
2025


Rappel training in Serbia
This month, personnel of the 72nd Special Operations Brigade and the helicopter squadron of the 98th Air Brigade of the Serbian Armed Forces performed a joint training in rappel insertion techniques. The exercise was performed […]

Operation Boxtop 2025 – RAF C-17 crews in the Arctic Circle
At the turn of April and May 2025, twelve members of No. 99 Squadron Royal Air Force (RAF) spent a week in the Arctic Circle delivering supplies to the world’s northernmost located base. The C-17 […]

Medevac operations in French Guiana
In early April of 2025, Forces armées en Guyane – FAG (the Armed Forces in French Guiana) performed three medevac operations within forty-eight hours. All missions were successfully completed by Cayenne-based Escadron de Transport 68 […]

The first OA-1K Skyraider II handed over to the USAF Special Operations Command
In the beginning of April 2025, the US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) announced on its website that the first OA-1K Skyraider II aircraft officially joined their fleet. The ceremony marking acceptance of the […]

Maule M-5-210C Strata Rocket
Maule M-5-210C Strata Rocket (c/n 6034C, OK-ESM), taxiing for sightseeing flight within Den ve vzduchu 2025 air show, Plasy, April 2025. The story of Maule aircraft starts in 1911, with Belford David Maule, who was […]

Blériot replica is officially launched
On Friday, 25th April 2025, Sdružení Aviatické pouti (the Aviation Fair Association) officially launched its airworthy replica of Jan Kašpar´s Blériot type aircraft. The solemn ceremony took place at Kunětice airfield, with participation of invited […]

Coming soon – the 33rd edition of Aviation Fair
In about a month, the 33rd edition of Aviatická pouť (Aviation Fair), the biggest civilian air show event in the Czech Republic, will take place at Pardubice airfield. This year the show will be marked […]

Flight of the storks – CIGONEX 2025
On 23rd April 2025, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) held a live-fly training, codenamed CIGONEX. It was the first joint exercise of the French ´Cigognes´ (English: storks) squadrons, […]

FARP at the Marine training course
In the middle of April 2025, the US Marine Corps helicopter crews took part in the Forward Arming and Refuelling Point (FARP) training, within the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course 2-25 organised by the […]