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August 26, 2026

The Dominican Republic's Ministry of Defense continues delivering military equipment as part of the Armed Forces' modernization program. This time, it delivered an important…

The planned acquisition of British low-cost airline Easyjet by financial investor Apollo Capital Management is falling behind schedule. According to the airline and…

Rwandair is expanding its long-haul fleet. The airline has taken delivery of another Airbus A330-200. The 16-year-old aircraft, registered 9XR-WS, previously flew for Oman Air…

With KIBO discovering the tropical islands where living means always smiling at nature's beauty. Even now that the world has become small, and every place is mapped in detail…

Flag-carrier re-introduces widebody capacity but posts heavy interim loss. Kenya Airways is prioritising a capital raise, along with restoration of its fleet and improved aircraft utilisation, as it…

In Mönchhof, Burgenland, regarded as Austria's oldest wine-growing municipality, the Marienkron Retreat & Health Resort hotel is focusing on the combination of regional viticulture…
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Embraer’s latest evolution of the Phenom 300 brings automated emergency landing capability, enhanced performance, new electronic flight-control architecture and next-generation connectivity to the…

Aviación Digital, Sp.- With close to 14,000 employees called to strike and a turnout the organizing unions put at around 90%, the labor dispute at Airbus's Spanish plants…

The exploration of the universe will enter a new stage with the arrival of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a NASA mission designed to observe regions of the cosmos with coverage…

United Airlines announced the largest international expansion in its history by revealing 10 new destinations, several of them operated by its new A321XLR aircraft called “Born to Explore”. Two of…

Querétaro's Tourism Ministry announced that Aeroméxico will expand its services with Mexico City starting next October 25. “This decision is recognized as a…
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Air India is seeking around $1.5 billion in new capital from its owners, Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, after reporting a record annual loss of 2 billion…

Middle Eastern low-cost carriers (LCCs) have managed to rapidly grow their capacity despite recent geopolitical disruptions affecting the region, according to…

The Secretary of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport, Jesús Esteva Medina, stated that aviation safety matters “will always have resources.” In an interview, at the end of…

The Argentine Navy will definitively retire its Super Étendard aircraft by the end of 2026, after these aircraft have remained
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SpaceX's space base in Texas maintains an intense pace of activity with the simultaneous advancement of Starship vehicles, Super Heavy boosters, and infrastructure aimed at increasing capacity…

The ATSB (Australia's transport safety investigation agency) announced the launch of a formal investigation after a fourth high-risk operational event was recorded…

So-called loitering munitions, colloquially known as kamikaze drones, will in future also be available for short-range use and no longer deployed only over long distances. After…

TDW Gesellschaft für verteidigungstechnische Wirksysteme mbH, a subsidiary of MBDA Deutschland, has demonstrated in a test trial the effect of the warhead system for the new loitering munition…

I intend to keep publishing, as often as possible, texts that speak beautifully about something as lovely as aviation, forgetting, at least for a while, the ugly side, which no doubt, sometimes…

The new head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), David Cummins, revealed that the Gold+ public-private partnership program for airport security will be abandoned…

You can catch the partial lunar eclipse live online here with these free livestreams starting at 9:23 p.m. EDT (0123 GMT).

The North American aerospace company SpaceX unveiled on Tuesday its project to build a spaceport in Louisiana, from where it plans to launch its giant Starship rocket and…

Aviación Digital, Sp.- SpaceX's launch cadence made history again in the early hours of August 25, 2026: in a single liftoff, the company logged its hundredth Falcon 9 launch…

Air Algérie continues its return to Berlin in the 2026/27 winter schedule as well, though it changes the routing. From October 31, the Algerian airline will fly once weekly to…

Aviación Digital, Sp.- On August 25, 2026, two astronauts completed outside the International Space Station a delicate repair that had been left unfinished a week earlier…

Embraer announced that its Phenom 300EV aircraft has received triple certification from Brazil's Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC), the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European…

The Aravalli engine will power the helicopter that replaces India’s long-serving Mi-17s. Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) and Safran Helicopter Engines have entered a contract their Indian joint venture…

The Council of Ministers held this Tuesday has authorized the signing of the Framework Agreement for the joint Spain-Poland acquisition of Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft. The value…

Curiosity’s hand-sized polygons resemble ancient wet-dry cracks elsewhere in Gale Crater, but NASA is testing several other origins before assigning this vast fracture field a water history. The…