Rolls-Royce has played an important role in the development of Australia and New Zealand’s civil and military aviation for some 90 years. Today in excess of 1,700 Rolls-Royce gas turbine aero engines are in service, or on order, throughout the region.
We are also a leading supplier of advanced propulsion, motion control, winching and maintenance systems for commercial shipping and naval vessels. Additionally, we are party to various through-life and maintenance support contracts across all business sectors.
Headquartered in Sydney, the company also has offices in Canberra, Perth, Melbourne and Auckland, with additional engineering and field service offices at major airline and defence force establishments.
Rolls-Royce has recently expanded activity in the Marine sector in both countries through supplies to the commercial and naval marine fleets. In the Energy sector we supply gas turbine engines for power generation and oil and gas production.
We also operate field service offices in Melbourne and Auckland. We employ approximately 140 personnel in the region.
Civil Aerospace
- Qantas operate the RB-211 engine on many of their aircraft. The Rolls-Royce Trent 900 powers the new Airbus A380 aircraft and entered into service with Qantas in late 2008, the first of 20 aircraft to be supplied.
- The Qantas Group’s low cost carrier Jetstar’s (and subsidiary Jetstar Asia) fleet are powered by our IAE partnership V2500 engines.
- Our BR715 engines power the Qantas Link Boeing 717s. A number of regional airlines, such as Skywest’s Fokker F-100s are being equipped with Tay engines.
- A number of regional and Pacific airlines (e.g. QantasLink, SkyWest, Air Niugini and Air Calédonie International) use our engines.
- Air New Zealand also operate Trent 800's and V2500 engines. The airline has selected the Trent 1000 for its new B787s; both are supported by TotalCare packages.
Defence Aerospace
- Rolls-Royce has powered Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircraft since the formation of the Service in 1921.
- Today around half of the installed engines in both the Australian and New Zealand Defence Forces are supplied by Rolls-Royce.
- The Rolls-Royce and Turbomeca partnership gas turbine engines power the Australian Army’s new fleet of Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters. The partnership also supplies engines to the Royal Australian Navy and Australian Army MRH-90 multi-role helicopters and the New Zealand equivalent NH90 helicopters.
- We also support the regional commercial helicopter fleets and our Model 250 engines are also widely used by a variety of commercial helicopters.
Marine
- Rolls-Royce products are extensively used and supported in most Royal Australian Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy ships; in particular the ANZAC Ship Class.
- We supply a range of integrated material support services to the RAN for their Amphibious and Afloat Support System Program Office, with support from our partner Kellogg, Brown and Root.
- Many commercial operators and fishing enterprises use our deck machinery and propulsion equipment on their ocean-going vessels, tugs and fishing boats.
- High speed ferry designer and builder Austal Limited is a major customer for our Kamewa water-jets for their domestic and international export business.
- We have a marine diesel engine overhaul facility in Port Melbourne, and a Marine head office and engineering staff in Fremantle, providing a range of comprehensive product support and marine engineering services to our regional customers.
Energy
- We are a key supplier of gas turbines for oil and gas off-shore power generation and gas compression in the region.
- We supply and support aero-derivative gas turbine engines and electrical generator packages for a range of customers including Woodside, BHP, Rio Tinto and INPEX.
