Esterline CMC Electronics has received initial orders from Hawker Beechcraft to supply its Cockpit 4000 integrated avionics suite for 24 T6-C trainer aircraft for the Royal Moroccan Air Force.

Private Aviation service provider Air Partner has expanded its market reach with the opening of a new base in Turkey.

Gulf Air management and the Gulf Air Trade Union (GATU), has resolved a number of outstanding issues between the two sides and signed a collective bargaining agreement to promote the ongoing cooperation between the two parties.

Oman Air has appointed Philippe Georgiou as Chief Officer, Corporate Affairs. The departments that he will be responsible for are Marketing, Corporate Communications and Media, Customer Relations, Emergency Response, Government Relations and Legal Affairs. He will also be the official spokesperson for the airline.

Etihad Airways has appointed Ahmed Thani Salim Mousa Al Halyan as its country manager for Qatar, based in Doha.

Bahrain Air has appointed Bart Schellens as the Director of Commercial Operations.

The first aviation Youth Summer Camp in the Middle East is to be launched by Ayla Aviation Academy this summer.

Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) today announced it has delivered the first four Beechcraft T-6A military trainer aircraft to the Iraqi Air Force.