Toulouse – 17 July 2018 — ATR reached an important step today with the delivery of the 1,000th ATR 72 turboprop. Sporting the livery of the Indian airline Indigo, India’s #1 commercial carrier, this delivery marks the unmatched superiority of the Franco-Italian on the world market, an aircraft which is…
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Toulouse / Mirabel, 10 July 2018 – Airbus has revealed its new A220 family at a ceremony held at its Henri-Ziegler Delivery Centre, near Toulouse, France. Witnessed by Airbus employees and members of the global news media, the Bombardier C-series CS300 now transformed into the Airbus A220-300 landed directly from…
Madrid, Spain, 21 December 2017 — An Airbus A400M has successfully refuelled six Spanish Air Force Boeing (Northrop) F-18 Hornet fighters in a single mission as part of an air-to-air refuelling (AAR) human factors certification flight. The 13 December mission, using one of the two Spanish A400M test aircraft, featured…
12 December 2017 – Palanquero, Colombia — Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) today marked the completion of the upgrading of Kfir airplanes for the Colombian Air force. At a ceremony held today at CACOM 1 (Comando Aéro de Combate N°1) air base in Palanquero, Cundinamarca, the number one fighter base of…
Brest, France, 27 November 2017 – Thales teams in Brest (Finistère) are proud to announce the completion of the 500th FLASH sonar system (Folding Light Acoustic System for Helicopters). Thales started the development of the lightweight anti-submarine warfare (ASW) sonar for helicopters in the 1990s, since when the product has…
Dubai, UAE, 12 November 2017 — One of the surprise military highlights of the recent Dubai Air Show is certainly the all black B-250 powered by a single 1,600 shp Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-68 turboprop engine showcased for the first time in public by the Abu Dhabi-based Calidus aerospace…
Philadelphia, USA, 14 November 2017 – Boeing and Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. announced the Bell Boeing V-22 fleet of tiltrotor aircraft, including both CV-22 and MV-22 variants, has surpassed the 400,000 flight hour milestone. The V-22 Osprey has been continuously deployed since entering service ten years ago in 2007 with…
Toulouse, France, 19 October 2017 — The first Airbus A330neo took off this morning from Toulouse-Blagnac airport at 09.57 hrs local time, for its maiden flight taking place over south-western France. The aircraft, MSN1795, is an A330-900 and the first of three certification flight-test aircraft to fly, powered by the…
Madrid, Colombia, 30 September 2017 — With over 660 aircraft produced between 1980 and 1996 (504 by Embraer and 160 by Short Brothers), the EMB-312 or T-27 Tucano is certainly one of the most successful Brazilian military aerospace programmes and one that has contributed to make Embraer famous on the international…
Madrid, Spain, 7 September 2017 — Airbus Defence and Space has today successfully completed the maiden flight of the first A330 MRTT Multi Role Tanker Transport for the French Air Force. The aircraft, which will be known in French service as “Phénix”, is the first of nine ordered by the…