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DAHER-SOCATA has received a Major Change Approval (MCA) from EASA for an ISR multi mission version of its TBM 700 and 850 turboprops. The MCA will allow DAHER-SOCATA to begin marketing their TBM-MMA demonstrator to potential customers. The aircraft is fitted with a retractable Thales AGILE 2 gyro-stabilised multi-sensor turret under the aircraft’s aft fuselage

A Boeing A160T unmanned helicopter, dubbed YMQ-18A by the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), has crashed while undergoing foliage penetrating radar tests in the Central American country of Belize. The aircraft, owned by SOCOM but operated by Boeing contractors, reportedly lost tail rotor authority on approach to landing and crashed on the edge of a

Boeing has reorganised its Military Aircraft (BMA) business, consolidating it from six divisions to four and cutting senior management. The reorganisation is to take effect from October 1 and will result in four new divisions; Global Strike based in St Louis, Mobility based in Ridley Park near Philadelphia, Surveillance and Engagement based in Seattle, and

British Airways CEO Willie Walsh says that it and merger partner Iberia are looking at further acquisitions, raising the prospect that Qantas may again be a target for a merger with the European airlines. Walsh told the Financial Times that there were 12 potential targets of the International Airlines Group, which is the new holding

The Victorian government has scrapped plans to again lease a DC-10 Airtanker over the coming fire season, and will instead add a number of smaller aircraft to its fire fighting fleet. The DC-10, which is capable of carrying more than 40 tonnes of water or retardant, was brought into Victoria last summer in a joint

Caloundra aerodrome will remain at its current location after the Sunshine Coast Regional Council failed to win Queensland government support to move it. Moving the aerodrome was proposed as part of a major plan by the Council to turn the site into a new central business district for the town, with the aerodrome and its