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The first issue of this year includes our annual airline safety review, with detailed analysis and a full listing of 2025’s fatal accidents and notable other incidents.
Airbus and Boeing landed gross orders for a combined 2,175 commercial jets last year, while completing deliveries of 1,393 aircraft – we assess their performance, and detail the lifetime narrowbody sales lead now held by the A320 family.
Also this issue: the US Navy advanced work ahead of its future fielding of Collaborative Combat Aircraft; NASA prepares for its second flight with the X-59 quiet supersonic demonstrator; Vertical Aerospace unveils new-look Valo; Beta Technologies flies further; and Tekever puts the AR3 Evo through its paces.
We look ahead to the Singapore air show, with a preview piece looking at fighter contests in Southeast Asia. And our environment special report details the raft of new projects being proposed for inclusion in the next phase of the EU-led Clean Aviation effort.
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While the total number of deadly airliner accidents remained statistically low last year, two high-profile commercial losses in India and the USA contributed to a major spike in fatalities, which reached 420.
Airbus and Boeing faced different – and in Spirit AeroSystems, common – challenges last year as they battled to raise rates and satisfy market demand, while Seattle also received a sales boost from the ‘Trump effect’.
Kerstin Mumenthaler, the chief executive of Axis Aviation, is a 6,000h commercial pilot and was a risk-management consultant before taking the top job at the Swiss aircraft management and charter company.
A project to create the world’s largest airport in the Dubai desert has been two decades in the making – and soon Emirates and its fellow airlines must relocate from the city to Al Maktoum International.
If the recent ICAO Assembly resulted in little by way of concrete new sustainability developments, it did provide reminders of political thinking, ongoing challenges and potential battlegrounds ahead.
With no early aviation ambitions, Julie Black’s chance encounter with a London City Airport job launched a 30-year career that has taken her from rocking all over the world to managing complex private jet operations for high-net-worth clients.
After announcing an ambitious plan to increase its armed forces’ capabilities via a budget boost, the UK is drawing closer to confirming which programmes will benefit from major investment.
In an interview with FlightGlobal, newly appointed commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force Lieutenant-General Jamie Speiser-Blanchet says her service remains committed to a sweeping set of modernisations, including fielding Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighters.
Air India states it has found no issues with the fuel-control switch locking mechanisms on its Boeing 787 fleet, after inspections prompted by the crash at Ahmedabad last month.
Airbus is making progress on its dedicated A350 freighter, with workstations in Toulouse now adapted and deliveries scheduled to take off in just over two years.
The UK government has published its eagerly-awaited Strategic Defence Review (SDR), but provided only limited detail about many key future investment decisions.
Sarah Talucci, founder and president of 315 Aviation – a brokerage that specialises in high-end aircraft transactions – is working to expose more young women to potential career pathways in the aerospace industry.
