Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
The Long Beach start-up has secured a senior secured term loan of up to $100 million, led by Pinegrove Credit Partners and Silicon Valley Bank,
Azul Linhas Aéreas has taken delivery of Embraer’s 2,000th E-Jet, an E195-E2 that is also the airline’s 50th E2, as the two-decade-old programme consolidates its
The Nasdaq-listed defence contractor has been awarded an Other Transaction Agreement by the US Space Force to develop scalable sensor technology for detecting and tracking
Boeing has delivered the final three satellites, F11, F12 and F13, in SES’s 13-strong O3b mPOWER constellation, completing a medium-Earth-orbit network designed to deliver low-latency
AS EGYPT TARGETS 30 MILLION TOURISTS A YEAR BY 2030, KLASJET ARGUES THAT AIRLINES CAN USE ACMI CAPACITY ALONGSIDE PERMANENT FLEETS TO MANAGE SEASONAL DEMAND,
ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS AND AIRBUS HAVE SIGNED A FLIGHT TRAINING AGREEMENT THAT WILL PLACE ANA GROUP AND PARTNER AIRLINE CADETS INTO AN AB-INITIO PROGRAMME AT
The Rand Airport Airshow returned on Sunday 30 August 2026 for the first time since 2023, bringing aerobatic displays, historic aircraft and flying school exhibits back to one of South Africa’s oldest airfields, with Essential Fuels as headline sponsor. FIRST
Boeing forecasts that commercial aviation will need 674,000 new pilots over the next two decades, yet competition for entry-level First Officer positions remains intense. Industry figures interviewed by BAA Training argue the contradiction is not real: the shortage is a
An analysis by Texas Christian University’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation finds that American Airlines’ hub at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport supports around $70 billion in annual economic output and an estimated 350,000 jobs across North Texas, and identifies
2009 – BA CityFlyer accepts delivery of its first Embraer 170.
1989 – Varig Flight 254, a Boeing 737, runs out of fuel because of incorrect navigation and crashes in the Brazilian jungle, killing 13 of the 54 people on board.
1982 – First flight of the Beechcraft 1900
1981 – McDonnell Douglas delivers the 1,000th DC-9 produced; it was ordered by Swissair.
1981 – First flight of the British Aerospace 146
1978 – Air Rhodesia Flight 825 from Kariba to Salisbury is shot down by a SA-7 surface-to-air missile; eighteen of the fifty-six passengers initially survive the emergency landing, 10 are subsequently killed by Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army militants.
1970 – Air France places the first orders for the Airbus A300.
1955 – J. S. Fairfield makes the first ejection from an aircraft on the ground, escaping from a Gloster Meteor traveling at 120 mph (193 km/h) along a runway.
1953 – First flight of the Pilatus P-3.
1939 – The United Kingdom and France declare war on Germany.
1934 – Fokker Y1O-27, 31-599, of the 12th Observation Squadron, Brooks Field, Texas, crashes 5 miles W of Danville, Louisiana after starboard engine loses power. Pilot Cadet Neil M. Caldwell and passenger Pvt. Betz Baker die in crash and fire, passenger Pvt. Virgil K. Martin, riding in rear cockpit, survives with minor injuries. This aircraft has previously ditched in San Diego Bay, California on 16 December 1932.
1932 – Jimmy Doolittle sets a new landplane airspeed record of 296 mph (476 km/h) in the Gee Bee R-1
1930 – Ford National Reliability Air Tour finishes in Chicago. Harry Russell takes first place, and Eddie August Schneider finishes in eighth place, but wins the Great Lakes Trophy.
1925 – U.S. Navy airship, USS Shenandoah ZR-1, crashed after encountering thunderstorms near Ava, Ohio after an in flight break up due to cloud suck about 0445 hrs. Fourteen of 43 aboard are killed. The ship’s commanding officer, Lt. Cdr. Zachery Lansdowne is killed on what was to have been his final flight before reassignment to sea duty.
1925 – The Spanish Navy aviation ship Dédalo, the only ship ever built capable of operating airships, balloons, and seaplanes, accompanies a Spanish fleet to Morocco to participate in the Rif War. Her aircraft and one of the airships she operates support the Spanish campaign to capture Ajir, which falls on October 2. She is the only European aviation ship to see combat between the end of the Russian Civil War and the beginning of World War II.
1924 – Regular airmail service in Canada began with flights between Ontario and Quebec.
1915 – First Canadian-built twin engined aircraft, the Curtis Canada, was flown at Long Branch.
1908 – Seeking a contract to build the United States Army’s first airplane, Orville Wright begins flight trials before Army observers at Fort Myer, Virginia, in a new Wright Model A flyer. The flight lasts 1 min 11 seconds.
