If you are an aviation geek like myself, you have likely seen the Amazon Original movie 7500, released in 2019. Starring Joseph Gordan-Levitt, it is a tense thriller told from the cockpit perspective, ...

Calls for a specific squawk code to be designated for gliders have emerged after a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker came within 15 metres of colliding with a glider over Eastern England. On Apr. 8, 2025, a KC ...

A Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules and a Lockheed C-130 Hercules put out emergency 7700 squawk codes as they flew south from Yorkshire towards Oxfordshire. The 7700 code is said to represent a ...

The Tutor G-BYVH aircraft transmitted the signal near Stamford in Peterborough shortly after 13.30 this afternoon. The 7700 squawk code is designed to immediately alert Air Traffic Control to an ...