News

Air-to-Air Missile

KAI plots KF-21’s first live-fire Meteor launch for 2024

4th December 2023

Korea Aerospace Industries’ (KAI’s) KF-21 Boramae fighter is the first non-West European platform to be integrated with MBDA’s Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM), and a first live-fire test launch has been planned for early 2024

Douglas C-47

Line-up announced for 2024 D-Day Squadron visit

4th December 2023

A provisional list of C-47 and DC-3 aircraft has been confirmed along with an itinerary for next year’s much anticipated tour

Aeroplane December 2023

What next for Lufthansa’s Starliner?

1st December 2023

Classic Lockheed propliner moved to storage in Hamburg — but where will it end up on display?

Aeroplane January 2024

Surprise return to Duxford for MS505

1st December 2023

French-built Fieseler Storch comes back to former base after more than four decades

Aeroplane January 2024

Solent Sky saves One-Eleven

1st December 2023

Forward fuselage of ex-British Airways airliner and QinetiQ testbed arrives at Southampton museum

Airbus Defence and Space

Spanish Typhoon testbed supports Sniper pod trials

1st December 2023

The Spanish Air and Space Force is currently using its Eurofighter EF-2000 Instrumented Production Aircraft 4 (IPA4) to support a flight test campaign focusing on the integration of Lockheed Martin’s AN/AAQ-33 Sniper advanced targeting pod onto the Typhoon fleets employed by the air arms of Kuwait and Qatar

Army Flying Museum

Army Flying Museum announces new partnership

1st December 2023

The Army Flying Museum at Middle Wallop in Hampshire is entering a new relationship with global engineering giant GKN Aerospace

Electric Aircraft

Electric record-breaker becomes museum-piece

30th November 2023

Science Museum gets unique Spirit of Innovation

North American P-51 Mustang

P-51 airborne from its old base, 66 years on

30th November 2023

Ex-Royal New Zealand Air Force Mustang makes maiden post-restoration flight

Acquisitions

Germany orders more P-8A Poseidons

30th November 2023

The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag released €1.1bn of additional funding for the procurement of three more P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) for the German Navy on November 16

Aircraft Deliveries

Cyprus transfers remaining Mi-35P gunships to Serbia

30th November 2023

The Cyprus National Guard has recently transferred its 11 surviving Mi-35P Hind-F attack helicopters to the Serbian Armed Forces

AEW&C

Brazilian Air Force gains fifth modernised E-99M

30th November 2023

Embraer Defense & Security announced it had handed over its fifth modernised EMB 145-based E-99M AEW&C aircraft to the Brazilian Air Force on November 23, marking an important milestone for the upgrade programme as it saw the first aircraft delivered in its Full Operational Capability configuration

Piper L-4 Cub

Danish Army Piper prepared for flight

30th November 2023

The Aeronautical Activity Center Avedoere just south of Copenhagen has finished a superb, nine-year restoration

Dassault Mirage 2000-5

French Mirage 2000-5Fs deploy for fifth Baltic Air Policing mission

29th November 2023

For the fifth time since the initiative’s inception in 2004, Mirage 2000-5Fs from the French Air and Space Force have once again deployed to Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, where they will support NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission from December 1