Dubai Airshow

A vivid example of the way off-the-shelf elements can help speed up aerospace programs can be seen on the static display here at Dubai Airshow.

Beijing Zhong-Han-Zhi Science & Technology has come to Dubai to further promote its TD220 coaxial-rotor UAV on the international market.

The $72.8 million Global 7000 is to have a max speed of Mach .925 and a 7,400 nm cruise range at Mach .85 with eight passengers and four crew member.

The last Dubai Airshow saw record-breaking orders for commercial airliners. Not so this year, but our onsite editors say that’s not necessarily something to worry about. They explain why in this report from the show.

This year the focus is is on Adcom's global expansion. As well as showcasing two new aircraft, the company announced that it is to start manufacturing and flying its aircraft in the UK.

The Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine on static display at the show has had an eventful recent history.

Boeing says it does not feel pressured to increase the planned production rate of the 737 beyond the currently committed 52 per month in 2018 despite the recent announcement by Airbus that it plans to boost A320 family production to 60 per month by 2019.

Boeing says the ripening market for a new middle-of-the-market aircraft seating between 220 and 280 passengers could see sales “in the thousands.”

Fresh off completing the sale of six A-29 Super Tucano to Lebanon, Embraer and its partner Sierra Nevada seek to expand the aircraft’s inroads in the Middle East and Africa with its first-ever Dubai Airshow display of the light attack aircraft.

Across the Middle East, the region’s airports are expanding, but nothing quite on the scale of development to be seen here in Dubai.

After years of searching for a foothold on the Indian sub-continent, ExecuJet Middle East has partnered with an as yet unnamed Indian partner to operate a fixed-base and maintenance operation at New Delhi International Airport.

There are a number of ironies surrounding the growing maturity of the military unmanned air systems market as far as the Middle East is concerned.

Despite U.S. efforts to integrate missile defenses, Gulf countries buy their own point-defense systems.

Gama Aviation’s Sharjah fixed base operation has tightened up its business aviation ground-based costs and can now offer services 20% below the regional market average, says Gama Managing Director for MENA Martin Ringrose.

This year’s Dubai Airshow is going to be bigger, better and more varied than anything that has gone before, says Michele van Akelijen, managing director of show organizers F&E Aerospace.

Athens-based VIP charter operator GainJet Aviation is fitting a state-of-the-art quick-change auxiliary fuel tank system to its Boeing 737-400 Classic and hopes to fly it here to the Dubai Airshow.

Business jet operator GainJet Aviation of Athens last month added a Challenger 604 and a Gulfstream 650 to its managed fleet of business jets, and is expecting two more aircraft by the end of the year, according to CEO Capt. Ramsey Shaban.

Falcon Aviation Services, a corporate jet and helicopter service provider, is now offering offshore transportation to Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co., from its base at Al Bateen Executive Airport, the region’s only dedicated business aviation airport.

A team of three PhD students from the Sharjah campus of Khalifa University may have found a method of solving a perennial problem for the region's aviation industry. And in the process, they could also have identified a new application for unmanned aircraft.

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

Digitally assisted close air support technology is coming to the Middle East.

Airbus Helicopters is hoping it can generate interest in its new H160 twin-engine medium helicopter here in the Middle East.

Russia’s government arms trade agency Rosoboronexport is restoring ties with Iran, continuing deliveries to Syria and otherwise planning to boost sales to the Middle East region.

Northstar Aviation, the UAE-based company which has developed a bespoke armed version of the Bell 407 light helicopter, is in negotiations with several Middle Eastern states for more sales of the aircraft.

In 2008, the sale of U.S. precision-guided weapons to Saudi Arabia was controversial in Congress. But the sale of all kinds of weapons to the oil-rich kingdom has picked up, particularly since 2010.