By Garth Calitz Mozambique’s national airline has decided that if you are going to reinvent yourself, you might as well start with the name. Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique, better known to the aviation world simply as LAM, has begun a new chapter under the rather more internationally familiar name Air Mozambique, coinciding with the arrival of two Embraer E190s and an increasingly determined effort to drag the airline back towards operational stability. The timing is hardly acci

By Garth Calitz There are aircraft programmes that arrive with grand promises, enormous launch orders and enough PowerPoint slides to fill a hangar. Then there is the Embraer E-Jet, which quietly went about its business, convinced airlines that a 70- to 150-seat jet could actually be useful, and has now reached the rather significant milestone of 2,000 deliveries. Embraer celebrated the delivery of its 2,000th E-Jet on September 2, 2026, with the milestone aircraft, an E195-E

By Garth Calitz The Pretoria Airshow has now firmly established itself on South Africa’s aviation calendar, with the second edition of the event at Rhino Park on Saturday, 29 August delivering a day that combined serious flying with the increasingly important entertainment and family component that modern airshows require. Following the inaugural event over the Easter Weekend in 2025, this year’s show demonstrated that Rhino Park has become a significant player on the airshow

For most pilots taking delivery of a new aircraft on the opposite side of the world, the solution is relatively straightforward: put it in a container, load it onto a ship and wait for it to arrive. Australian pilot and aircraft owner David Green evidently had other ideas. Rather than dismantling his new CubCrafters Carbon Cub UL and shipping it from Washington State to Australia, Green climbed aboard, pointed the nose east and flew the aircraft home himself. Green’s aircraft

Saab’s latest Gripen has finally done what aircraft are generally expected to do: it left the ground. But while the first flight of a new aircraft is hardly an unusual event in the aviation world, the first flight of the Gripen F represents a significant milestone in one of the more ambitious international fighter-development partnerships of recent years. The two-seat Gripen F, developed by Saab in close cooperation with Brazilian industry, completed its maiden flight on 28 A

By Garth Calitz Long before the lights go out and 22 Formula 1 cars charge towards Turn One, an enormous aviation and logistics operation has already been underway for days. Cargo aircraft, helicopters, airports, trucks, medical crews and airspace managers all play their part in getting Formula 1 from one circuit to the next. For Formula 1 fans, the Grand Prix weekend appears to begin when the teams roll out of their garages on Friday morning. The reality is rather different.

By Des Waerden Amendment 36: What the Last 18 Months Have Taught Us Almost a year ago, I wrote an open letter to the General Aviation community about the withdrawal of AIC 18.19 and what I believed the issue was beginning to expose within our industry. At the time, Amendment 36 was still somewhere ahead of us, the outcome was far from certain, and much of that letter was a call for the GA community to get involved rather than simply accept the situation as the new status quo.

By Garth Calitz Amendment 36 offers a possible route back to flight for Part 91 aircraft grounded solely because their engines reached the infamous 12-year limit. In the past, owners of Part 91 aircraft reaching the engine’s 12-year calendar limit could mean only one thing: ground the aircraft, open the cheque book very wide and get in line for an overhaul — even when the engine had relatively few hours, good maintenance records and no obvious signs of distress. That situatio

The DTA JP1 is a two-seat hybrid-electric eVTOL that takes a somewhat different approach to the emerging personal electric aircraft market. Rather than relying entirely on batteries, the French-designed aircraft combines electric propulsion with a hybrid power system, allowing DTA to target substantially longer endurance than many small battery-electric aircraft. DTA says the JP1 can remain airborne for up to two hours, with a claimed range of approximately 180 miles with two

Textron Aviation has announced the delivery of the 500th Cessna Citation CJ4, marking more than a decade of production for the light business jet and providing a milestone for the programme as development of the next-generation Citation CJ4 Gen3 continues. The milestone aircraft, a Citation CJ4 Gen2, was delivered to a customer in the Philippines. The delivery also reflects the international customer base for the CJ4, which has been used for corporate transportation, owner-op