On 30 December 2025, Saab announced that it had signed a contract with Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA — the French General Directorate of Armaments) for the purchase of two GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning and […]
On 2 January 1880, Louis Charles Breguet, a French aviation pioneer and aircraft designer, was born in Paris. Louis Breguet the grandson of Louis Clément François Breguet and the great-great-grandson of Abraham-Louis Breguet, two renowned […]
On 19 December 1910, Yoshitoshi Tokugawa performed the first flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft in Japan, flying the Farman III aeroplane. Yoshitoshi Tokugawa was born in 1884, as the son of Count Tokugawa Atsumori. […]
On 21 November 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d’Arlandes made the world´s first untethered flight in a Montgolfier hot air balloon. The aerostat reached an altitude of 3,000 feet and remained airborne […]
On 21 October 1947, 78 years ago from today, the Leduc 0.10 experimental aircraft performed its first free-gliding flight. Just over a year later, the aeroplane designed by René Leduc, a French aviation engineer, made […]
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), […]
On 10th October 1976, the prototype of a small utility aircraft, the Embraer EMB 121 Xingu, performed its first flight. The EMB 121 was one of the aircraft belonging to the Family 12X, a series […]
Today marks the 135th anniversary of the first manned flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft, successfully performed by the French aviation pioneer Clément Ader. Although the flight was uncontrolled and reached a height of only twenty […]
On 12th August 2025, the Ariane 6 expendable launch system successfully carried out its third space mission, launching from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. In addition, it marked the 300th launch protected […]
On 11th August 2025, two Airbus H225M helicopters, commonly known as Caracal, arrived in French Guiana to strengthen the air capabilities of Forces armées en Guyane (the Armed Forces in French Guiana – FAG). The […]
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