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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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Boeing’s Loyal Wingman program achieves “Weight on Wheels” milestone

Boeing Australia recently achieved two more milestones on the Royal Australian Air Force’s Loyal Wingman – Advanced Development Program: weight on wheels and aircraft power on. The development milestones for... Read More...

Boeing delivers first CH-47F Chinook to Royal Netherlands Air Force

This is first of 20 CH-47F Chinooks to be delivered to RNLAF one of eight NATO nations to operate the heavy-lift helicopter

Boeing recently delivered the first CH-47F Chinook with an upgraded cockpit to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), continuing a track record of on-time deliveries to customers. The RNLAF will operate a fle... Read More...

Boeing awarded U.S. Navy contract modification for additional MQ-25 aircraft

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a contract modification for three additional MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling aircraft, bringing the total number of aircraft Boeing is manufacturing to seven. “We’re honored ... Read More...

VC-25B begins modification to create the next “Air Force One”

On February 25th, the VC-25B program began modification on the first of two Boeing 747-8 aircraft that will travel the globe representing the United States of America. VC-25B, the next “Air Force One,” is a pro... Read More...

Boeing Australia completes first Loyal Wingman fuselage

The Boeing Australia team recently completed major fuselage structural assembly for the first Loyal Wingman. The aircraft is one of three prototypes that will be developed as a part of the Loyal Wingman – Advan... Read More...

PC-24 business jet rough field certification campaign

The swiss business jet is now fully certified for operation on unpaved runways

Pilatus obtained certification for take-offs and landings on grass, wet earth and snow, making the PC-24 the world’s most flexible business jet ever. Pilatus has now obtained full rough field certification for ... Read More...

The Spanish Air Force buys Pilatus PC-21 training system including 24 aircraft

The Spanish Air Force, Ejército del Aire, is the third European air force to opt for the Swiss-produced PC-21 Next Generation Trainer. Pilatus has committed to delivering a total of 24 PC-21s to Spain. The sing... Read More...

Boeing and US Navy test the ability to link piloted and unmanned EA-18G Growlers

Test show ability of F/A-18 Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler pilots to remotely control fighter and attack platforms from the cockpit

Boeing and the U.S. Navy successfully flew two autonomously controlled EA-18G Growlers at Naval Air Station Patuxent River as unmanned air systems using a third Growler as a mission controller for the other two... Read More...

Gulf Helicopters launch customer for italian helicopter Leonardo AW-189K

Leonardo is strengthening its leading position in the super medium helicopter market by announcing the launch customer for the all new AW189K variant. Gulf Helicopters of Qatar, a major force in the offshore t... Read More...

New Boeing 777X completes successful first flight

The new Boeing 777X jetliner took to the skies today, entering the next phase of its rigorous test program. Based on the popular 777 and with proven technologies from the 787 Dreamliner, the 777X took off in fr... Read More...

ATTOL Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off & Landing: Airbus demonstrates first fully automatic vision-based take-off

Airbus has successfully performed the first fully automatic vision-based take-off using an Airbus Family test aircraft A350-1000 at Toulouse-Blagnac airport. The test crew comprising of two pilots, two flight t... Read More...

Italian Leonardo’s Falco Xplorer drone aicraft completes first flight

The new Falco Xplorer remotely piloted system offers strategic surveillance capabilities for military and civilian customers

Leonardo has announced the maiden flight of its new Falco Xplorer drone aircraft. Falco Xplorer S/N0001 took off from Trapani Air Force base on January 15, cruised over the Gulf of Trapani in a dedicated fly zo... Read More...