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Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Aircraft leasing used to be fairly predictable. Rising interest rates pushed up borrowing costs, lease rates climbed, and airlines paid more to add capacity. When borrowing costs eventually f

Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) A weather forecasting image generated by eWAS. Photo: SITAONAIR For all the advances aviation has made over the past century, one challenge has never gone away: weather. Storms, turbulence, i

Pictured is a U.S. Air Force photo in May of personnel at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho loading a BDU-56 inert practice bomb onto an F-15EX fighter with the Oregon Air National Guard's 142nd Wing, the first one to receive F-15EXs for operations. The U.S. Air F

Performance Drone Works' new Drone Factory 01 in Huntsville, Alabama. Photo: PDW Flexing new authorities to dramatically increase its loan commitments, the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) has made a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 m

Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Logos of Airbus and Boeing. The order books at the 2026 Farnborough International Airshow told an encouraging story for Boeing. When the four-day event wrapped up on July 24, the U.S. aerospa

Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Pictured is a BAE Systems depiction of Brontanax Collaborative Combat Aircraft. Editor's Note: To watch John's video presentation of this article, click here. The image of the lone fighter ac

Pictured is a U.S. Air Force photo of an Anduril Industries YFQ-44A flying over Edwards AFB, Calif. during a test by Air Combat Command's Experimental Operations Unit. DAYTON, Ohio-Pratt & Whitney's Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for the F-35 fighter's F135 en

Pictured is a U.S. Air Force photo of a B-52H with Barksdale AFB, La.'s 2nd Bomb Wing, as the bomber sits on the flightline at Morón Air Base, Spain on Nov. 19, 2025 during Bomber Task Force Europe 26-1. DAYTON, Ohio-The Air Force is modifying a B-52H to

Image: GE Aerospace and Shield AI Shield AI and GE Aerospace on Monday said they have completed integration of an advanced vectoring exhaust nozzle, including actuation and engine light-off testing, into the engine that will power the venture-backed compa

Pictured is a U.S. Air Force photo of an MQ-9A sensor operator with the 11th Attack Squadron inside a ground control station at Creech AFB, Nev. on Nov. 7, 2024. The degree of survivability for future massed modular aircraft (MMA) is a key question for th