Civil aviation news
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August 14, 2026
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The route to the Catalan capital will launch in October and compete directly with Aegean Airlines and Vueling.
The route to the Catalan capital will begin in October and will compete directly with Aegean Airlines and Vueling.
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August 13, 2026
A Greek aerospace startup is developing an aircraft that could change the way wildfires are fought from the air. The project, called Quencher, envisions an aircraft…
Special Operations units, which are usually assigned unconventional tasks and missions that exceed the capabilities of conventional military forces, tend to…
August 7, 2026
International Airport of Heraklion Crete SA (IAHC), the company behind the new Heraklion international airport in Crete, has awarded Indra, in consortium with Greek firm ATESE…
August 4, 2026
Greece too, as part of an extensive procurement program for its armed forces, plans to acquire, among other things, three new Embraer C-390 Millennium transport aircraft to replace the now…
August 3, 2026
Two crew members were killed after two firefighting helicopters collided mid-air in Greece on August 3, 2026, while… The post Two firefighting crew killed after helicopters collide in Greece…
August 2, 2026
Two Bell 214ST helicopters collided during a wildfire-fighting mission in Greece. Two people died
Two Bell firefighting helicopters collided mid-air while battling a major wildfire near Psatha, west of Athens, on Sunday, killing two crew members and highlighting the dangers faced by aerial…
July 29, 2026
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Greece will acquire three Embraer C-390 Millennium military transport aircraft in a deal worth about €600 million. Greece’s security council approved it on 23 July. This replaces aging C-130…
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July 26, 2026
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Decision follows months of signals that Athens had selected the Brazilian transport to replace part of its C-130 Hercules fleet
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July 17, 2026
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a Ryanair (Malta Air) 737-800 suffers an uncontained engine failure after departing Thessaloniki, Greece, resulting in a shattered cabin window and a passenger…
July 10, 2026
A passenger on a Ryanair flight from the Greek holiday resort of Thessaloniki was reportedly partially sucked out of the plane’s window when it suffered an explosive decompression on Friday morning…
