All Channels

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor Flies at the Dubai Airshow

The planned Addis Ababa airport has capacity for more than 100 million passengers each year.

Airframer sees market share improving amidst overall declining markets

Supply chain and logistics specialist Farsound aims to know what its customers need before they do.

There is a large regional presence beyond Gulf ‘Big Three,’ and it’s increasing all the time.

Comac won’t say when in 2016 it now plans to conduct the first flight of the delayed C919

The new L410NG from the Czech Republic’s Aircraft Industries features the new GE H-85 turboprop engine

Improved systems to enable more precise navigation

Static display includes Citation Latitude business jet, special-mission King Air and Grand Caravan EX, light attack AT-6, UAS and precision-guided weapons.

Beechcraft’s AT-6C Wolverine light attacker has recently participated in a NATO exercise, demonstrating excellent results.

Jet Aviation recently delivered a VIP ACJ A340 aircraft.

Global Aerospace Logistics is working with eight UAE airports as part of new ANS division.

Eurocontrol and GCAA recently signed an agreement on flight data

Iran is already exploring what it can buy from the likes of Russia and China when sanctions lift and its assets are unfrozen.

Gulfstream is stepping up flight testing of its new G500 and G600 jets.

Brazilian OEM says Middle East carriers are cottoning on to the “right-sizing” concept and the potential of regional aircraft.

Fly-by-wire controls reduce pilot workload and therefore improve safety, Bell says.

The Bell 407-derived NorthStar Aviation 407MRH is on display at the Dubai Air Show for the first time.

Still one of the industry’s turnaround success stories, ATR has gone from strength to strength since almost closing 10 years ago due to ‘jet mania’.

DWC capacity to hit around 120 million in 2025, but confusion over new Dubai South name replacing ‘Dubai World Central’.

Iomax is displaying the latest iteration of its border patrol aircraft concept. The ArchAngel is now entering UAE service.

AVIC’s FC-31 shows considerable similarities to the F-22 and F-35 fighters

Runway 10R-28L will be used primarily as an arrivals runway

Russia and the UK suspended flights to and from Egypt while awaiting the findings of an investigation into the October 31 crash of a Metrojet A321.

The Roketsan Cirit laser-guided rocket is being used by the UAE armed forces and can be seen here at the Dubai Airshow on an Archangel aircraft.

Atlantic Flight Training has signed a deal with Turkish Airlines to train its pilots.

Market outlook forecasts 3,180 new Middle East aircraft worth $750 billion over next 20 years; widebodies will remain dominant.

Emirates will take delivery of three A380s in one month in December, while its flight cadre to quadruple to 16,000 pilots over the next two decades.

Block II version of Honeywell SmartPath, the only FAA-certified system of its kind, now supports up to 48 approach options.

Middle East carriers face an abundance of choice among new generation narrowbody jets.