Dubai Airshow 2025

For years the question for the AAM market was about technology. Now the question is market viability.

Editors discuss what the defense industry was talking about at Dubai Airshow: from Saudi F-35s to Fursan to Red Arrows.

The Pentagon is partnering with mining companies MP Materials and Maaden to establish a rare earths refinery in Saudi Arabia.

Maximus Air plans to partner with Colorado-based startup Radia, which is developing what is planned to be the world’s largest aircraft.

Falcon Executive Aviation has announced that it will begin work on a VIP terminal at Ras Al Khaimah International Airport here in the UAE.

Charter plans to launch in February or March.

Airbus has pivoted to moving uncompleted A350s off the production line to finish cabin installation at numerous separate stations as it works to ramp production

A Hanwha turbofan engine scheduled for completion in 2028 is a candidate to re-engine the Lockheed Martin Vectis, a CCA designed by Skunk Works.

Azerbaijan-based Silk Way West Airlines has ordered two more Airbus A350Fs, taking its total firm commitment for the type to four.

Edge Group's new propulsion business Powertech recently completed the preliminary design of a 1,200 lb.-thrust turbofan.

Oman Air will replace outgoing Boeing 737-800s with more of the same model as it seeks to avert further problems with the MAX’s engines.

FADA will start seriously ramping up work early next year to develop its synthetic aperture radar know-how as it works to start deploying a constellation in 2028.

Archer and Joby have both announced plans to launch flight testing in Saudi Arabia, part of an effort to establish air taxi services in the kingdom.

Vertical Aerospace plans to reveal its certification eVTOL aircraft design on Dec. 10 in London, according to Stuart Simpson, the startup's CEO.

Kenya Airways and Boeing have reached a five-year extension of an Airplane Health Management (AHM) agreement, in continued support of its 787-8 fleet.

As air traffic continues to grow faster in the Middle East than the global average, Boeing forecasts that the region will require 1,370 new widebodies over the next 20 years.

Despite committing to diversify its all-Boeing fleet with A321neos on day two of Dubai Airshow, day three saw Flydubai announce up to 75 more 737 MAX orders.

Airbus Commercial CEO Christian Scherer says the company could build a stretched version of the A350-1000 and is seeing increasing customer demand for such an aircraft.

Dassault Aviation took centre stage among the business aircraft at the Dubai Airshow with its Falcon 6X.

The first prototype of the Su-75 combat aircraft is closing in on its first flight, according to the CEO of Sukhoi’s parent company Rostec.

Listen in as editors discuss Boeing and Airbus both now looking at the feasibility of upsizing their largest twin-aisles at the behest of Emirates, which led the way for orders at Dubai Airshow.

MBDA plans to develop loitering munitions in the UAE through a partnership with French startup Fly-R and the Tawazun Council for Defense Enablement.

Joby Aviation has detailed the path by which it hopes to gain approval to launch passenger operations in the United Arab Emirates.

The 2025 Dubai Airshow featured perhaps the strongest advanced air mobility (AAM) showing of any major airshow to date.

Airbus sees a potential opening to address a NATO need to find an alternative platform to Boeing’s E-7 airborne early warning aircraft.