Aviation News, June

[B777LR]

Olod news first

Australia buys Super Honret

First export Typhoon airborne (austrian example)

F-35 procurement caution urged

Airbus A-400M static test frame coming together, engine to be tested on a C-130

USAF tanker proposals submitted

CSAR-X stalled, HH-47 Chinook was originally selected

Upgraded AWACS flies (looks like its got cancer of some sort)

ARH problems continue

Block 20 Global Hawk delivered

L-159 trainer flies

Finland receives C-295

Finland selects litening pod for F-18s

Grob trainers delivered to france

Italy sends Mangustas to Afganistan

Swedish NH-90 flies

New Eurofighter capabilities being introduced

Dutch F-16s goes to ohio

Albania receives A109

Lockheed marting to upgrade 6 norwegian P-3Cs

French navy approved to buy secondhand E-2C from USN

Luftwaffe tornadoes deployed to afganistan

Swiss AF buys PC-21

Turkey selects Mangusta

RAF gets more EH-101s. These are 6 RDAF examples that where delivered in 2005. They are also to get 8 Chinook HC-3s operational.

No 11 Squadron (RAF) gets Typhoons

RAF celebrates 25 years of Tornado ops

RAF has ordered 2 General Atomics Predator Bs

First 6 F-117s go into storage at Tonopah

F-22A increases capabilities by carrying 4 small diameter bombs in one bomb bay. The F-22 can deliver these bombs from 111 km away

F-22As deployed to japan

A USAF Global Hawk returns from Iraq under own power, after 250 sorties flown

Dover AFB prepares for C-17A

Sniper pod tested on B-1B

200th T-45 Goshawk delivered

The Catbird 737 begins F-35 testing

A VS-22 "Checkmates" S-3B Viking has been painted in the retro 1970s style livery  (but with wrong shade of grey)

BAe systems has gotten an order to convert 20 further F-4s into QF-4s

Last T-2C Buckeye retired

Last T-37B instructors graduate

USAF to buy 2 Challenger 604 to replace 2 C-21As as test aircraft

58th Special operations wing will retire the last of its MH-53M Pave Low IIIs

USS John F. Kennedy has been decomissioned

USS Saipan has been decomissioned

First MQ-9A Reaper UAV delivered to the 42nd Attack squadron. This squadron previously flew F-16s (im glad im not one of those pilots)

188th fighter wing transitions from F-16 to A-10 (im glad im not one of those pilot either)

First indian Hawk flies

Embraer looks at a new C-130 rival

Iraqi air force plane to have 50-60 helicopters by the end of the year, as well as jet fighters next year (let the speculations begin!)

Canadian CC-150 tanker delivered

Canadian C-17A has entered final assembly stage

Saudi Tornado Upgrade underway in the UK

First australian MRH-90 flies

India retires Canberra bombers

India to upgrade 78 Mig-29, and is to order 197 AS550C3 helicopters

US army to sell 2 Huey IIs to Kazakstan

Azerbadjan has displayed its new Mig-29s

Ghana gets first K-8 jet trainers

Now for some bad news:

A USMC F-18C crashed on takeoff from the USS John C Stennis

A US army UH-60 has crashed in alabama

F-16C crashed at tonopah

F-16 crashed in florida

A USMC UH-1N crashed in kenya

A US army OH58 crashed in iraq

A UH-60 crashed in iraq, possibly due to ground fire

other crashes:

A pakistani mirage
A nigerian A109E
A Sweish gripen
A RAF Hawk T1
A portuguese Alouette III
A Guinean Mig-21U
2 RAF Puma HC1s in mid air collision in iraq
A luftwaffe tornado in switzerland
A indian Cheetah helicopter
A french Mirage F-1C in Chad
A 2 seat indian sea harrier
A chinese UH-1H
A Japanese CH-47J
A thai Bell 214ST
2 Russian Mig-29s in mid air collision over ukraine
A british army Lynx AH7 crashed in orthern ireland
A frénch TB30 Epsilon
A pakistani FT-7PG
A Georgian Mi-24
An Ethiopean Mi-24 shot down over mogadishu
Indian Mig-21 broke up midair
A Peruvian Bell 212 hit a mountain


     

[Shasper]

Like you said, dated info. Still very informative!


Shas B)

[Iranian F-14A]

I live pretty close to the Springfield ANG base where those dutch F-16s will be based at.Sould be interesting to see those fly over.I'm still waiting for some Polish,UAE or Chilean models.I talked to one of their guys at last years Dayton air Show and he confirmed that they were going to be training international crews for new viper opertors.

[Archibald]

French navy approved to buy secondhand E-2C from USN

 Never heard about this one... Aeronavale already had to struggle for years to have only THREE new-build Hawkeyes...

Indian Mig-21 broke up midair

Another one bite the dust... how long will this last ?  

[Nigel Bunker]

It's like reading last month's news.

[B777LR]

It's like reading last month's news.

Well, it is the june-juli issue  

[Captain Canada]

Tough crowd, eh ?

I had no idea the Polaris was back in town....good stuff ! Can't wait to see a refuelling demo with our Hornets.

 

[elmayerle]

The CATBIRD is now at Fort Worth (for locals, it's in the shelter right by the gate) and is being completed using as much of the production structure as possible in the nose section.  From the layouts I've seen, it's quite crowded on the inside.