Kenya's Safe Air eyes scheduled pax ops, cargo fleet growth

Parked aircraft take fire as fighting engulfs Khartoum

At least 25 people are dead while at least two large commercial aircraft sustained heavy damage after Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese armed forces (SAF) clashed in Khartoum on Saturday, April 15. During the fighting, two people were killed at Khartoum International Airport, while RPG fire and gunfire saw a Saudia (SV, Jeddah) A330-300 and SkyUp Airlines (PQ, Kyiv Boryspil) B737-800 go up in flames.

The fighting, which has spread outside Khartoum in recent days, is part of an ongoing civil war in Sudan and continuing hostilities between the paramilitary RSF and the SAF. The RSF are resisting a power sharing deal which will involve their integration into the SAF as part of a proposed transition to civilian rule. On Saturday morning, as hostilities broke out in Sudan's capital, on the ground reports say the RSF took control of Khartoum Airport as jeeps laden with RSF armed fighters swarmed onto the aprons.

Footage is circulating on social media showing black smoke billowing from both aircraft which were parked at remote...

Kenya's Safe Air may grow B727 freighter fleet

Safe Air (K3, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) has neither confirmed nor denied social media chatter that an ex-AeroStan B727-200(F) that arrived at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta last week, will be joining its fleet.

A spokesman for the Kenyan carrier informed ch-aviation the aircraft - EX-27011 (msn 21580) - was "not yet" but "maybe" joining Safe Air. "It's neither here nor there," he said. "Will confirm once done."

According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, the 44.26-year-old freighter was operated by the Kyrgyzstani carrier between November 2020 and October 2022, and had since been stored at Bishkek. It is owned by UAE-based Air Speed Charter.

Safe Air already operates two B727-200 (F)s and one B727-200, ch-aviation fleets advanced data reveals.

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