Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Sunday it is necessary to exhume the bodies of victims of the 2010 plane crash near the Russian city of Smolensk. In October, Poland's prosecutors announced exhumation of the bodies of victims, who had not been exhumed before. The procedure is scheduled for November 14 while relatives of the victims are opposing exhumation. He als...
ALSIM is very pleased to announce the sale of an ALX simulator to Smart Aviation, ATO based in Poznan, Poland. The ALX, FNPT II MCC simulator, is a state of the art training tool that covers up to 4 different aircraft types and 10 different flight models in one device. This scalable device offers a High Definition Visual System (HDVS) ensuring real immersion with a terrific degree of realism. S...
Airbus Helicopters had a commanding presence at MSPO International Defence Industry Exhibition, which took place in Kielce, Poland from 6-9 September 2016. Highlighting its wide range of products, the company will present the H225M Caracal, which landed in Kielce following a ferry flight from France, together with the Tiger HAD and H145M on its static disp...
Heli-One, a leading provider of helicopter maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services, has expanded its Poland facility by 6,000+ m² to accommodate helicopter storage for up to 40 “heavy” aircraft. The facility provides for a controlled and monitored environment tailored for aircraft storage, allowing helicopter owners and operators to be assured that their aircraft assets w...
LOT Polish Airlines is planning an overhaul of its narrowbody fleet with the addition of some more aircraft to better compete with low-cost rivals in the fast-growing eastern European market and add routes out of its Warsaw hub, the carrier's new chief executive said on Saturday. "We are interested in increasing the significance and scope of our hub in Warsaw," Rafal Milczarski, w...
Radom (Poland), Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) and Airbus Helicopters are hosting a two-day workshop in Radom on the 28 – 29 April to identify potential areas of cooperation around the Tiger HAD project, in the frame of the Kruk attack helicopter project. The event included the global network of Tiger HAD suppliers who took part in the discussions with a number of Polish companies. T...
Polish police say they have detained 21 people in connection with a false bomb threat that caused 800 people to be evacuated and four flights to be diverted from an airport near the capital. The bomb threat occurred late Sunday and affected Warsaw’s Modlin Airport, which is north of the capital and serves budget airlines. Dawid Marciniak, a police official, said Monday that police trac...
Polish engineering company Metal Master has installed theWilliams International FJ33-5A turbofan in the first conforming Flaris LAR-1 personal jet, and is preparing the five-seat single for engine ground runs this quarter. Engineers from Williams’ US facilities are slated to arrive at Metal Master's base in Podgórzyn, western Poland, by the middle of March. They will assis...
Heli-One’s helicopter MRO facility in Rzeszow, Poland, is now approved to provide base maintenance on Airbus Helicopters H225s operating in Europe, the U.S., Canada and the Cayman Islands. The approval adds to the facility's existing AS332 and the H135 capability. Rzeszow is the third Heli-One facility to offer H225 base maintenance, joinin...
Poland has decided to scrap the $3 billion deal for 50 Airbus utility helicopters and will buy only a few aircraft from the European company, the daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Thursday citing defense sources. The move, coming months before a NATO summit in Warsaw where Poland is expected to seek more allied presence on its territory, could strain Warsaw's ties with France and delay...
Split and Zadar are two more Croatian cities to which passengers will be able to fly as early as on 30 April by LOT. The Polish carrier will offer them the fastest and most comfortable journey to the most popular holiday resorts in Croatia, both direct from Warsaw, and with one convenient transfer from other cities in Poland and Europe. This is the first offer of this type on the market! T...
Poland’s new government is moving to cancel two key defense tenders agreed by the previous administration. The Law and Justice party (PiS) was highly critical of the selection of the Raytheon Patriot for Poland’s Wisla requirement for an air and missile defense system and also of Airbus Helicopters for a helicopter replacement program, announced in April by the then Civic Platform a...
