Showers may have interrupted play, but the Light Aircraft Association's great fly-in at the historic Northamptonshire venue was an event to be savoured | Words & photos: Philip Whiteman

On 8 August Gulfstream Aerospace delivered to a US customer its first Gulfstream G600, five weeks after the FAA awarded the all-new aircraft its type and production certificates

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Lelystad Airport, which is the busiest GA airport in The Netherlands and satellite to Amsterdam-Schiphol, has recently undergone a major transformation to become an international airport with inclusive tour holiday passenger flights across Europe, and is expected to handle to five million passengers and 45,000 movements a year

Local radio station Spire FM reports that Old Sarum airfield is to close, with a shock letter being sent to aircraft owners requiring them to remove their aircraft and 'vacate the premises' by 31 October

On 29 August, the last SESAR JU Gulf of Finland (GOF) U-space demonstration took place in Helsinki, Finland, showing how integrated Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) systems enable urban air mobility

AirVenture, the US Experimental Aircraft Association's great annual show was a showcase for home- and factory-built aircraft, new and old − and one or two notable debuts | Words & photos: Nigel Hitchman

Shannon Airport has celebrated its eightieth anniversary by commemorating the arrival on 11 July 1939 of its first passenger flight, a Belgian Sabena Savoia-Marchetti SM.73 tri-motor airliner which landed on the newly-opened and then-named Rineanna Airfield

The Mk26Bs are 90% scale Spitfires that The Spitfire Club are building and the open day will give you the opportunity to find out more about the project

At July's EAA AirVenture at Oshkosh Extra Aircraft unveiled the two-seat Extra NG, which promises 'a step up in performance and cradles the pilot in a luxurious seat in front of avionics not common in older aerobats'