The World of Aviation

The UK Royal Navy has signed a £550 million contract for new surface-attack missiles for its fleet of 17 F-35Bs, based at RAF Marham.

The Leonardo AW139 is set to become the new Presidential Transport helicopter in the Republic of Colombia.

WestJet is set to cut 30 per cent of its February and March capacity due to an “unprecedented” number of passenger cancellations.

The UK’s first Carrier Strike Group (CSG) in nearly three decades has achieved a major milestone ahead of its first operational deployment this year.

Divers in Indonesia have found body parts and wreckage from the Sriwijaya Air 737 that plunged more than 10,000 feet into the Java Sea on Saturday.

A Sriwijaya Air 737 has lost contact with air traffic control after reportedly falling more than 10,000ft in one minute into the Java Sea, north of Jakarta.