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MILITARY AVIATION

96 Apaches for Poland – the $4.7 billion contract officially awarded to Boeing

8 December 2025 Jacek Domański

At the end of November 2025, Boeing was officially awarded the contract to produce the AH-64E Apache attack helicopter for international customers. The contract, executed under a Foreign Military Sales programme supervised by the US […]

FEATURED

End of the tale – Poland retires its Sukhoi Su-22 aircraft

5 November 2025 Jacek Domański

On 11 September 2025, after more than four decades of service, the Siły Powietrzne (Polish Air Force) officially retired its last examples of the Sukhoi Su-22 fighter-bomber. Once again, one of the iconic aircraft of […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Poland says farewell to Mi-14 anti-submarine helicopters

10 September 2025 Jacek Domański

In early September 2025, the Polish Naval Air Brigade officially retired its last Mil Mi-14PŁ anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter. The Mi-14PŁ (the Polish designation for the Mi-14PL) served as the primary ASW (anti-submarine warfare) rotorcraft […]

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Canadian Car and Foundry AT-6 Harvard Mk IV

2 September 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Canadian Car and Foundry AT-6 Harvard Mk IV (c/n CCF-4-409, SP-YIX, formerly ´51-17227´ of the United States Air Force and ´MM5384´ of the Italian Air Force), performing an evening flying display in the golden light […]

AVIATION HISTORY

RWD-8 – the most-produced pre-war Polish aircraft

19 August 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Among Polish interwar aircraft, those designed by Stanisław Rogalski, Stanisław Wigura, and Jerzy Drzewiecki — designated RWD, the name coming from the initials of their surnames — hold a special place in aviation history. Notable […]

OTHER

Slam dunk from the sky – how basketball merged with aviation in Poland

13 August 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Two Polish athletes, Piotr ´Grabo´ Grabowski – FIBA 3×3 World Champion in slam dunks, and Łukasz Czepiela – aerobatic pilot and winner of the 2018 Red Bull Air Race Challenger Cup, teamed up to perform […]

SPACE

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski – the second Pole in space and the first aboard the ISS

21 July 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski flew to the International Space Station (ISS) within the Polish science mission Ignis, as European Space Agency (ESA) project astronaut. He worked as mission specialist participating in the private Ax-4 mission by Axiom […]

CIVIL AVIATION

Forty new Airbus A220 aeroplanes for LOT Polish Airlines

23 June 2025 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

AIR SHOW NEWS

2025 European air show season – news and updates (3)

2 June 2025 Jacek Domański

Every year, we are bringing your attention to some of the upcoming aviation events in Europe and sharing our experiences from their previous editions, as well as telling you the reasons, why we consider them […]

SPACE

The name of the first Polish mission to the International Space Station is… Ignis!

16 December 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

On 2nd December 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Polish Ministry of Development and Technology (Ministerstwo Rozwoju i Technologii – MRiT) and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) announced Ignis to be the official name […]

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Aviation History

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    4 December 2025
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    4 December 2025
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