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Also: MOSAIC Unfiltered, Skytron, Texas Aircraft, EAGLE Draft Plan, Stolen Vans RV-12 Recovered Bushliner’s new backcountry airplane project is off to a great start, logging more than 130 reservations from 14 countries in just seven days. About two-thirds of reservations came from states with strong bush, utility, or adventure-flying cultures, including Texas, California, Alaska, Florida, Washington, Utah, and Idaho. Sonex’s long-awaited Highwing project is beginning to ship out a round of tail kits. Deliveries and factory pickups began mid-January, with orders scheduled to roll out through mid-February as the company transitions to fuselage and quick build kit production. Bristell flew…

Private investment firm Bain Capital has entered the US fixed-base operator market with the acquisition of APP Jet Center, marking its first direct move into the aviation services infrastructure sector.  Bain Capital said it acquired the five-location FBO platform from Ridgewood Infrastructure. Financial terms were not disclosed. Former Signature Aviation CEO Mark Johnstone will lead the business.  APP Jet Center operates at five airports across the United States, serving business and general aviation customers at Opa-locka Executive Airport in South Florida, Washington Dulles International Airport, Centennial Airport near Denver, and two locations in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, including San Jose Mineta International Airport. The…

Jan. 30, 2026, (c) Leeham News: Members of the engineers and technicians union at Boeing Wichita (the former Spirit AeroSystems plant) approved a 4.8 year contract 85.8% to 14.2%. “The contract was approved by a 671 to 111 vote of dues-paying members of SPEEA’s Wichita Technical & Professional Unit (WTPU),” the union announced tonight. “The average WTPU-represented worker will be making more than $117,000 a year when this contract is done in 2030. In addition, we’ll see significant improvements to our health care benefits with lower premiums, we’ll have more days off from work and we’ll have a higher incentive…

A Wildcat helicopter conducted simulated Martlet missile strikes on moving targets at the National Drone Hub, Predannack, using live data provided by Puma and Providence UAVs.  The trials, involving a Wildcat from 815 Naval Air Squadron (NAS), uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) from 700X NAS at nearby RNAS Culdrose, and support from 847 NAS and industry partners MarWorks, TeleplanForsberg, General Dynamics, C3IA, UAV Aerosystems and Collins Aerospace, took place not long after the National Drone Hub at Predannack Airfield, Cornwall, hosted the maiden flight of the Proteus helicopter. A Wildcat helicopter conducted simulated Martlet missile strikes on moving targets at the National…

Recently emerged images show a Mi-28NE helicopter in a hangar geolocated in Iran, following reports of multiple Russian Il-76MD cargo aircraft flying into the country. Photos emerged on Jan. 28, 2026, show what has been described as a single Mi-28NE Havoc in an Iranian facility. Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) profiles later geo-located the pictures of the aircraft, bearing only a pixelated desert camouflage and no markings, to the Pars Aerospace Services Company in Tehran. Now largely believed to be true and confirmed by independent Iran defense profiles, the arrival of the attack helicopter in the country was first hinted by journalist…

USAF F-35As deployed to Puerto Rico for the attack on Venezuela might now be part of what Trump called a ‘massive armada’ moving towards Iran. In recent days, a series of U.S. military movements have drawn heightened attention across the Middle East. These developments have coincided with ongoing regional tensions following domestic unrest in Iran and threats of a new U.S. attack against the country. Many assets were observed moving to the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR), although official details remain limited. However, publicly available information and press releases suggest a broader pattern of readiness activities and…

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Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn from service in 2006.  A memorandum dated Dec. 4, 2025 from the office of Christopher J. Scolese, Director of the U.S. National Reconaissance Office (NRO), formally declassified the existence of and some details regarding the agency’s first generation of signals intelligence (SIGINT) satellites. Known under the codename JUMPSEAT, seven satellites (eight were built, with one failing to reach orbit), each weighing around 700 kilograms, orbited the Earth in highly elliptical orbits (HEO) known as Molniya orbits.Launched between…

To ensure future missions such as last summer’s strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities can succeed, the U.S. Air Force must improve the way it securely transmits critical information with bombers and other aircraft securely transmit critical information, a top general said Thursday.The June 22 B-2 Spirit bomber-led strikes dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer — which used Massive Ordnance Penetrator weapons encased in nearly 26,000 pounds of steel to drive through 200 feet of mountain rock and destroy three deeply buried nuclear facilities — were a success of engineering, intelligence and coordination, Lt. Gen. Jason Armagost, deputy commander of Air Force Global…