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From active duty to history – a short review of military aircraft retirements in 2025

14 January 2026 Jacek Domański

The year 2025 marked aviation history with several notable farewells to iconic military aircraft. These included both well-known workhorses from the Cold War era and relatively newer designs that proved ineffective in the modern combat […]

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 […]

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Military Aviation

  • 27 March 1994 – first flight of Eurofighter Typhoon
    26 March 2026
  • Operation Poker – the French nuclear raid exercise
    25 March 2026
  • NATO strengthens Eastern Flank through IAMD exercise in Romania
    23 March 2026

Air Shows

  • Aviation Fair goes to Hradec Králové!
    2 February 2026
  • Heritage and modern capability – Tag der Bundeswehr 2025 at Internationales Hubschrauberausbildungszentrum in Bückeburg.
    7 January 2026
  • The spirit of flight returns to Pardubice – Aviatická pouť 2025
    30 October 2025

Space

  • 40th anniversary of the launch of Mir’s core module
    18 February 2026
  • 16 January 2003 – launch of STS-107, the final flight of Columbia
    15 January 2026
  • Beyond the Solar System – Pioneer 10 and 11
    10 November 2025

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Civil Aviation

  • Iconic Jumbo Jet joins Lufthansa’s 100th anniversary “XXL Crane” fleet
    9 March 2026
  • Farewell to the Bonanza, the aircraft that changed the general aviation
    1 December 2025
  • African air carriers order Boeing 737 MAX airliners at the Dubai Airshow
    19 November 2025

Aviation History

  • 20 March 1922 – USS Langley was recommissioned
    19 March 2026
  • 6 March 1936 – Avro Anson enters the RAF service
    5 March 2026
  • 27 February 1965 – first flight of Antonov An-22
    26 February 2026

Other

  • DART AE – the hypersonic pioneer aircraft achieves first flight
    4 March 2026
  • Red Bull Train Landing Project – the world’s first landing and take-off with an aeroplane from a moving train
    25 February 2026
  • Human power transferred into lift force – the Peloton Takeoff Project
    17 December 2025
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