Paris Air Show 2025

 

Full coverage from our expert editors at Paris Airshow 2025.

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By Karen Walker
A shock airliner crash subdued but did not nix the Paris Air Show.
Airlines & Lessors

By Daniel Williams
This week's Flight Friday looks at utilization in Europe of Embraer’s E170/E175s, E190/E195s and its E2s, given the Brazilian OEM's successful Paris Air Show.
Small Narrowbody Jets

By Kevin Michaels
A Supplier New Deal built on fairness, collaboration and mutual investment could reset OEM-supplier relationships and enable higher production rates.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Adrian Schofield
AirAsia may be preparing to announce a significant Airbus aircraft order soon, as it continues negotiations with manufacturers.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Given how important incumbency is in the industry, Embraer's current E1 operator base is the most promising potential market for its E2 aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
With engine upgrades, stealth drone integration and enhanced weapons, France’s Dassault Rafale is evolving for the future—and eyeing new export wins.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
With higher output, more orders and new upgrade plans, Eurofighter’s CEO says the program has reached an inflection point.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
Can the French-German-Spanish fighter development program be saved? The next few months could be decisive.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
The emergent advanced air mobility industry is not short of startups working on ambitious technology programs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Lee Ann Shay, Thierry Dubois, James Pozzi
Listen in as editors discuss the big MRO news from this year’s Paris Air Show, as well as what changed from the last time industry met in Le Bourget in 2023.
MRO Podcast

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo and Romania’s Avioane Craiova have teamed up to cooperate on proposals to sell the M-345 and M-346 jet trainers and training system to the country.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Ben Goldstein
EHang has announced the sale of 41 autonomous EH216-S multicopter eVTOLs to a special economic zone in Changchun, Jilin Province, China.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Dassault Aviation is exhibiting a small-scale model of the Vortex, a reusable spaceplane it is proposing for dual-use civil-military applications.
Space Exploration

By Ben Goldstein
Archer has a new partnership with private aviation services company JetEx to integrate the Midnight eVTOL into the latter’s network of several dozen FBOs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Hamburg-based executive charter operator Luminair ordered three Falcon 9X trijets from Dassault Aviation here at the Paris Air Show this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Eutelsat, whose OneWeb system competes with SpaceX’s Starlink, is raising $1.6 billion with backing from the French government.
Satellites

By Guy Norris
Boeing says it has issued a request for information (RFI) as part of on-going moves to assess the latest state-of-the-art engine concepts.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The Hydrogen Aircraft Propulsion and Storage System program aims to fly a liquid-hydrogen, fuel-cell powertrain on a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has achieved its speed target with its Racer compound rotorcraft with the experimental aircraft flying at 240 kt. in April.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By James Pozzi
Middle Eastern cargo airline Texel Air has signed a memorandum of understanding to expand its MRO facilities at its Bahrain home base.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
Airbus is exploring the concept of becoming the owner and operator of some A400M military airlifters to secure contracts with smaller air forces.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The French government has launched several military space efforts, spanning space situational awareness initiatives to nanonsatellites.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Jens Flottau
Airbus will have completed “very advanced studies” on a stretched version of the A220 by the end of the year as it works out if it needs a more powerful engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works has agreed to explore opportunities with Electra.aero for the startup’s in-development EL9 ultra-short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion