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Bulgaria retires last MiG-21 fighters

Russian emergencies minister opens center of unmanned aviation in Moscow region

Russia’s emergencies ministry on Sunday opened an unmanned aviation center at the ministry’s Moscow region department. The ceremony was attended by Minister Vladimir Puchkov. "The unmanned aviation center will help improve the quality of monitoring and raise the level of crisis resp...

Students climb into 727 cockpit

It’s a bit musty inside the 727 parked near a row of storage sheds at Riverside Municipal Airport. Part of the stale smell may be because the plane has been sitting dormant for more than 2½ years. Part of it may be the pigeons that have taken roost in the housings of the unused jet engi...

City establishes aviation association

Ten local general aviation companies have established the city’s first general aviation association to meet the rising demand for the industry in the East China region. The Shanghai General Aviation Association, approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China, will set up a resources bank to share talents including pilots, maintenance workers and air traffic controllers among the c...

Napier artist's aviation-themed paintings take off around the world

An artist who taught himself to paint just four years ago is earning commissions from around the world for his aviation-themed works. Napier man Don Wilkie said the bulk of his works find their way overseas, with buyers in the United States, Europe and Australia snapping up most of his paintings and prints. The 64-year-old said while he enjoyed art at high school he only returned to the ease...

Israel Hosts First-Ever Aviation Cyber Innovation Center

International Air Transport Association asks Tel Aviv University’s Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center to invent safety and security techs. Airports and airplanes will soon become safer and friendlier for travelers, thanks to a joint collaboration between Tel Aviv University and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global trade association for the airline industry....

Long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces celebrates its 101st anniversary

Today the Long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces celebrates its 101st anniversary. At the present time the Long-range aviation is equipped with strategic missile-carrying aircraft Tu-160 and Tu-95MS, long-range bombers Tu-22M3, air tankers Il-78(M), special purpose aircraft A-30B, air transports An-12, An-26, as well as Mi-8 and Mi-26 helicopters. This year, crews of the Long-ra...

Gama Aviation climbing Mount Kilimanjaro

In February 2016, 19 Gama Aviation employees will climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Kiomboi hospital in Tanzania. Alongside other medical operations, the hospital handles approximately 8,000 births a year. They only have enough water for one hour a day. Because of the lack of water, heavily pregnant women have to collect water from the unclean river to bring to the hospital t...

DC-3 enters ninth decade

The Douglas DC-3 is still going strong 80 years after its first flight took place on December 17 1935. The first DC-3s were built for American Airlines and featured either eight sleeper berths (called the Douglas Sleeper Transport) or a standard configuration of 21 seats. The DC-3 proved one of aviation’s most successful programs, with about 16,000 aircraft built between 1935 and...

Indonesian T-50 crashes during aerial display

A Korea Aerospace Industries/Lockheed Martin T-50 Golden Eagle jet trainer/light combat aircraft belonging to the Indonesian air force crashed on 19 December, during an aerial display at Yogyakarta, Java. The T-50 is believed to have been flying to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the air force’s flight school and local reports claim the supersonic aircraft spiralled to the ground, killi...

SpaceX Falcon 9 booster achieves epic vertical landing

SpaceX has pulled of a monumental feat in aerospace engineering by landing its upgraded first-stage Falcon 9 rocket booster at Cape Canaveral, Florida, while successfully putting 11 Orbcomm communications satellites on orbit. In the 20th space flight for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and 6th launch this year, the company won over its doubters by reigniting the first-stage booster stage upon re-en...

5 bodies found in plane wreckage in California orchard

Five people have been found dead in the widely spread wreckage of a small plane that crashed into an almond orchard in California near Bakersfield, authorities said. The plane became the subject of a search after disappearing from radar, Kern County sheriff's Sgt. Mark King said, and federal authorities are investigating the cause. He expected the names of the victims to be released Monday....

New to USA the Merlin PSA: Personal Sport Aircraft

The Merlin PSA, an affordable high-performance single-seat Personal Sport Aircraft. Imagine an all-aluminum aircraft with a cantilevered wing, 120 mph cruise speed, plenty of cabin and luggage space, all for under $35,000! And this includes the builders' assistance program in sunny Florida. The Merlin PSA is available now as a quick-build E-AB (Experimental Amateur-Built, &qu...

RFDS retains “most reputable charity” title

Research consultants AMR’s charity reputation index has named the Royal Flying Doctor Service as Australia’s “most reputable charity” for a fifth straight year. The AMR report found the RFDS received top marks on six of the seven criteria the company’s charity reputation index was based on, namely service, innovation, workplace, citizenship, governance, leader...

Walking on a plane’s wings takes more than just a prayer

The world’s only aerobatic formation wing-walking team, the Breitling Wingwalkers, is in the UAE and competing in this year’s Al Ain Air Championship. The British team consists of two 1930s Boeing Stearman bi-planes in bright orange colours, two experienced pilots and two incredibly fit ladies who ride on top of the plane while doing daring stunts. The pilots, Martyn Carrington a...

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Ten years of Riga Aviation Forum — insights from Zigmars Vestfals on growth, milestones and the road ahead

As the 10th edition of the Riga Aviation Forum was getting ready to open, 50SkyShades — a long‑standing Media Partner of the event — took the opportunity to sit down with Zigmars Vestfals,...

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Global trade body The Air Charter Association (The ACA) celebrated another record‑setting edition of Air Charter Expo (ACE’26) on Tuesday, 8 September 2026, delivered in partnership with Busines...

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