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Cirium is pleased to announce the introduction of the first commercial Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft types into our Commercial Fleets Data.

A BWB aircraft integrates the fuselage and wings into a single, continuous lifting surface, replacing the traditional configuration of a discrete fuselage with attached wings.

Initial aircraft types to be included, based on known commercial commitments:

• JetZero Z4
• Natilus Horizon Evo

To support market segmentation, Cirium has also introduced a new market class and grouping within the Commercial Market sector.

Market Sector – Commercial

Market Class – Blended Wing Body Jets

Market Grouping – Blended Wing Body Jets

Cirium will continue to monitor this emerging area of the market, expanding coverage to include additional commitments and aircraft types as announcements are made.

Data will be released on Wednesday 29^th April.

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.

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.

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.

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 19^th January 2026.

Cirium has decided to reclassify the Embraer E195 E2 in its fleets and values database from the existing “Regional Jet” aircraft class to “Narrowbody”.

There are strong arguments to classify the aircraft in either category, but on balance, we recognise that those in favour of Narrowbody (payload-range performance, typical installed seats, markets within which it typically competes) now outweigh those which initially caused us to classify it as a regional jet (four-abreast cabin, predominantly regional airline operator base, limited cargo volume).

This change applies only to the E195 E2 and will be effective from Friday 13 June. If you have created Saved Searches with the E195 E2 included or involving those market groupings, please check them and update if necessary.

Cirium is making a series of updates to our aircraft taxonomy to keep our data up to date with market feedback and also for consistency across our datasets.  

If you have created Saved Searches with any of the types listed below, please check them and update if necessary.

These changes will be made effective from Wednesday 20^th November.

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