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The Airbus Helicopters H160 receives EASA approval

Airbus Helicopters’ multi-role twin engine helicopter H160 has been granted its type certificate by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), marking a new chapter for the programme. The company is expe... Read More...

Boeing delivers 2500th AH-64 Apache attack helicopter

Boeing recently delivered its 2,500th AH-64 Apache helicopter, an E-model Apache for the U.S. Army, from the company’s production line in Mesa, Arizona. The first production AH-64, an A-model Apache, rolled ... Read More...

Airbus delivers first A330 MRTT to NATO Multinational Multi Role Tanker Transport Fleet

Airbus has formally delivered the first of eight Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft ordered by the NATO Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) after a ceremony held at the Airbus Getafe site in Spa... Read More...

Royal Air Force Typhoons join key German Air Force exercise

Typhoons fighters from RAF Coningsby have this week taken part in a major German Air Force exercise over the southern North Sea. In a sign of the growing relationship between two key European NATO Allies, th... Read More...

Airbus signs contract for integration of 115 new Eurofighter Captor-E scan radars

Airbus has been awarded a contract for the development, supply and integration of 115 Eurofighter ESCAN Radars for the German and Spanish Eurofighter fleet. It marks the so far largest order for the world’s mos... Read More...

US Air Force B-2s fly north of Arctic Circle, integrate with Norwegian F-35s

B-2 Spirit stealth bombers from the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, conducted integration and interoperability training with Norwegian F-35s during a long-range, long duration strategic ... Read More...

US Navy test squadrons receive Next-Gen Super Hornet this month

The Navy is welcoming its next-generation multi-mission tactical fighter by taking delivery of the first Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet test jets this month, as part of its continuing effort to improve aircraft ... Read More...

First F-35C, Lightning II Class Graduates TOPGUN

Pilots from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 125 “Rough Raiders” and VFA-147 “Argonauts” were the first TOPGUN students to complete the course in the F-35C Lightning II. Maj. Derek Heinz from the Rough Raiders and... Read More...

M-345 italian Leonardo’s new training aircraft certified and ready for the global market

Leonardo is pleased to announce that the DAAA (Directorate for Air Armaments and Airworthiness), the Italian Ministry of Defence’s Certification Authority, has issued the "Initial Certification" for Leonardo's ... Read More...

Spain, France and UK take up Baltic air policing second 2020 rotation

Spain, France and the United Kingdom will take up NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission starting in May, guarding the skies over the Baltic region for the next four months. The three NATO Allies are replacing a... Read More...

Alaska’s North Slope Borough now flies a Piltaus PC-24 air ambulance

Operated by the North Slope Borough Search and Rescue Department (SAR) in the northernmost region of the United States, the PC-24 provides basic medical care for 9,800 residents across a territory of 95,000 squ... Read More...

USMC makes first operational flight in Middle East with MQ-9A

On March 20, 2020, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) pilots and sensor operators from Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1 (VMU-1) conducted their first operational flight of an MQ-9A Reaper Unmanned Aircraft Syste... Read More...

Airbus achieves world’s first fully automatic refuelling contacts with A3R system

Airbus has achieved the first ever fully automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R - Automatic Air-to-Air Refuelling) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the year over the At... Read More...

Qatar Emiri Air Force’s first F-15 Advanced Jet completes successful first flight

U.S. Department of Defense awarded Boeing a $6.2 billion contract in 2017 to manufacture 36 F-15 fighter jets for the QEAF

Boeing successfully completed the first flight of the F-15QA fighter, the most advanced version of the jet ever manufactured. Developed for the Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF), the jet demonstrated its next-genera... Read More...

Babcock provides dedicated Beech 200 air ambulance for swedish Covid-19 patients

Babcock’s team at Scandinavian Air Ambulance have refitted one of their Beech 200 aircraft into a dedicated COVID-19 air ambulance to help relieve intensive care departments in Sweden. Babcock has been assis... Read More...

Luxembourg Armed Forces A400M makes its maiden flight

The Airbus A400M new-generation airlifter ordered by the Luxembourg Armed Forces has made its maiden flight, marking a key milestone towards its delivery. The aircraft, known as MSN104, took off from Seville (S... Read More...

Airbus adapts aircraft production rates in COVID-19 environment as update on March commercial aircraft orders & deliveries

After a solid commercial and industrial performance at the beginning of the year, Airbus (stock exchange symbol: AIR) is now revising its production rates downwards to adapt to the new Coronavirus market enviro... Read More...

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