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Indonesia hopes to show that unsophisticated airplanes can sell, too. Prototype 19-seater will fly soon.

Piper Aircraft announced Tuesday that its Singapore-based regional dealer, Wings Over Asia, recently negotiated a significant sale to an Indonesian airline training school.

Russian Air Force Yak-152s will have a German powerplant. Prototype’s first flight is expected shortly.

A major completions and refurbishment center for large VIP aircraft will be set up in Singapore by ST Aerospace.

Bell's medium sized twin-engine 429 is proves as easy to fly in as it is to look at.

Dassault Falcon is emphasizing its new flagship, the ultra-long-range Falcon 8X. The new trijet isn’t here, but its predecessor 7X is, as is the Falcon 2000LXS twin, which is finding increasing success in the region for special missions.

The restructuring of one of the world’s leading maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organizations, Ameco Beijing, will increase its competitiveness at home and overseas, and bring new capabilities to its customers.

“China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that’s just a fact,” Beijing’s then foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, impatiently told Southeast Asian leaders looking for U.S. support in the South China Sea in 2010. The message was clear enough: they should do as they were told.

Embraer Commercial Aviation predicted at the Singapore Airshow this week that Asia Pacific carriers, including Chinese airlines, will take delivery of 1,570 new jets in the 70-to-130-seat range over the next 20 years representing 25% of the worldwide demand for the segment.

Skylark 3, a new member of Elbit Systems’ autonomous mini-unmanned aircraft system (UAS) family, is making its debut at the Singapore Airshow.

Birds pose a known flight safety hazard that is rarely addressed by flight operations due to the lack of real-time data on bird activity.

Since its establishment in 1988, Roketsan has improved its infrastructure and extended its product range.

ST Aero has boosted its capabilities in passenger-to-cargo jet conversions – and its role as a supplier of composite panels to Airbus.

French avionics company Thales has scored a major victory at Singapore Airlines, ousting its traditional supplier to equip the carrier’s future fleet of Airbus A350 XWB aircraft with in-flight entertainment and Ka-band connectivity.

Courses for disaster response and emergency management training, based on CAE’s experience with simulation training for military scenarios, are also being developed.

Despite plunging oil-and-gas budgets, rotary manufacturer Bell sees significant sales opportunities in developing Asia-Pacific markets.

Singapore-based aircraft maintenance and modification company ST Aerospace has lent its weight to the space race, signing up to engineer the latest launch platform for Virgin Galactic.

Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) is moving into the aircraft leasing business because it sees that owning aircraft on lease to airlines may help it to sell its maintenance and aircraft modification services.

Probably to preserve good relations with its neighbors, especially Indonesia, Australia has avoided public admission that it puts much effort into airborne electronic intelligence. Now it has broken cover.

The last Lockheed Martin S-3B Viking to serve with the U.S. Navy has been retired, ending a 42-year carrier with the Service.

Action movie star Jackie Chan, already the owner of a spectacularly dragon-liveried Embraer Legacy 650, took delivery this month of the first Legacy 500 business jet in China.

AsBAA exults as business aviation operators now have a new gateway, with plenty of ramp space, to the Hong Kong-Macau-Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Zhuhai metroplex, aka the PRD, or Pearl River Delta.

U.S. companies see reinvigorated impetus for Asia Pacific sales following the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership agreed to this past October, government and industry officials said here Monday.

Etihad Airways president and CEO James Hogan and IATA CEO and DG Tony Tyler were among those honored Monday at the Air Transport World 42nd annual airline industry achievement awards in Singapore.

Pratt & Whitney says Boeing has fully embraced the concept of the geared turbofan, and is in discussion over its potential use for the new middle-of-the-market aircraft.