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The independent regional airline is adding new routes and frequencies between October and December, bringing its new Embraer E195-E2 and Business Class product to more
The European Next Generation Rotorcraft programme, backed by 12 EU member states and a 53-member consortium, aims to fly a NATO-oriented helicopter design by the
Announced at NBAA-BACE 2026, the roadmap promises major speed upgrades for HDX and FDX customers while preserving existing installations and Supplemental Type Certificates. Gogo outlined
The aircraft will be converted by Northrop Grumman into the Navy’s next-generation TACAMO airborne nuclear command and control platform. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered a
A new partnership with Hadrian and a $300 million facility expansion in Grand Prairie are expected to create 6,000 jobs across the United States, including
The order, the largest in ACG’s nearly 40-year history, takes the lessor’s total historical A320neo Family order to 190 aircraft. Aviation Capital Group LLC (ACG),
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
Cargo and aircraft movements also reached record levels last year, but ACI’s 2026 Annual World Airport Traffic Report finds growth cooling sharply this year amid geopolitical and economic headwinds. Airports Council International (ACI) World says global airports carried a record
1986 – República de Moçambique Tupolev Tu-134A-3, C9-CAA, c/n 63457, with crew of nine and 35 passengers, crashes on approach at 2121 hrs. to Maputo International Airport (MPM/FQMA), Mozambique after flight from Mbala Airport (MMQ), Zambia, killing eight crew and 26 passengers, including Mozambique President Samora Machel who had attended a meeting of African leaders in Zambia. While approaching Maputo, an inadvertent selection of the MATSAPA VOR frequency caused the crew to execute a premature 37-degrees turn. Although the pilot queried the turn, no effort was made to verify it by using the available navigational aids. The aircraft descended below the 3000 feet limit in spite of not having visual contact with Maputo. The crew erroneously assumed a power failure at Maputo. A 32-second GPWS warning was ignored and the aircraft collided with the ground at 2187 feet, bounced and crashed into an uphill slope. The aircraft broke up, slid across the South African/Swaziland border and caught fire.
1977 – Concorde made its first landing in New York City and for New Yorkers, it was love at 1st sight!
1970 – Hindustan Aeronautics completes its first licence-built MiG-21
1968 – USAF test pilot Major William “Pete” Knight wins the Harmon international aviator’s trophy for “exceptional individual piloting performance”.
1964 – First flight of the Agusta A.101
1954 – First flying prototype Grumman XF9F-9 Tiger, BuNo 138604, suffers flame-out, the pilot, Lt. Cdr. W. H. Livingston, was able to put it down on the edge of a wood near the Grumman company runway at Bethpage, Long Island, New York, escaping with minor injuries. Airframe written-off. Production models will be redesignated F11F.
1933 – Fokker Y1O-27, 31-601, ’22’, of the 32d Bombardment Squadron, Rockwell Field, California, during ferry flight from Rockwell to Brooks Field, Texas,
pilot Capt. Albert F. Hegenberger, on leg between Tucson, Arizona and Midland, Texas, loses Prestone coolant out of starboard engine, engine temperature rises so he shuts it down.Forced down five miles short of Midland Airport, pilot does not get the landing gear completely locked down, collapses on touch down. Aircraft repaired.
1932 – First flight of the Mitsubishi 3MT5
1931 – Sole Lockheed-Detroit YP-24, 32-320, crashes during tests at Wright Field, Ohio. During evaluation flight, landing gear extension system fails with gear only partly deployed when in-cockpit crank handle breaks off. Through a series of violent maneuvers, test pilot Lt. Harrison Crocker managed to get the gear retracted and was planning to attempt a belly-landing, but upon orders from the ground, sent aloft written on the sides of Boeing P-12D And Douglas O-25C aircraft, he bails out. Four Y1P-24 pre-production models cancelled due to Detroit Aircraft’s shaky financial situation. Two will be built as Consolidated Y1P-25s after Detroit’s chief designer Robert Wood joins that firm. Second Y1P-25 completed with a supercharger as Y1A-11.
1917 – Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1917 – Imperial German Navy Zeppelin LZ50 L 16, damaged beyond repair in a forced landing near Brunsbüttel.
1911 – Eugene Ely dies in an aircrash.
1911 – Aviation pioneer Bob Fowler flies from San Francisco to Jacksonville, Florida. The west to east coast-to-coast journey has taken almost four months to complete (Arrival Date Feb 12, 1912).
1908 – First flight of the Antoinette IV
1901 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his dirigible Number 6 around the Eiffel Tower to collect a FF100,000 prize.
