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Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) has completed the maiden test flight of its new compact C919 aircraft variant in Shanghai.

Southwest Airlines has added South Korea’s Air Premia as its latest international partner, continuing a rapid introduction of interline agreements intended to give the US carrier a broader global reach without launching its own long-haul service.

Boeing is only weeks away from gaining Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for its 737 MAX 7 aircraft, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Investigators found the Lufthansa 787’s nose-gear locking pin in its storage box after the aircraft collapsed at Frankfurt Airport.

It’s half-time for Airbus, with the release of its latest aircraft order and delivery figures providing a snapshot of its progress towards this year’s annual target.

Also essentially a military aircraft.

NORAD says it responded to more than a dozen aircraft incursions into FAA temporary flight restrictions in the New York and New Jersey region so far in June.

Two pilots were killed after a US-registered Gulfstream G200 crashed during an emergency landing attempt at La Romana Airport in the Dominican Republic.

Textron Aviation has flown the first Cessna Citation M2 Gen3 prototype, starting the flight-test program ahead of planned 2027 service entry.

Airbus has told some of its A350 customers to expect delivery delays as the planemaker wrestles with supply chain issues, according to Reuters.

China has confirmed an order with Boeing for 200 commercial aircraft following the recent summit between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump.

Dramatic video shows two US Navy EA-18G Growlers collide during an Idaho airshow as four crew members ejected and were reported in stable condition.

While the airports collectively handled 324 million passengers in 2025, equivalent to 540,000 passengers daily, this fell to 97,000 per day.

A security camera image appears to show a United Boeing 767-400 hitting a truck while approaching Newark Airport’s Runway 29.

The measure applies to aircraft with a gross weight of 12,499 pounds or less operating under Part 91. It prohibits airports from using ADS-B information to calculate, generate or collect fees tied to landings, including touch-and-go operations, or fees based on an aircraft entering a specified radius of airport airspace.

The order comes during the 40th anniversary year since the P.180’s first flight. The Avanti has remained unusual in the business aviation market because it combines turboprop engines with a pusher-propeller layout, a forward wing and a main wing mounted toward the rear of the fuselage. That configuration gives the aircraft jet-like cruise performance while retaining turboprop operating efficiency.

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Boeing is hiring more than 100 factory workers a week as it staffs a fourth 737 MAX production line and works to raise output.

Probably one of the most geopolitically relevant aircraft on earth.

Small business/private jets have very quickly become some of the most geopolitically decisive military platforms on earth.

Latvia says a foreign drone entered its airspace from Russia and crashed in Krāslava district, with no civilian casualties or infrastructure damage.

The X-59 is flown by NASA’s sharpest pilots, it is no wonder they caught the issue and were safe about it.

According to the brigade, the exercise was designed to support the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative and to show how attack helicopters could contribute to counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS) missions, alongside more traditional air defense assets. The US Army noted that the Apache’s speed and mobility make it suited to intercepting aerial threats that might evade fixed-wing aircraft or ground-based defenses in some scenarios.

Founded in 2018, Merlin is developing its AI-powered Merlin Pilot system for a range of applications. In civil aviation, the company has pointed to use cases including cargo operations with aircraft such as the Cessna Grand Caravan. In defense, Merlin is pursuing opportunities tied to reduced-crew and uncrewed operations as military customers explore new ways to expand flexibility and ease pilot demand.

With this mission, dubbed “That’s Not a Knife”, Hypersonix Launch Systems aims to validate a number of systems onboard the autonomous DART AE hypersonic aircraft. The findings will be used to develop a vehicle capable of reaching a speed of Mach 12.

The incident has been widely described online as a possible “friendly fire” loss, but neither the US military nor Kuwaiti authorities had issued a public statement confirming the cause, location, or unit involved at the time of writing.

The US Embassy in Jerusalem is urging non-emergency government personnel and family members to leave Israel while commercial flights are still available.

The closest modern comparison to the proposed Albatross revival is the De Havilland Canadair 515, a newly relaunched twin-turboprop amphibian built for wildfire suppression. It operates in a similar size class and under modern certification standards, though it serves a specialized firefighting role rather than passenger or multi-mission transport.

The CATNLF article is not a full wing. It is a 40-inch-scale model that NASA mounted under the F-15’s belly, standing upright like a fin. NASA picked that configuration to enable the testing of the design in real flight conditions without building a new aircraft.

The partnerships validate what industry insiders have observed: that island-rich regions like Southeast Asia and India’s extensive coastline offer ideal conditions for ground-effect craft deployment. These areas often struggle with connectivity challenges where conventional ferries are too slow, and aircraft operations are either impractical or expensive.

Faury cited aircraft engines as the trickiest parts to secure during 2024 and 2025, noting that there was such high aircraft demand that there is “probably room for other players”.

The number of F-16s destroyed in this devastating attack is undisclosed at press time.

Australian airline Qantas will also offer frequent flyer benefits to those buying into its NFT collection (which was announced March 2021 but hasn’t been publicly unveiled yet).

Can you imagine dishes that are only possible in low or zero gravity? Like, your souffles on Mars might never collapse!