17 October 2025
  • OTHER

    Bordeaux pélicandrome – end of the fiery season

    On 3 October 2025, the last firefighting aircraft left the pélicandrome located within Bordeaux-Mérignac Air Base (base aérienne 106 – BA 106) of Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace (the French Air and Space Force), thereby marking the end of [...]
  • PHOTO OF THE WEEK

    Aero A-18C

    Aero A-18C (c/n ?, “Black 5”) racing aircraft, exhibited at Letecké muzeum Kbely (Kbely Aviation Museum), Prague, September 2025. In March 1923, a new biplane fighter developed by the Aero aviation company, designated the A-18, successfully made its maiden flight. [...]
  • MILITARY AVIATION

    Eight more MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters for the USAF

    Last week, Boeing officially announced that the company had been awarded an additional contract to produce eight more MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters for the United States Air Force. The deal, worth more than $173 million, includes training and sustainment support [...]

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Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion

by Jacek Domański in SHORT AVIATION STORIES

On 14 October 1964, the YCH-53A, a prototype heavy-lift cargo helicopter which would later become known as the Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion, made its maiden [...]

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