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European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher will use the International Space Summit in Paris on 9 and 10 September to ask European leaders how far they want to go in shaping the next era of space exploration, ahead of a funding decision in Rome in December. PARIS SUMMIT SETS UP A DECEMBER FUNDING DECISION […]
The largest Part 141 flight school in the United States has added two Tecnam P2006T twin-engine aircraft to bolster multi-engine training capacity for its roughly 600 active students. TWO NEW TWINS JOIN THE LARGEST PART 141 SCHOOL’S FLEET Epic Flight Academy, a Florida-based flight school founded in 1999 and recognised as the largest Part
EPIC FLIGHT ACADEMY ADDS TWO TECNAM P2006T TWINS TO MULTI-ENGINE FLEETRead More »
Emirates says its newly delivered Airbus A350s will carry the first electrically powered Premium Economy seat with a full-height privacy divider between every pair, debuting on daily services to Entebbe, Tunis and Cape Town. AFRICAN ROUTES AMONG THE FIRST TO GET THE NEW CABIN Emirates has introduced a new electrically powered Premium Economy seat
EMIRATES INTRODUCES ELECTRIC PREMIUM ECONOMY SEAT, DEBUTING ON THREE AFRICAN ROUTESRead More »
Lockheed Martin is sponsoring the GoAERO prize competition for autonomy-enabled emergency-response aircraft, a commitment the company frames against the flight record of its Sikorsky MATRIX autonomy system and its EMBERPOINT wildfire response venture. SPONSORSHIP BACKED BY A GROWING AUTONOMY TRACK RECORD Lockheed Martin is sponsoring the GoAERO prize competition, funding its planning, logistics and
LOCKHEED MARTIN SPONSORS GOAERO EMERGENCY-RESPONSE FLYER COMPETITIONRead More »
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association’s second-quarter report shows business jet and turboprop shipments both up more than seven percent in the first six months of 2026, with total airplane billings climbing to $14.3 billion. BUSINESS JETS AND TURBOPROPS LEAD A MIXED FIRST HALF GAMA has published its Second Quarter 2026 General Aviation Aircraft Shipment
GENERAL AVIATION SHIPMENTS AND BILLINGS RISE IN FIRST HALF OF 2026, GAMA REPORTSRead More »
ExecuJet MRO Services Middle East has completed a full cabin refurbishment and exterior livery repaint on an Embraer Legacy 650 at its Dubai facility, work the company says reflects the region’s growing capacity to keep this class of project in-house rather than sending it overseas. FULL REFURBISHMENT COMPLETED AT DUBAI FACILITY ExecuJet MRO Services
EXECUJET COMPLETES FULL CABIN REFURBISHMENT ON EMBRAER LEGACY 650 IN DUBAIRead More »
ANA Holdings has signed for eight additional Embraer E190-E2 aircraft, formalising an expansion first announced in July and taking the Japanese group’s firm E2 order to 23 aircraft, with five options still open. ANA DEEPENS ITS E190-E2 COMMITMENT AS JAPANESE REGIONAL FLEET GROWS Embraer and ANA Holdings Inc. have signed an agreement for eight
ANA HOLDINGS FIRMS UP ORDER FOR EIGHT MORE EMBRAER E190-E2S, LIFTING TOTAL TO 23Read More »
Harris Aerial, Skyline Nav AI and UtopiaCompression took the show’s annual pitch competition on day one of Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas, while the opening keynote’s State of the Industry Survey found most operators still reliant on foreign-made hardware and largely unprepared for the FAA’s incoming Part 108 beyond-visual-line-of-sight rule. PITCH THE PRESS WINNERS
COMMERCIAL UAV EXPO OPENS WITH PITCH THE PRESS WINS AND A STARK PART 108 READINESS GAPRead More »
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 AIRSHOW AT THE GERMISTON AIRFIELD SINCE 2023 The Rand Airport Airshow returned to Rand
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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 fast-moving threats, part of the service’s space superiority and space control effort. SPACE FORCE TURNS TO LEONARDO DRS FOR SENSOR PROTOTYPE WORK Leonardo DRS has been awarded an Other
LEONARDO DRS WINS US SPACE FORCE PROTOTYPE CONTRACT FOR THREAT-TRACKING SENSORSRead More »
