Ghana’s Ministry of Defence has suspended negotiations with Czech aircraft builder Aero Vodochody for the acquisition of six L-39 NG light attack/trainer aircraft while a rival US bid was evaluated.
The Azerbaijani Defence Ministry has announced that its country’s air force has conducted live-fire training flights with its Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a recent military exercise.
Following the delivery of the last of its new F-15SA advanced fighter aircraft to the Royal Saudi Air Force on December 14 2020, as part of a $29bn foreign military sales (FMS) agreement signed in 2010, Boeing has now been awarded a $93.39 million ‘bilateral requirements contract modification’ for the Royal Saudi Air Force F-15SA OEM training programme, the US DoD announced on 8 December.
The Indian Air Force has started the training of its pilots on the Rafale within India itself. Rafale pilot and groundcrew training in France ended in April 2021, with the graduation of the third batch of personnel.
The joint UK-Qatari Typhoon Squadron is continuing to work up, participating in a series of exercises. The Joint Squadron was planned to operate for a period of three years, the last six months of which will be spent in Qatar.
The latest group of future Saudi Arabian air traffic controllers to train with New Zealand’s Airways International was the first to include Saudi women learning ATC skills abroad. Alan Dron reports.
The U.S. Justice Department has unveiled an ongoing antitrust investigation into labor market allocation in the aerospace engineering market, revealing indictments against six executives who are alleged to have established an anti-poaching regime among their companies.
We hear from Embraer’s Ramón Vahed about cost-effective maintenance for African operators following the strengthening of ties between Kenya Airways and Congo Airways.
Rodney Luetzen, United Airlines’ VP line maintenance, talks about the operation's holiday planning and how the airline is ramping up for growth, which is scheduled to include 500 new aircraft, in this five-question interview.
EgyptAir Training Academy has recently acquired a new international accreditation from ICAO Regional Center in the field of Aviation Security Training.
Gulf Air has developed for the first time an in-house type rating course for its pilots who fly Airbus to be qualified to fly its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner fleet.
The first of three Airliners being supplied to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has successfully passed its Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) at Alsim’s manufacturing facility.
