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On 20 September 1906, at Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson’s Wallsend yard on the River Tyne, Cunard launched the liner RMS Mauretania. The Duchess of R...
On 20 September 1967, at John Brown’s yard in Clydebank, Queen Elizabeth II launched the liner Cunard named Queen Elizabeth 2 — with an Arabic numeral...
On 19 September 1783, in the forecourt of the Palace of Versailles, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier sent aloft a hot-air balloon carryin...
On 19 September 1989 a UTA DC-10 bound for Paris broke up over the Ténéré Desert in Niger. The aircraft had left Brazzaville, with a stop in N'Djamena...
September 19, 2026 marks 50 years since the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 452, one of the deadliest accidents in Turkish civil aviation. The Aviati...
On 17 September the FAA approved a waiver from emissions rules that, from 1 January 2028, would have stopped sales of the Boeing 777F in its current c...
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18 September 2026 marks 98 years since the first English Channel crossing by a rotorcraft. The Vertical Flight Society dates the flight to Tuesday 18...
Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto called on Friday for a stronger naval presence in the Red Sea to escort merchant ships as tensions rise around...
NATS, the UK’s air-traffic-control operator, said on Friday that last week’s outage was a software defect in part of its flight-data system. Reuters r...
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airBaltic has received initial approval from a US bankruptcy judge to continue its restructuring under Chapter 11, according to Reuters and a statemen...
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