Share this story On 10 September 2026, a grey helicopter with tail number 27045 landed at Moffett Air National Guard Base in California for the last time. It was the final operational HH-60G Pave Hawk in the US Air Force, and with it ended more than four decades of...
Share this story Milan’s Malpensa Airport now officially carries the name of Silvio Berlusconi. At a ceremony in the arrivals area of Terminal 1 on Friday 25 September, the former prime minister’s family and senior government figures unveiled the new name,...
Share this story Nobody likes reaching for it, but everyone expects it to be there. From 1 October, airBaltic passengers will no longer find a sick bag in the seat pocket in front of them. The Latvian airline, now restructuring under US Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Share this story Qatar Airways has quietly ended an era. The Doha carrier has retired its Airbus A330 passenger fleet, Reuters reported on 25 September, and it is sending some of the pilots who flew them to Rwanda. The move is a direct consequence of the Iran war. Jet...
Share this story Latvia wants to hit targets far beyond its borders, and it has picked the weapon. On 25 September, President Edgars Rinkēvičs visited Anduril Industries in California, met founder Palmer Luckey, and said he was looking forward to completing the...
Share this story GPS jamming is usually a story from the Baltic, the Black Sea or the Middle East. In the early hours of Friday 25 September, it was a story from Los Angeles. Crews on at least two United Airlines flights told air traffic controllers that GPS...
Share this story Airbus has a date. On Tuesday 29 September at 10:20 local time, weather and systems permitting, the first A350F freighter will take off from Toulouse for the first time. Airbus will stream the flight live on X. The aircraft, MSN700, registered F-WXLD,...
Share this story The F-16 has seen heavy action against Iranian air defences in Operation Epic Fury. Its existing self-protection gear has coped, but the US Air Force knows that China’s air defences are a different league. So this week it put another $87.4...
Share this story Sicily’s busiest airport has shut again. On Saturday 26 September, ash from Mount Etna’s North-East Crater forced Catania-Fontanarossa Airport to stop all flights, first until the afternoon and then until noon on Sunday 27 September. A...
Share this story In the first nine months of 2026, Ukrainian military units ordered more than 590,000 drones through a single online marketplace. The number alone is remarkable. What they chose to buy is more telling: the most ordered category is no longer the FPV...
Share this story Early on Saturday 26 September, two Houthi ballistic missiles were fired at Khamis Mushait, a city high in the mountains of south-western Saudi Arabia. Both were shot down, according to the Saudi-led coalition. At the same time, two Houthi drones were...
Share this story For more than forty years, a Cessna Citation that legally needed two pilots could be flown by one, as long as the pilot held the right exemption and endorsement. That ends on 29 September. The FAA has announced that it will stop issuing single-pilot...
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