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Airbus

First Airbus A320neo for Vietnam Airlines

20th August 2024

Vietnam Airlines has taken delivery of its maiden Airbus A320neo, the first of three examples it will receive this year.

Australia

Norse Atlantic completes first Norway to Australia non-stop flight

20th August 2024

Norse Atlantic Airways has completed the first ever direct flight between Norway and Australia, a trip covering approximately 14,730km (9,153 miles).

Boeing

EL AL seals its largest ever aircraft order

20th August 2024

EL AL Israel Airlines has confirmed its largest aircraft purchase in its 76-year history, finalising an order for up to 31 Boeing 737 MAXs.

Airbus

New look for TAAG Angola Airlines

20th August 2024

TAAG Angola Airlines will showcase a new livery on its incoming Airbus A220s and Boeing 787 Dreamliners.

Aviation News September 2024

First Boeing 777F for Maersk Air Cargo

20th August 2024

Maersk Air Cargo took delivery of its first brand-new Boeing 777F on July 12 at the manufacturer’s facility in Seattle.

Belgium

More info on deployments for Exercises Steadfast Noon and Strike Warrior

19th August 2024

Key.Aero can exclusively reveal more details about the upcoming Exercises Steadfast Noon and Strike Warrior.

Denmark

EXCLUSIVE: Nuclear Exercise Steadfast Noon participants revealed

16th August 2024

Exercise Steadfast Noon, NATO’s annual nuclear deterrence exercise, is being held over October 14 to 24, 2024 and is being run alongside Exercise Strike Warrior.

Aeroplane August 2024

Messerschmitt Bf 110 restoration progressing in Norway

15th August 2024

Forty years after it was salvaged from a crash site near Båtsfjord in Finnmark county, northern Norway, the long-term restoration of Messerschmitt Bf 110 F-2 Werknummer 5096 is progressing at the Flyhistorisk Museum at Stavanger-Sola.

Aeroplane August 2024

B-17 Flying Fortress Yankee Lady changes hands

15th August 2024

On 5 June at Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, the Michigan Flight Museum — known as the Yankee Air Museum before a rebrand in early May — announced the sale of its flagship flight experience aeroplane, Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 44-85829/N3193G, following 38 years of ownership.

FlyPast September 2024

New arrivals at museums in Poland

15th August 2024

The Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego in Kraków has received former police Mil Mi-8 SN-40XP/A-016 which now sits alongside a PZL Kania, another ex-police helicopter.

FlyPast September 2024

New two-seat Spitfire takes to the air

15th August 2024

Aero Legends’ Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXT MJ444/G-LEGD Lady Luck made a debut post-restoration flight in the hands of John Romain on June 6.

Antonov

Ukraine gains ex-Croatian Antonov An-32 Clines

14th August 2024

In late 2023, unofficial sources reported that two retired An-32B Cline transport aircraft from the Croatian Air Force (CroAF) had been formally transferred to Ukraine, based on a decision made by Zagreb to donate the airlifters to the war-torn country, writes Vladimir Trendafilovski

Combat Aircraft Journal September 2024

TaktLwG 73 EF-2000 marks new milestones

14th August 2024

The Luftwaffe’s Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 73 (TaktLwG 73; Tactical Air Force Wing 73) ‘Steinhoff’ has rolled out special tail art on one of its EF-2000s to mark three milestones achieved by the unit and Germany’s wider Eurofighter force.

Boeing

Final KC-46A Pegasus for McGuire delivered

14th August 2024

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has received its 24th Boeing KC-46A Pegasus, the final example of the tanker-transport destined to serve with the wings that operate from the site.