Cirium has released Ownership Types in Fleets Analyzer, giving aviation professionals deeper visibility into how aircrafts are financed and operated across the global fleet.
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Introducing Estimated Lease Expiries
Responding to user feedback, Fleets Analyzer will now contain Estimated Lease Expiries, a new enhancement designed to improve visibility into aircraft lease tenures where researched lease end dates are unavailable.
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Middle East Fleets Update – 23rd March
Further to our post on 12th March regarding the monitoring of Middle East based fleets amid the ongoing conflict, Cirium has reviewed and updated the status of non‑military fleets in two additional countries—Syria and Qatar—to Storage.
This adds to the previous countries announced – Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain.
It should be noted that for certain operators, parts of their fleets are currently operating outside of their home country. In these cases, the relevant aircraft have been retained as In Service.
Additionally, a number of aircraft have been ferried from their home countries to storage locations outside the affected areas, and this is reflected in the fleets data.
As previously stated, the Fleets Research team continues to closely monitor flight activity across the region and will update fleet statuses as the situation evolves. Any wider updates will be posted here to keep customers posted of our latest policy for particular countries.
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Middle East Fleets Update – 12th March
Further to our post on 4 March regarding the monitoring of Middle East based fleets amid the ongoing conflict, Cirium has reviewed and updated the status of non‑military fleets in two additional countries—Kuwait and Bahrain—to Storage.
It should be noted that for certain operators, such as Gulf Air, parts of their fleets are currently operating outside of Bahrain. In these cases, the relevant aircraft have been retained as In Service.
As previously stated, the Fleets Research team continues to closely monitor flight activity across the region and will update fleet statuses as the situation evolves. Any wider updates will be posted here to keep customers posted of our latest policy for particular countries.
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AH-64 / CH-47 Histories Rework Complete
Cirium is pleased to confirm that the recently announced rework of aircraft histories for the Boeing AH-64 Apache and Boeing CH-47 Chinook to better represent remanufactured airframes is now complete.
As mentioned previously, the histories rework has meant some aircraft changing internal ID (FG ID) but the data rework is now finished so any data analysis will now incorporate those changes.
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Middle Eastern Fleets Status
Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, Cirium has updated the status of non‑military aircraft fleets in Iran and Iraq to Storage. In other Gulf countries, commercial flight activity remains limited; however, Cirium will, for the time being, retain these fleets as In Service.
Using Cirium’s internal flight‑tracking capabilities, the Fleets Research team continues to closely monitor flight activity across the region and will update fleet statuses as the situation evolves.
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Country change – North Macedonia
Cirium has recently made a change in our geographical data, updating the European country Macedonia to North Macedonia.
If you have created Saved Searches involving the country then please check them and update if necessary.
The change will be effective from Friday 13th February 2026.
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Britten Norman BN2 Islander Taxonomy Update
Based on market feedback, Cirium is making a minor update to the Britten Norman BN2 Islander and BN2A Trislander types.
The following Aircraft Type descriptions will be amended as follows:
BN-2 will change to BN2 Islander
BN-2A Trislander will change to BN2A Trislander
All relevant master series, type series and sub series will also change from BN-2 to BN2.
If you have created Saved Searches with the BN2 Islander/BN2A Trislander included or involving those market groupings, please check them and update if necessary.
Changes will be effective in the data from Monday 19th January 2026.
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Helicopter Histories Update
In the next two months, our data team will implement substantial updates to the records of two key military helicopter models: the Boeing AH-64 Apache and the Boeing CH-47 Chinook.
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Aircraft Taxonomy Update
To accommodate the recent announcement of the new Gulfstream G300, Cirium has re-named the existing Gulfstream G300 type to be G300 (Classic) to help customers differentiate the two types.
Cirium data shows there are currently 13 examples of the G300 (Classic) in the current fleet for the type, all operated in the US and the Middle East.
Changes will be effective in the data from Tuesday 14th October 2025.
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