24 June 2025
  • CIVIL AVIATION

    Forty new Airbus A220 aeroplanes for LOT Polish Airlines

    On 16th June 2025, Airbus announced via its website that LOT Polish Airlines had placed an order for forty medium-haul, narrow-body aircraft from the A220 family. That order marks the first time in history of the Polish national carrier when [...]
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    Aero L-39NG Skyfox

    Aero L-39NG Skyfox (c/n 167017, ´0478´ of Centrum Leteckého Výcviku / Flight Training Centre – CLV) taking-off for flying display during the 33rd Aviatická pouť (Aviation Fair) air show, Pardubice, June 2025. Search for a successor of Aero L-39 Albatros, [...]
  • CIVIL AVIATION

    Global airliner fleet to reach 50,000 aircraft by 2044

    The 2025 Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) forecast, recently released by Boeing, predicts the global fleet to reach approximately 50,000 commercial aircraft by 2044. The company also emphasized that during the upcoming two decades, the air travel market growth will be [...]

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Aurel Vlaicu – the Romanian aviation pioneer

by Jacek Domański in SHORT AVIATION STORIES

On 17th June 1910, Vlaicu I, an aircraft built by Aurel Vlaicu, performed its maiden flight near Cotroceni Hill (Dealul Cotroceni) in Bucharest. It was [...]

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