AAFCANS Online Ordering

Army and Air Force Canteen Service (AAFCANS) and operated from 1979 through to 1998 under this name. AAFCANS was officially established as a Prescribed Commonwealth Statutory Authority in 1981 answerable to the Chiefs of the Army and Air Force and Ministers for Defence, and was tasked to provide services to ADF members with profits sent back to the ADF through disbursements. AAFCANS provided services such as canteens, mobile food vans, snack bars, wholesale supply of alcohol to Messes and Clubs, vending, dry cleaning services, postal services, grocery stores, photography services, adventure wear stores and fuel. In 1998 through to 2011 AAFCANS adopted the new trading name of 'Frontline Defence Services'. In the period between 1996 and 2006, $6.2 million was provided in the form of disbursements to units and welfare trusts (this figure is 80% of Frontline's profit in that time). Disbursements were put on hold in 2006 to undertake significant and essential upgrades to AAFCANS facilities and services. During this time Frontline was also deployed to East Timor in an amenities support role. In 2012 the Canteen Service reverted to its earlier trading name AAFCANS. AAFCANS expanded its operations providing services to an additional 14 bases in NSW & VIC. AAFCANS now provides services to 33 Army bases, Air Forces bases and joint ADF facilities throughout Australia. The organisation directly operates facilities such as: canteens, bistros, taverns, kiosks, mobile food vans, transportable canteens, post offices, fuels stops, convenience stores and even a supermarket. Additional convenience services such as: hair dressers, barbers, financial institutions, dry cleaning services, post offices, mechanical services, photographers and adventure wear stores are provided by our Licensees. AAFCANS is committed to product and facility innovation and improvement and provides customers, our ADF members, with both a competitive & diverse range of products and conveniences services.