While the actual life of an aircraft depends on the number of cycles and hours it runs, most modern commercial airliners are ...

The ATR 72 has four main civilian variants: The ATR 72-200, ATR 72-210, ATR 72-500, and the ATR 72-600. The ATR 72-200 was the first one to enter service, and it has a standard seating ...

BAE Systems (LON: BA) has received a $12 million contract from L3Harris to support the modification of two Gulfstream G550 aircraft into airborne electronic attack (EA) platforms for the Italian Air ...

However, new airframes are not the end of the story. In fact, they are barely the beginning. Listen to how Boeing, one of the competitors for the Black Hawk successor, describes what the Army is ...

The Royal Air Force retired its Harrier IIs in 2010, while the U.S. military has announced plans to retire its airframes by the end of 2027. Sukhoi SU-25 Frogfoot. Pavel Byrkin/Getty Images.

Dornier Seawings has tapped the production resources available at Diamond Aircraft’s London, Ontario factory to produce the composite airframes for the new Seastar amphibious twin.

AirFrames Alaska specializes in outdoor recreational and aviation equipment that withstands harsh Arctic conditions, from sleds that haul big game to bushwheels for small planes landing on the tundra.

True to word, Polaris has unveiled two new, yet-to-be-fully completed airframes in a recent LinkedIn post. The MIRA II and III are identical 16.4 ft (5 m) ...

U.S. President Joe Biden has used the Sikorsky VH-92A Patriot as Marine One for the first time, just after the last of 23 VH-92A airframes were delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps.

Designing a drone body is about settling on the right compromise. Multirotor drones excel at vertical lift and hover, while fixed wing drones are great at both distance and wide-open spaces. In ...

The video, released by the IDF, shows the moment the drones hit the aircraft on the ground, destroying both airframes. The F-14, a long-retired type in the U.S. Navy, remains (or remained ...

Pressure to cut costs is sending airframes outside airline shops and often far from home markets. Labor rates, which represent up to 70% of heavy-check costs, simply differ too much among regions ...