The growth in African air travel has significantly increased demand for new generation aircraft, especially those linking regional centres. Sam Basch looked at one, which is taking shape.
Two pilots were killed last Tuesday when a Libyan National Army (LNA) air force SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 crashed while conducting a surveillance patrol of the Libya-Sudan border on Tuesday last week. Oscar Nkala reports.
Angola's civil aviation authority (Instituto Nacional da Aviação Civil - INAVIC) has grounded local operator Air 26 until further notice citing several safety oversight anomalies, reports ch-aviation.
Honeywell has said its high-speed broadband Wi-Fi system, designed to provide aircraft with Internet speeds similar to those in homes and offices is now an option for new Dassault Falcon business jets.
Kenyan low-cost airline Jambojet has taken delivery of a new 78-seater Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft as it prepares to expand flight operations to cover some 25 destinations in eleven countries of the East African sub-region. By Oscar Nkala
RwandAir, has received another brand new state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 Next Generation aircraft equipped with inflight connectivity. The new aircraft landed in Kigali earlier today and taked RwandAir's young fleet to a total of 12 aircraft.
The critically endangered black rhino has returned to the wilds of Rwanda with the help of Etihad Cargo and animal transport specialist Intradco Global.
The first Lockheed Martin LM-100J commercial freighter aircraft achieved a critical milestone with the completion of its first flight in Georgia USA today.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) national carrier Congo Airways is progressing with its expansion plans and is seeking an equity investor, despite hitting challenges with its regional expansion. Victoria Moores reports.
The Zambian Air Force (ZAF) is negotiating with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) for the possible acquisition of more advanced fighter and trainer jets, helicopters and heavy-lift transport aircraft, as it forges ahead with a force modernisation exercise. Oscar Nkala reports.
Italian airport solutions company ENAV has delivered the first of two air traffic control towers that will be installed at the Mitiga Airport in Libya as part of an ongoing infrastructure revamp project, reports Oscar Nkala.
Aviation IT specialist, SITA, rolled out several community innovation demos with an eye toward the future at this year's Air Transport IT Summit being held in Barcelona. These forward-looking innovations are part of SITA's 2016 multi-million investment across five main focus areas to explore new solutions to some of the air transport industry's most pressing challenges.
A little-known UN mission in Mali celebrates its fourth anniversary this month. Since the deployment began, the multidimensional integrated stabilisation mission in Mali (MINUSMA) has been working to help stabilise the situation after a Tuareg rebellion in 2012, followed by a jihadist insurgency, led to the French military being called into action. France's Operation Barkhane (originally Serval) continues to battle with jihadi fighters while MINUSMA tries to keep the peace. Alan Warnes reports.
By Hillary Muheebwa | Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is this week hosting the Global Aeronautical Information Management conference in partnership with International Federation of Aeronautical Information Management Associations.
At EBACE this week, Angola-based aviation services company Bestfly announced that it has received confirmation it has retained its ISBAO (International Standard for Business Aviation Operators) status for the second year in a row.
The Namibian government says it has restarted a 'transparent and cost-sensitive' tendering process for the expansion of the Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA) which stalled in March after a Supreme Court ruling which nullified the December 2015 decision to award the contract to a Chinese company, writes Oscar Nkala.
FlightSafety International, that has a facility in South Africa, has announced the start of new Master-level Advanced Training Courses for the Dassault Falcon 2000EX EASy and 900EX EASy series aircraft.
Nextant Aerospace has announced the launch of a new cockpit avionics programme in conjunction with Rockwell Collins that will bring Pro Line Fusion to the Bombardier Challenger 604 aircraft platform.
