Avteq

{{Short description|Australian locomotive manufacturer}}

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|name = Avteq

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|image = CFCLA-VL-class-VL355.jpg

|image_caption = Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia VL class locomotive in June 2008

|industry = Aviation
Manufacturing

|fate =

|foundation = 2002

|founder = Jed Macartney
Rob Powell

|defunct = 2013

|location_city = Sunshine, Victoria

|location_country = Australia

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|products = Locomotives

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Avteq was founded in 2002 by Jed Macartney and Rob Powell as an aviation consulting business.Avteq: Who in the world are they? Motive Power issue 49 December 2006 pages 56/57 In 2005 it diversified into locomotive manufacturing, producing 12 VL class locomotives for Chicago Freight Car Leasing Australia from a factory in Sunshine.The Allco / CFCLA Joint Venture VL Class Railway Digest April 2007 page 7New Locomotive Newsrail May 2007 page 156{{cite book|last=Oberg|first=Leon|title=Locomotives of Australia 1850s - 2010|date=2010|publisher=Rosenberg Publishing|isbn=9781921719011|page=438}}

Avteq designed a second locomotive class, but none were ever manufactured.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101113082510/http://avteq.net.au/products.html Avteq Products] Avteq The company was deregistered in 2013.[https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/faces/landing/panelSearch.jspx?searchText=101781257&searchType=OrgAndBusNm&_adf.ctrl-state=rco8hps06_15 Avteq Pty Ltd] Australian Securities & Investments Commission