Farnborough Airshow 2026

By Christine Boynton
Around this time two years ago, demand was high and uncertainty rife. Heading into Farnborough 2026, some things remain very much the same.
Airlines & Lessors

By Tony Osborne
Boeing is looking to advance the installation of an AESA radar onto the Apache, as the airframer and the U.S. Army seek to expand the rotorcraft’s situational awareness.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Sikorsky would commit to opening helicopter production facilities in Europe if its proposals for NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability are selected by the partner nations.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman is increasing its pitch for airborne electronic warfare self-protection systems on international F-16s, business jets and even bigger aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick, Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
As the Farnborough Airshow approaches, editors discuss how engine-makers are making headway with nagging durability problems while positioning for the all-important next-gen single aisle competition—and explain how the two play into each other.
Check 6

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
Loyal Farnborough attendees will remember a decade ago when torrential rain forced an early end to one of the trade days. There is a different kind of storm brewing for this year’s air show.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Boeing again skips Farnborough flying to prioritize 737 MAX and 777-9 certification as both programs near completion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Matteo Peraldo
Engine-makers earned their dominance through capital risk and the long game—will that hold through 2026?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne, Robert Wall
Canada is expected to join the British-Italian-Japanese GCAP fighter program as an observer, signaling interest in its next-generation stealth aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
GE Aerospace has chosen StandardAero to build, maintain and overhaul the CT7 engines that will power the UK’s Leonardo AW149 New Medium Helicopter (NMH) fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has completed the first flight of a Tranche 4 Eurofighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems has lifted the veil on a new-generation, helmet-mounted sight demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Rachel Hutchison, Craig Caffrey
Aviation Week Defense Market Analyzer data shows that spending by militaries around the world is set to spike in 2027.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Business as usual is a vanishing prospect for the aerospace industry.
Emerging Technologies

By Daniel Williams
What activity has the commercial fleet recorded since Farnborough 2024? Get the picture, with data from Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK's aerospace sector may be booming, but it is also being throttled by geopolitical uncertainty, rising costs and supply-chain pressures, trade association ADS says.
Supply Chain

By Joe Anselmo
Commercial aviation faces an innovation gulf. Its customers do not seem to care.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
As a first generation of hypersonic weapons in the U.S. nears fielding, the Pentagon has adopted a different set of goals than range and speed for the next.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The next generation of RAF combat power will depend as much on autonomous systems and industrial resilience as on a new fighter aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems is conceptualizing how to control and direct CCAs in battle using the wide-area display planned for the Eurofighter Typhoon.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Defense Department is attempting to create an industry from next to nothing in 24 months.
Supply Chain

By Richard Aboulafia
When the next-gen narrowbody programs launch is largely out of the hands of Airbus and Boeing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris, Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau
As Airbus and Boeing develop A320neo and 737 MAX successors, opportunities will open for suppliers to deploy long-developed products.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris, Vivienne Machi
Sixty-one years after the U.S. launched its first and only reactor into orbit, space nuclear power and propulsion now appear central to U.S. space superiority.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

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