Ethiopian Airlines on Wednesday signed a deal to buy 10 Boeing cargo planes, and its chief ​executive said the state-owned airline had ​the option to buy eight more.

F/A-XX has been a very highly anticipated contract award, especially after the Pentagon previously tried to freeze the program.

Alaska Airlines is adding premium economy seats and business class suites to its Boeing 787s and select transcontinental routes operated on its 737 Max 10s.

A Boeing 787-9 operated by flag carrier Vietnam Airlines recorded repeated brake inputs during takeoff before overrunning a runway and striking approach lighting at Munich Airport last month, according ​to an interim report by German investigators.

A Paris court convicted Swiftair of involuntary manslaughter over the 2014 Air Algérie AH5017 crash in Mali that killed all 116 people aboard.

SpaceX prepares Starship for its first orbital flight, aiming to deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites and test orbital operations and reentry.

SpaceX is poised to send its Starship-Super Heavy rocket to orbit for the first time in program history on Monday, Sept. 28. The orbital launch attempt of the 124-meter-tall (407 ft) rocket comes 18 years after the company’s first launcher, the Falcon 1, reached orbit for the first time.

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WASHINGTON — Satellite manufacturer Aerospacelab won a contract to supply two spacecraft platforms to Lockheed Martin, adding a major U.S. defense contractor to its customer base.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will attempt to go orbital for the first time ever on Monday morning (Sept. 28), and you can watch the historic action live.

Boeing has identified a previously undisclosed 737 MAX ​software glitch that could cause an automated navigation feature to fail ‌during landing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing company documents.

Getting an air sickness bag will now take an extra step passengers won't expect.

SpaceX is aiming higher with the next liftoff of its giant Starship rocket. Flight 14 will take the spacecraft to orbit for the very first time, and, if everything goes according to plan, deploy a group of brand-new Starlink satellites.

Southwest Airlines expects first deliveries only near the end of 2026 as Boeing prepares 27 previously Boeing 737 MAX 7 has finally received regulatory approval in the United States, but passengers may have to wait several more months before flying on the smallest member of the MAX family.

Turkish Airlines has finalized an order for 100 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, plus 50 options, following a delay over engine maintenance terms.

NASA’s Isaacman has shown a silhouette that evokes the famed SR-71 Blackbird as his agency pushes to get "back in the business of flying high and fast again.".

Bangladesh will buy a further 11 aircraft from Boeing , officials said on Wednesday, ​expanding national carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines' ‌planned orders to 25 jets as Dhaka seeks closer trade ties with the United States amid concerns ​over tariffs on its exports.

Azul adjusted its network after its E2s lost GPS reception when powered up on the ground. Embraer and Honeywell are investigating; a reset restores the signal only temporarily.

A USAF F-16 fighter jet has crashed near Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany. The pilot ejected and was injured, according to a base spokesperson.

Inbound Nouvelair jet aligned with wrong runway at night before overflying waiting EasyJet aircraft. French investigators probing a serious proximity event at Nice a year ago are exploring potential improvement in runway lighting requirements and use of surface-movement radar.

CCAs are participating in ever-more realistic demonstrations, including with crewed counterparts, as actual teaming trials are on the horizon.

A missile has reportedly struck a fuel storage tank at Riyadh King Khalid International Airport (RUH) in Saudi Arabia, sending a huge plume of thick black smoke into the sky over the city.

Malaysia Airlines is close to ordering around 10 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners, a move that would introduce a new aircraft type to the carrier and replace its small fleet of leased Airbus A350-900s.

Russia's Progress 96 cargo spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station today (Sept. 19), and you can watch the action live.

The pilots of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam to the Caribbean island of Curaçao were forced to make an emergency diversion on Thursday afternoon after a passenger’s power bank caught fire and exploded – the passenger is reported to be none other than one of KLM’s ex-Chief Executives.

NASA said Friday that the agency had given SpaceX a $946 million contract to fly three more astronaut missions to the International ​Space Station, extending the company's crewed flights to the station ‌through 2030.

Embraer has delivered the first Praetor 600E to Flexjet, starting deliveries of the updated super-midsize business jet to one of the world's largest fractional aircraft operators.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Boeing exemption from fuel-efficiency limits beginning in 2028, enabling the sale of more 777F freighters.

US bankruptcy court approves initial €140 million in finance to support Latvian carrier's Chapter 11 restructuring. Air Baltic has secured court approval for the critical funding it requires to maintain operations as it embarks on its US Chapter 11 restructuring process.

Record order for 103 aircraft converts a commitment announced in 2025 into a firm deal valued at US$36.2 Korean Air has finalized its order for 103 Boeing aircraft , converting a preliminary agreement announced in August 2025 into the largest aircraft order in the South Korean carrier's history.

NBC4 Los Angeles said the helicopter belonged to the station. The authorities did not immediately confirm how many people were aboard.

SpaceX is targeting Sept. 22 for Starship's first-ever orbital launch, a landmark flight that will deploy 26 Starlink satellites and last about 10 hours.

An Avio Vega-C rocket zipped off the launch pad Monday night from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. This was the eighth launch to date of the 34.8-meter-tall (114.2 ft.) rocket and the second of 2026.

In the interest of protecting the slow ramp-up of 737 Max production across its facilities and ensuring that certification progress continues on the Max 10 and 777X programs, Boeing is highly motivated to avoid a workers’ strike.

“What we've done cuts against the conventional wisdom,” Swarm co-founder and chief revenue officer Oliver Palmer told Breaking Defense. “And what we've done instead is create a very simple, non-stealthy aircraft that's optimized for extreme range.”.

Latvia's airBaltic voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in New York, it said on Monday, ​as it seeks to restructure its debt pile and survive a deepening sector-wide crisis brought on by the Iran war.

Amazon.com Inc. suspended work with cargo carrier 21 Air LLC, which operated the Sept. 6 flight that overran the runway at Miami and killed five people on the ground.

Avio S.p.A., the Italian prime contractor, launch service provider, and launch operator for the Vega C light satellite launcher, is poised to fly the VV30 mission with the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-3C and FLEX spacecraft riding aboard a single Vega C rocket from the ELV launch pad at Kourou, French Guiana.

Representative Tom Tiffany, the Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor, said he and his pilot swam to safety after ​a plane in which they were traveling lost ‌power and made an emergency water landing on a lake in central Wisconsin, sustaining minor injuries.

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Rocket Lab has filed a protest against NASA's decision to award Blue Origin a $700 million Mars orbiter contract, saying it's inconsistent with the eligibility rules laid out by Congress.

Support Contact Newsroom Print Page Preparing for print Commercial Aviation brief Lufthansa Airbus A321-200N (logo), © Oliver Roesler (Lufthansa) By Hilka Birns 11Sep2026 LinkedIn X Facebook Copy news link RSS Feed Deutsche Lufthansa AG has issued a regulatory holdings update, formally recording that Kühne Aviation GmbH holds an indirect stake of just over 20% in the German flag carrier, equivalent to 240.4 million indirect voting rights.

From left, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot and Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, are seated in chairs wearing orange jumpsuits.

Air Cairo (SM, Cairo International) has placed its first direct order with Airbus, signing a firm agreement for the purchase of fifteen A320neo aircraft at the El Alamein International Airshow 2026.

Flights at major British airports were ​disrupted on Tuesday by a technical fault at air traffic control provider NATS, the latest in a series of failures that renewed ‌questions about the resilience of Britain's aviation infrastructure.

Afcom (O9, Chennai) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Boeing for up to four B777-8Fs as it looks to expand into long-haul cargo operations, the company announced in a stock exchange filing on September 2, 2026.

Stoke Space announced that it has closed an initial $1B tranche of a Series E round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $2.3B.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again - space is hard. Another example, albeit lacking in the destructive displays of some past examples, is China’s recent delay of its Chang’e-7 lunar mission.