Air Cambodia has become a new Boeing customer, confirming an order for up to twenty 737 Max narrowbodies at the Singapore Airshow on Tuesday. The deal, which was privately agreed in December, covers ten 737-8s with options for 10 more. At list prices, the deal is worth up to $2.4 billion.

The Phnom Penh-based carrier’s fleet includes a mix of six Airbus A320s and ATR 72s, serving domestic routes and destinations in China, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. It previously agreed to buy up to 20 C909 and C919 airliners from China’s Comac group.

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has revealed an eVTOL design that could become Singapore's first domestically produced passenger aircraft. Although certification of a full-scale aircraft isn’t expected until 2035, flight testing of the sixth-scale model unveiled today is taking place in Singapore and Germany.

The NTU technology demonstrator project, unveiled on Tuesday at the Singapore Airshow, has been underway in secret for around three years, building on the Project Zero eVTOL concept first unveiled in 2013. After initial conversations in 2019, government funding was allocated to the current project in 2023. A 30-strong team is led by NTU professor James Wang, whose rotary-wing experience includes a tenure as senior v-p of marketing and v-p of research and development at AgustaWestland (now Leonardo).

The Australian government late last year approved an AUD$1.4 billion ($977 million) contract for the next step of the Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) program for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Under this deal, Boeing Australia will build six more Block 2 air vehicles, the first of which is in ground test, and develop the Block 3, which represents the initial operational capability.

Block 3 introduces several changes, including a larger wing, an internal weapons bay, a beyond-line-of-sight datalink that permits untethered operations, and system security enhancements. The air vehicle will also be able to carry weapons externally for certain scenarios. The first operational vehicles are due for delivery to the RAAF in 2028, at which point it is forecast to become—by some considerable margin—the first service in the world to introduce this game-changing operational concept.

By 2035, Lockheed Martin projects that more than 300 of its F-35 stealthy multirole fighters will be based in the Asia-Pacific region, with U.S.-operated aircraft flying from bases there, further swelling the numbers. Singapore is set to be the next nation to join the ranks of regional operators later this year as part of this significant force build-up.

The first four aircraft for the Republic of Singapore Air Force are due to be handed over by the end of 2026, according to a Mindef statement associated with a visit to see Singapore’s first aircraft on the F-35 production line by Minister for Defence Chan Chun Sing and Chief of Air Force Major-General Kelvin Fan.

CFM International will establish an airport testbed for its Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines (RISE) technology in Singapore. On Monday, the engine manufacturer signed a memorandum of understanding for the initiative with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and Airbus.

Under the agreement, operational trials of the RISE open-fan engine demonstrators will be conducted at either Changi or Seletar airports “to test and validate the readiness framework and assess operational feasibility” of the technology. It was signed during the third Changi Aviation Summit on the eve of the 2026 Singapore Airshow.

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