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Spirit Airlines has secured US Bankruptcy Court approval for a $475 million debtor-in-possession financing facility and a key settlement with its largest aircraft lessor, AerCap. The approvals mark a major step in the airline’s ongoing Chapter 11 restructuring.  The financing is provided by Spirit’s existing bondholders, with $200 million immediately accessible to support operations during the reorganization.  Under the approved agreement with AerCap, the lessor will pay Spirit $150 million, Spirit will reject leases on 27 AerCap aircraft, and all outstanding claims between the parties will be resolved. The deal is part of Spirit’s effort to reduce fixed costs and…

The U.S. Army has not yet terminated the Improved Turbine Engine Program despite the service proposing to end the program as part of its major transformation initiative laid out in May.While the service continues to look at different courses of action with the program, it has continued its testing program. The Army had already installed the General Electric-designed engine, designed to replace all the engines in both UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters, into a Black Hawk at Sikorsky’s facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.The aircraft first flew in May with the new engine and has since been tested…

Virgin Atlantic has announced that the new year will mark a change in Chief Executive Officer, with Shai Weiss stepping down from the position after seven years. During this time, the British long-haul carrier has come to terms with the impacts of (and bounced back from) the coronavirus pandemic, as well as undertaking an impressive fleet modernization program with the delivery of next-generation widebodies. His replacement will be Corneel Koster, who has spent more than nine years at the airline across two spells in a wide variety of different roles. While Weiss’s departure represents the end of an era for…

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has unveiled the S-70UAS U-Hawk, a fully autonomous variant of the UH-60 Black Hawk designed to operate as a heavy-lift cargo drone. Developed in just ten months, the prototype replaces the Black Hawk’s cockpit with actuated clamshell doors and a loading ramp, transforming the crewed helicopter into a platform capable of operating without pilots on board. Equipped with MATRIX™ autonomy software and a new fly-by-wire system, the aircraft can take off, fly, and land entirely under autonomous control. Credit: Sikorsky “We developed this prototype from concept to reality in under a year,” said Rich Benton,…

PARIS — Denmark will buy 16 additional F-35 jets, invest in air defenses and maritime patrol aircraft and add to its fleet of Arctic-ready patrol vessels as part of a military spending package through to 2033 worth 88 billion Danish kroner ($13.7 billion), the government said.The government is budgeting 29 billion kroner for more F-35s to bring the total planned fleet to 43 aircraft, the Danish Ministry of Defense said in a statement late Friday. Denmark operates 15 of the stealthy jets, and expects delivery of its existing order for 27 fighters to be completed in 2026.“Expanding the fleet of…

The concept of reciprocity when it comes to entry requirements for travel is nothing new. One country might start requiring visas for visitors from a certain country, and then that country introduces a similar policy. Well, here’s an extreme example of that… Americans traveling to Mali will be required to post bondRecently, the United States announced plans to require visitors from select countries to post bond in order to get a visa. In the spirit of reciprocity, the West African nation of Mali has announced plans to require passport holders from the United States to post a bond of up…

Few airliners symbolize both bold ambition and the turning tides of aviation like the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and its successor, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11. Superficially, they share a trijet layout: two wing engines and a tail engine. But beneath that lie dramatic differences in design, systems, and operational destiny. In our article, you’ll trace the lineage from Douglas to McDonnell Douglas, explore each aircraft in depth, compare them side by side, and look at their current status — including why trijets all but vanished completely. The Douglas Legacy & The Rise Of The Trijet Credit: Wikimedia Commons McDonnell Douglas’s story begins…

Alongside the arrival of Belgium’s first F-35A Lightning II fighters at Florennes Air Base, the Belgian government has signed a new agreement with Pratt & Whitney, the RTX subsidiary that manufactures the F135 engine powering the aircraft. The agreement, announced on October 13, 2025, during the F-35 delivery ceremony, will expand Belgium’s role in the global F-35 industrial network by enabling local production of key engine components. Under the new deal, Safran Aero Boosters will establish manufacturing capabilities for selected F135 components at its facility in Milmort, near Liège. The agreement also consolidates a long-standing partnership with BMT Aerospace, based…

Subscription Required By Scott Hamilton Oct. 13, 2025, © Leeham News: As the commercial airliner industry sprints to the end of this year, Boeing remains the champion in the widebody, twin-aisle sector with a commanding lead over Airbus. Figure 1 But the European manufacturer is the blow-out victor in the more important narrowbody, single-aisle sector where between 80% and 85% of the sales are made. Boeing has 59% of the widebody backlog to Airbus’ 41%. These are the only two companies competing in this sector. In the more crowded single-aisle 125-240 seat sector, Airbus has a 54% market share to…