Wizz Air signed a MoU with Cepsa for the supply of sustainable aviation fuel from 2025. The MoU gives Wizz Air the opportunity to purchase SAF from Cepsa to supply the airline’s route network across Spain. Cepsa’s SAF will be produced from organic waste, such as used cooking oils or agricultural waste, among others. These biofuels promote the circular...
Teruel Airport adds a new hangar to its facilities and it does so with a unique hangar in Spain with these characteristics. It will be possible to carry out maintenance work on two A380s or six A321s. The investment for this facility has been 23 million and the tender for the concession of use is already underway. The works began in August 2020 for the movement of earth, fencing and foundatio...
The Spanish Air Force has now decided to buy another 16 PC-21s. The contract signed with the Dirección General de Armamento y Material (DGAM) makes Spain the largest PC-21 operator in Europe. Spain is convinced by the PC-21: since summer 2022, its future military pilots have trained with the world’s most advanced training system by Pilatus. After a very professional negotiation p...
Bell signed purchase agreement for a Bell 429 to be operated by World Aviation, the Independent Representative for Bell in Spain. The aircraft will be delivered to a private owner and operated for charter and corporate VIP transport in the Costa del Sol and other regions in the country. The Bell 429 has proved popular for the corporate VIP mission in many of the most prestigious loc...
Renowned CANAVIA Spanish Aviation Academy based in the Canary Islands, will incorporate three new Tecnam aircraft: one Multi-engine P2006T MarkII and two P2008JC MarkII’s into their fleet. The school already operates two multi-engine P2006T MarkII’s and three single-engine Tecnam P2008JC MkII”s operating 365 days a year. With this new acquisition the academy w...
Starting in 2022, Quality Fly has become carbon-neutral. How? By reducing carbon footprint and offsetting the remaining emissions through investments in clean energy projects. This is how they became the first flight school in Spain and one of the very few in Europe that offer carbon-neutral integrated and modular commercial pilot programmes. This milestone moves t...
Airbus has delivered the first two H135s to the Spanish Guardia Civil and National Police under the 36-unit contract signed with the General Directorate for Armaments and Materiel at the end of 2021 to supply the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Interior. The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and Bruno Even, CEO of Airbus Helicopters, along with Fernand...
EH216 AAV has performed successful flight demonstrations in Spain under the European Union Air Mobility Urban - Large Experimental Demonstration project, as one of Europe’s largest Urban Air Mobility demonstration projects. The EH216 flight demonstrations were recently conducted at the Rozas Airborne Research Center of Spain’s National Institute of Aerospa...
Airbus has successfully tested a removable firefighting demonstrator kit on the A400M new generation airlifter during a flight test campaign in Spain. The test campaign took place in daylight conditions with a minimum operating height of 150ft, flight speeds as low as 125 knots and drops involving up to 20 tonnes of water from the current tank in less than 10 seconds. The main objec...
EHang entered into a collaboration agreement with ENAIRE to promote research, development and innovation in the fields of U-Space and Urban Air Mobility in Spain and Europe. The parties seek to collaborate in national and international innovation initiatives on U-Space and the development of AAV operations for the execution of activities of common interest in U-Space and Urban...
World-first agreement between a company and a commercial airport, the regional Government of Catalonia has joined with Inmarsat Velaris Partner Network to transform Lleida-Alguaire Airport into a European centre of excellence for advancing Air Traffic Management and Uncrewed Traffic Management innovation. Situated approximately 5 miles (8 kilometres) from the city of Lleida, Ll...
Spanish academy FlyBy ordered two Tecnam P-Mentors to expand their fleet capabilities to be added at their current fleet of P2002JF and P2006T twin. The choice of FlyBy is joining and confirming the new philosophy in Flight Training offered by Tecnam. This fleet expansion will improve the quality of training while limiting its cost for students and better preserving the natural environment...
