On 4 November 2025, Embraer officially cancelled its long-mooted development of a 70- to 90-seat next-generation turboprop aircraft, confirming that the project is no longer merely deferred but terminated. The decision was announced during the company’s third-quarter earnings call, with CEO Francisco Gomes Neto stating that the firm currently “has no project or initiative in...

Nepal imported aircraft spare parts worth $28.74 million in the first two months of fiscal year 2025/26, a 357.7 percent increase from $6.13 million in the same period last year, according to NepseTrading. The rise is the highest among all major import categories tracked by Nepal Rastra Bank for the period. Nepal’s aviation sector is small...

Last year, a F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet, crashed off the airfield at the Albuquerque International Sunport in New Mexico after it had stopped at Kirtland Air Force Base for refueling. One important thing to note is that the F-35B Lightning II falls in the list of the United States Marine Corps (USMC)’s...

On the outside, it might seem that Boeing produced planes that have names that start and end with 7: the 747 is known as the Queen of the Skies, the 787 is the aerospace giant’s Dreamliner, the 737 is the model used by the budget airline that helped aviation coin the term “Southwest Effect, just...

In May 2005, helicopter pilot Didier Delsalle did what was impossible: landing at the top of Mount Everest on a helicopter. Incidentally, the first summit of the Everest was completed by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Edmund Hillary in the same month more than half a century ago, in 1953. These two people after whom the...

Much in line with how Boeing planes start and end with the number seven, most of Airbus’ planes start with the letter A followed by the number 3. Perhaps the most iconic of Airbus A3xx series is the double-decker airliner that is the Airbus A380, which is the biggest passenger aircraft to have ever been...

The United States of America tops the list of the nation with the highest number of fatal civil airliner accidents from 1945 until now – the nation has seen 870 accidents and 10846 fatalities (133 are ground fatalities). Next in line is Russia, the nation with which the United States of America was at loggerheads...

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has a rather delightful program called PUPs, or Pets Unstressing Passengers. There were around 93 dogs in this airport to “spread the love at LAX’s gate areas at each terminal’s departures levels“. But these PUPs don’t board the flight. Bark Air’s introduction marked the first airline dedicated solely to the...

Concorde was an aircraft that had come after fourteen years of collaboration between France and Britain. It was sleek, agile, and had cruised at greater than Mach 2, allowing it to cross the pond in less than two hours. This aircraft saw passenger operations as far back as 1976, prompting to ask if one could...