March 2025

As promised, the Soviet Updates are back with a bumper-issue, but at the same time the PH register shines in absence, as the editor was busy moving house. That section will also feature with a double helping next month.

The Showreports this month have very interesting reports on the recently held shows in Yelahanka, India, where Aero India 2025 took place, and two in Thailand. At Yelahanka it was the first time that both the Sukhoi Su-57 and Lockheed Martin F-35 shared the same piece of tarmac.

We are in the finalising stages of our publications SWAF and SMS Europe. The latter is as good as ready and needs some tweaking, before being sent off to the printers. Soon the SWAF-team will convene to put the dots on the i’s and crosses through the t’s and when that is all done it too will be sent to the printers. Look out on our social media (which now includes Bluesky) for more information in the coming months.

The April 2025 edition will be available from Sunday 6 April and the deadline for photos is Tuesday 1 April (no April fools joke!).

As we publish our monthly sections this time, our database shows 63 MD-11s remaining in service. All are MD-11F versions and being flown by FedEx, UPS and Western Global. Of these three operators, the latter is perhaps the most interesting one and has ten of these mighty three-holers in its fleet. Anton Homma enjoyed the arrival of N783SN at Miami International (FL) on 25 January 2025.