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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
On May 28, 2025, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Commander, Lieutenant General Eric Kenny, unveiled the RCAF liveries and designations for the fleets of aircraft that will be serving with the RCAF in the Future Aircrew Training (FAcT) program.
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
The signing of the agreement is linked to Prague’s purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and is said to build on previous discussions with Lockheed Martin and technology partner Collins Aerospace and confirms Aero’s readiness for technical collaboration on global defence programmes. It is presumed that the new Multi Sensor Reconnaissance Pod would equip Czech F-35As, and would then be integrated on F-35s operated by other air forces, if there is any demand.
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
This marked the end of an era in Canadian aviation, and by 29 May 2025 the airline had been fully integrated into WestJet. Sunwing Airlines Inc. was a Canadian low-cost airline headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with its main bases at Montréal–Trudeau International Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport.
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
On 29 May 2025, Gulf Air announced it had signed a lease-agreement with BOC Aviation for nine additional Airbus A320/A321neos. These will comprise six A320neos and three A321neos. All aircraft will be equipped with CFM LEAP-1A engines and are scheduled for delivery from this year until 2027.
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
The new-to-Raya aircraft is white overall, with ‘above+beyond’ in dark blue (the plus in orange) in large letters on the fuselage, orange nacelles and a ‘segmented’ empennage in blue, orange and grey. RAYA appears in a smaller font between the entrance door and the cargo door. The first aircraft painted in the new colour scheme is Boeing 767-232BDSF, 9M-RXE (c/n 22218).
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
The roll out event was attended by more than 500 guests, including key stakeholders from the Bavarian and Federal Government, industry partners, suppliers and regional, national and international media representatives. The high turnout demonstrates the considerable interest in Deutsche Aircraft’s innovative approach to sustainable aviation, and in the return of passenger aircraft manufacturing.
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
On 28 May 2025 Airbus announced that it had received an order for two more Airbus A220-100s for Air Niugini, the national flag carrier of Papua New Guinea. Air Niugini previously signed an initial order for six aircraft in 2023, and has lease agreements for three A220-300s signed with US-based lessor Azorra. The new order was disclosed just as the first A220 for Air Niugini entered final assembly at the Airbus facilities in Mirabel in Canada.
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
Angola is the world’s second largest Portuguese-speaking country (after Brazil), and has been targeted as Embraer’s best ‘prospect’ for a first KC-390 sale in Africa. Although Embraer has made several export sales of its new tactical transport aircraft, the company does not have any confirmed customers on the African continent, though advanced discussions have been reported with South Africa, Morocco, and Egypt.
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
Boeing’s social media post read: “It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s both! Vietnam Airlines marks 30 years with a bold new Lạc Bird livery on the 787 Dreamliner —a symbol of Vietnamese tradition and global vision.
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1 month ago | 
aerospaceglobalnews.com | Jon Lake
Robinson say that the R66 offers significant advantages as the US Army’s next rotorcraft trainer, and is offering a dedicated variant, provisionally named as the TH-66 Sage. This does not fit Army Helicopter naming conventions, since there has already been an H-66 (the Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche) and there is no Indian tribe called ‘Sage’ (there is an Osage tribe, and indeed a Hughes TH-55 Osage helicopter).
