Germany

By David Casey
All the data relating to the region’s top airlines, airports, routes and markets during the second quarter of the year.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
Czech startup Zuri has completed a large-scale ground testbed for its planned five-seat hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Space Command has extended invitations to France, Germany and New Zealand to join a high-level collaborative group on military space operations.
Space Symposium

By Tony Osborne
Germany is establishing a fourth armed service amidst a major restructuring of the country’s national defense.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Lawmakers in Germany have approved the purchase of four more Patriot ground-based air defense systems for the country.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s top leaders on March 19 pressed international partners to surge more aid to Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Seventy percent of European missile manufacturer MBDA’s exports in 2023 were for ground-based air defenses, the company’s CEO has revealed.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has unveiled the completed prototype of its CityAirbus NextGen electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing advanced air mobility aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Volocopter has received an extension to its Production Organization Approval from Germany’s aviation authority.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Lilium says that production of key structures for its second production-conforming Lilium Jet is now underway.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Norway has joined the growing number of C-130J Hercules operators to begin upgrading its aircraft to the Block 8.1 standard.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau, David Casey
German airline association BDL expects domestic traffic from secondary airports in the country to further decline in the upcoming summer season.
Airports & Networks

By Tony Osborne
An Airbus-Dassault Aviation dispute is threatening the timeline for the development of the four-nation Eurodrone, a German defense ministry report has revealed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
At the heart of the system will be the Diehl IRIS-T surface-launched medium-range missile fire units,.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
German lawmakers have approved €1.23 billion ($1.34 billion) in funding for the development of a new mobile short-range air defense system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s navy is to perform a series of flight trials this year with the General Atomics MQ-9 SeaGuardian uncrewed aircraft system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
German aerospace industry sources says Berlin's proposed €2 billion cut would sound the death knell for development of SAF before it begins in the country.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
Lilium has announced a partnership with airport operator Fraport aimed at defining requirements for a network of vertiports across Germany and nearby countries.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Key figures in Germany’s government have signaled that Berlin will no longer oppose a British sale of Eurofighters to Saudi Arabia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Jens Flottau
The airport’s flight cap reprieve provides summer season clarity, but European aviation increasingly will be in the environmental spotlight this year.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
German lawmakers have approved €3 billion ($3.3 billion) in spending for the procurement of some 1,900 missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jens Flottau
The German federal government has given up on plans to raise a domestic fuel tax only days after it first announced the proposal.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
FAI, based in Nuremberg, Germany, announced Dec. 19 that it has renewed the partnership it struck with McLaren Racing in 2020.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. arm of Germany’s Quantum Systems has signed a contract with the New Zealand Ministry of Defense to supply its Vector uncrewed aircraft system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
BVLOS approval is critical to efficiently expanding the drone delivery network.
Advanced Air Mobility