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defense   UAV Development & Drone Programs   General Atomics   Military Aircraft Procurement   Asia-Pacific (APAC)  
FlightGlobal • Greg Waldron

India signs ₹1,943 crore, 30-month lease for two General Atomics MQ-9B SeaGuardians

India’s Defence Ministry has contracted General Atomics Aeronautical Systems to lease two MQ-9B SeaGuardian high-altitude, long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft systems to the Indian Navy for 30 months. The drones will support maritime domain awareness, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance across the Indian Ocean Region.

Also: ANI News Agency, Economic Times and newsable.asianetnews.com
2026-08-17T22:50:07.512691-07:00
aviation   MRO   Accident   Aviation Safety & Regulation  
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FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

Qantas A380 flew two long-haul sectors with maintenance lamp inadvertently left in wing

By FlightGlobal: Control procedures under scrutiny after missing tool undetected before aircraft released back to service. Australian carrier Qantas has initiated work on using new technology for tool control, and revised its tool procedures, after an incident in which a maintenance lamp was left inside an Airbus A380 wing.

2026-08-18T00:05:19.747514-07:00
aviation   China   Orders   Aircraft Manufacturing (OEMs)   Asia-Pacific (APAC)   Airlines   COMAC  
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ch-aviation • Dirk Andrei Salcedo

China's Shenzhen Airlines and Loong Air eye C919s

By ch-aviation: Shenzhen Airlines (ZH, Shenzhen) and Loong Air (GJ, Hangzhou) have expressed interest in adding C919s, the South China Morning Post newspaper reported, citing statements by executives from both airlines at an aviation forum in Guangzhou.

2026-08-17T20:20:08.713804-07:00
aviation   eVTOL   Sustainability & Climate Initiatives   Airlines   Beta Technologies  
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ch-aviation • Dirk Andrei Salcedo

Air New Zealand says ALIA too small to be cost-effective

By ch-aviation: Support Contact Newsroom Print Page Preparing for print Commercial Aviation Air New Zealand Beta Technologies ALIA CX300, © Air New Zealand By Dirk Andrei Salcedo 18Aug2026 LinkedIn X Facebook Copy news link RSS Feed Air New Zealand (NZ, Auckland International ) has asked Beta Technologies ( Burlington, VT ) to examine a larger battery-electric aircraft after concluding that the ALIA CX300 used in its recent demonstrator programme was too small to be cost-effective, chief executive officer Nikhil Ravishankar told New Zealand news outlet Newsroom.

2026-08-17T18:13:26.048992-07:00