The AGORA project takes off to consolidate Andalusia as a benchmark in the unmanned aerial vehicles sector Airbus and Fada-Catec join forces to develop a set of technologies for the safe integration of drones in airspace The Regional Minister of University, Research and Innovation, José Carlos Gómez Villamandos, has presented the AGORA project (Experimental Air Traffic Management Unit for Autonomous [...]
The Republic of Kazakhstan orders two Airbus A400Ms
The first delivery is scheduled for 2024 The Republic of Kazakhstan has placed an order for two Airbus A400M aircraft and becomes the ninth operator together with Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Malaysia and Luxembourg. With delivery of the first aircraft scheduled in 2024, the contract includes a complete suite of maintenance and training support. Together with the [...]
Airbus delivers 200th C295
The global aircraft fleet reaches this milestone with a new delivery to the Royal Canadian Air Force Airbus Defense and Space delivered the aircraft to the customer at its Medium and Light Aircraft assembly line in San Pablo, Seville. In the coming days, the aircraft will complete its ferry flight to Wing 19 of the Canadian Forces Base in Comox, [...]
Airbus delivers the 100th A400M
The milestone aircraft includes all new certified capabilities Airbus has reached 100 A400M deliveries with MSN111, the tenth A400M for the Spanish Air Force. The aircraft performed its ferry flight on 24th May from Seville to Zaragoza, where the Spanish A400M fleet is based. In the same week, the A400M global fleet also achieved the 100,000 flight-hours landmark performing missions [...]
Royal Australian Air Force benefits from Airbus SmartForce digital services
Airbus has recently signed a contract to provide a digital services focus for the maintenance of the Air Refueling Boom System (ARBS) on the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (A330 MRTT) fleet. Based on the Airbus suite of digital services SmartForce, this service is intended to support the operator in reducing maintenance costs and improving fleet [...]