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Real-time aircraft tracking company spidertracks have deployed into Greece securing a deal with the largest general aviation fleet operator, Superior Air. Securing an operator in Greece is a first for spidertracks and brings the total number of countries with Spiders to 99. General Manager of Superior Air, Konstantinos Sofianos says his company selected spidertracks because […]

While Australia’s GA community has problems, in Greece, no GA community even exists. “Which is precisely why the International Council of Aircraft Owner and Pilot Associations (IAOPA) decided to hold their biennial World Assembly in Athens,” the group said this week. “Yiouli Kalafati, president of AOPA Hellas (Greece), wanted to show Greek authorities what they […]

A Boeing 737 flown by Helios Airways, a Cyprus airline, crashed into a mountainside north of Athens yesterday after the pilot reported problems with cabin air systems. There were no survivors. According to early reports, the jet departed from Cyprus at 9 a.m. and lost contact with controllers at 10:30 a.m. Two Greek F-16 fighter […]

Investigation finds no evidence of cyberattack in Jan. 4 communications blackout.

Interference on air traffic frequencies forced a shutdown of Greek airspace.

All six Canadian service members onboard died in the crash of CH-148 Cyclone off Greece in 2020.

Reports suggest the Chengdu J-10C shot down several Rafales over Kashmir.

Boeing has been awarded a $1.9 billion contract to produce 184 AH-64E Apache multirole combat helicopters for the U.S. Army and international customers. The contract covers 115 remanufactured Apaches with options for 15 additional aircraft for the Army and 54 aircraft for the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. Boeing noted that the order will include […]

The U.S. Army’s AH-64 Apache attack helicopter fleet has officially logged 5 million flight hours since the first AH-64A was delivered in 1984. According to Apache manufacturer Boeing, 1.3 million of those hours were flown during combat. The Army currently operates a fleet of more than 1,200 D- and E-model Apaches. “It is such a […]

Ryanair has been hitting more than its share of turbulence recently but some of it is the “artificial” kind. The Irish budget carrier does a lot of business delivering countrymen to “party islands” in Spain and Greece. The party sometimes starts long before the passengers get to the gate and flight attendants have a hard […]