Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Boeing, WZL-1 and WCBKT have signed offset implementation agreements establishing in-country maintenance, repair and overhaul capability for Poland’s 96 AH-64E Apache helicopters. Poland is the nineteenth nation to operate the type and will become the largest operator after the United States. NINETY-SIX AIRCRAFT AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUSTAIN THEM Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze Nr 1 […]
Joby Aviation has agreed to acquire Dayton-based Resonant Sciences for approximately $500 million, adding a business with more than $100 million in trailing revenue, roughly 40 per cent annual growth and positive EBITDA. Resonant will become Joby’s dedicated defence unit, allowing the commercial organisation to stay focused on certifying its air taxi. BUYING REVENUE, CLEARANCES
Charlie Trimble, who founded Trimble in 1978 and brought the world’s first commercially viable GPS receiver to market six years later, will receive the American Geographical Society’s O.M. Miller Cartographic Medal, in recognition for the commercialisation of a technology that now underpins satellite navigation and approach guidance across aviation. A COMMERCIAL BET ON AN EXPERIMENTAL
Brazil’s ANAC has issued a Supplemental Type Certificate for the Universal Avionics InSight integrated flight display system on the Cessna Citation VII, joining FAA, TCCA and EASA approvals. The retrofit replaces obsolete CRT displays and can shed up to 200 lb, in an upgrade path aimed at keeping ageing aircraft viable in modern airspace. CERTIFICATION
Rolls-Royce has selected Melbourne-based Marand Precision Engineering, following a competitive international tender, to build three additional gas turbine acoustic enclosures for the Type 26 Global Combat Ship programme, extending an Australian firm from domestic supply into export. The company has simultaneously opened a regional Defence headquarters in Canberra, inaugurated by the Deputy Prime Minister. FROM
The national carrier of the Solomon Islands will deploy Maureva’s MARGO Cargo Management System across air waybill management and cargo revenue accounting, in an agreement that originated not from a sales approach but from a referral by AIRWAY, an Australian ground handling company and existing MARGO user. AN INTEGRATED PLATFORM FROM DOCUMENT ISSUANCE TO FINANCIAL
Buenos Aires flight academy BA FLIGHT has taken delivery of the first Tecnam P2006T NG SPORT in Argentina, adding a twin to a training fleet built on P2002 and P2008 light sport aircraft and giving students a single-manufacturer progression from ab initio through multi-engine. A FLEET BUILT FOR CONTINUITY RATHER THAN VARIETY Tecnam has
Airlink will place its code on Qatar Airways-operated flights from 31 August 2026, adding Doha as the first long-haul destination in its 34-year history. The arrangement reciprocates a codeshare that has run one way since 2022 and builds on the 25 per cent shareholding Qatar Airways acquired in the South African carrier in 2024. A
Specialist regional lessor TrueNoord has delivered an Embraer E195LR to Air Montenegro on a five-year operating lease. The aircraft, MSN 19000471, arrived in late July and has entered service on intra-European routes from the carrier’s Podgorica base. RIGHT-SIZED CAPACITY FOR A DEVELOPING FLAG CARRIER TrueNoord has delivered an Embraer E195LR to Air Montenegro on
Jetstar will remove its 7kg carry-on weight limit from 2 February 2027, replacing it with a size-based model in which every fare includes one underseat bag and overhead locker access becomes a paid Priority Carry-on product starting at A$25 one-way. Gate weighing will end; a 10kg guideline remains for passengers to lift their own bags.
