Set up 20 years ago as an offset company under the US-Saudi Peace Shield command, control and communications programme, Alsalam Aircraft is now a multi-faceted company with three current main lines of business.
Saudi Arabian business/VIP aircraft management provider Arabian Jets has moved into a facility at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport and plans to have a MRO capability for Hawker Beechcraft King Air turboprops up and running by the end of 2011.
Mohammed Al Zeer, chairman of MAZ Aviation, has words of advice for Western manufacturers and business aviation service providers who arrange sales tours with an aim to breaking into the lucrative Saudi Arabian market – think and act local.
Saudi Arabia's second airline is making a big impact. Alan Peaford meets the people who have revitalised the floundering start-up low-cost carrier and helped develop it into a serious international player.
The former British RAF Coastal Command base at St Mawgan in Cornwall – now serving as Newquay Cornwall Airport – is currently playing host to Lynx and Merlin helicopters emblazoned with Arabic script and bearing an unfamiliar green, red and white star and crescent moon insignia.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has notified the US Congress of a planned sale of the Boeing C-17 strategic transport aircraft to Kuwait.
With coalition forces progressively disengaging from Iraq, its own armed forces are increasingly taking over the responsibility for fighting the insurgency and ensuring the nation's security. Jon Lake reports.
Has the Saudi decision to buy Boeing F-15 Strike Eagles put an end to the hopes for the Eurofighter Typhoon or is there more going on behind the scenes. Jon Lake investigates.
The UAE's new Al Fursan (The Knights) aerobatic team has started to receive its upgraded Alenia Aermacchi MB-339A (NAT) aircraft, and all ten are expected to be delivered by the end of the year.
Libya's two international airlines are due to join forces. But when? The timetable for the long-planned merger between Libyan Airlines and Afriqiyah Airways continues to drag, with no clear indication of precisely when the two Tripoli-based carriers will become one. Keith Mwanalushi and Alan Dron have been looking at the airlines.
With the current rapid growth in commercial aviation in the Middle East and Gulf regions, global aerospace company Goodrich Corporation is reaping rewards after establishing a major MRO operation in Dubai's Jebel Ali free zone only three short years ago. Geoff Thomas reports.
FOD means different things to different people. To some it spells 'foreign object damage', to others it's the cause of the problem and stands for 'foreign object debris'. But, whatever you deduce from the acronym, it's nearly always financially expensive and can – in the worst circumstances – cost lives. Geoff Thomas reports.
This year's IDEX will see nations across the MENA region assessing their air-launched missile requirements and, as Claire Apthorp finds out, the market for these weapons is already growing dramatically.
The Middle East suffers from a high number of illegal charter operations – known as the 'grey market'. But the problem is wider spread. Jon Lake reports.
