Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The Al Ueltschi Award for Humanitarian Leadership recognises the pair’s collaboration on training and resources to help aviation professionals identify and report trafficking. The National
The airframer’s 2026 Cargo Global Market Forecast points to 2,670 new freighters needed over the next two decades, split between new-build aircraft and passenger-to-freighter conversions.
The more than 100 million euro investment will grow the Hannover site past 110,000 square metres and add widebody engine shop-visit capacity, including for the
The renewed Component Support Agreement underpins the performance and availability of Australia’s largest E190 fleet, which Alliance Airlines has operated since 2021. Embraer and Alliance
TCE, which describes its approach as Total Cargo Management (TCM), said it continues to manage the cargo operations of leisure carrier TUI Airline under an
What began with a thrice-weekly Dubai-Hong Kong-Manila service via Kai Tak Airport in 1991 has grown into three daily flights and a dedicated local Travel
The airline’s South Africa country lead points to digital convenience, personalisation and sustainability as the forces reshaping how people choose to fly. As South Africa observes Transport Month in October, Cathay Pacific said evolving traveller expectations around convenience, personalisation and
As more-electric aircraft add avionics, sensors and power electronics, engineers are rethinking cooling as a design decision rather than an afterthought, Honeywell says. Every electrical system added to an aircraft increases the heat that must be managed, and Honeywell Aerospace
An Air New Zealand DHC-8 Q300 descended to 1,022 feet above ground approaching Timaru at night in June 2023 before the crew recovered and landed safely; the Transport Accident Investigation Commission’s final report also found shortcomings in the regulator’s own
2009 – Slovakian airline Seagle Air ceases operations.
2009 – An Indian Air Force Mikoyan MiG-27 Flogger D/J flying from the Hasimara Air Force Base, Eastern Air Command crashes near New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. The aircraft on a routine training exercise suffers a technical fault and an on-board engine fire shortly after take-off. After a successful ejection the pilot parachutes into a nearby tea estate and the aircraft crashes into a nearby river bank injuring two children.
2007 – Space Shuttle Discovery STS-120 launches at 15:38:19 UTC. Mission highlights (ISS assembly flight 10A): US Harmony module, crew rotation.
2003 – Concorde makes its final commercial flight from London Heathrow to New York JFK as Speedbird Concorde 1. It was to return the next day as Speedbird Concorde 2 to land in sequence with two other Concordes on Heathrow’s runway 27 right.
2003 – AH-64D Apache 00-5219 (ex AH-64A 86-8972) from 1–101st Aviation Regiment crashes in Iraq while approaching to land at Kirkuk. The APU clutch failed and started a fire in flight. Aircraft landed safely but fuselage was almost completely burnt through.[1]
1987 – The last F-104 Starfighter is phased out of West German Luftwaffe service.
1977 – (Oct. 26-31) A Pan American World Airways Boeing 747SP circumnavigates the world over the two poles.
1967 – First flight of the Canadair CL-215
1962 – A USAF Boeing C-135B-BN Stratolifter, 62-4136, c/n 18476/C42, of the Military Air Transport Service, delivering a load of ammunition from McGuire AFB, New Jersey, to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, as part of the military response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, stalls and crashes short of the runway, killing all seven crew. This was the first cargo C-135 hull loss.
1952 – First flight of the Hughes XH-17
1945 – The last of 10,174 military DC-3/C-47 transport aircraft built by Douglas is handed over to the U.S. Army Air Forces.
1944 – First flight of the Nakajima G8N
1943 – First flight of the Vickers Windsor
1943 – 45 Fifth Air Force B-24 Liberators raid Rabaul, escorted by 47 P-38 Lightnings.
1939 – First flight of the Mitsubishi G4M
1934 – Francesco Agello sets a new airspeed record in the Macchi MC.72, of 709 km/h (440 mph).
1929 – The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
1923 – First flight of the Handley Page Hyderabad
1911 – First use of aircraft in war as an Italian pilot takes off from Libya to observe Turkish army lines during the Turco-Italian War.
1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont wins the Archdeacon prize as he flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France a distance of 60 m (197 ft).
