Thai Top Gun! Queen Suthida’s solo fighter jet mission makes aviation history

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1. Fri, 9 October 2026

   7 reports
   • Le Figaro (France)07:49
     Les images en immersion de la reine de Thaïlande pilotant seule un avion de chasse pour la première fois

     VIDÉO - Une vidéo diffusée par le Bureau royal de Thaïlande jeudi 8 octobre montre le premier vol en solitaire de la reine Suthida à bord d’un chasseur.

   • bne IntelliNews11:46first to report
     Thai Top Gun! Queen Suthida’s solo fighter jet mission makes aviation history

     Credit: Thai Bureau of the Royal Household Reports from Thailand say the royal, 48, took the controls of a single-seat JAS-39C Gripen at Wing 7 in Surat Thani province on October 8, in the wake of a period of intensive theoretical and practical training with the Royal Thai Air Force.

   • Der Spiegel (Germany)14:12
     Thailand: Königin Suthida absolviert ersten Soloflug mit Kampfjet

     Jahrelang hat Königin Suthida für diesen Moment trainiert: Als erste Frau Thailands flog sie einen Gripen-Kampfjet – allein. Von ihrem Ehemann gab es dafür Blumen und ein Abzeichen.

   • taipeitimes.com16:00
     Thai Queen Suthida goes solo in fighter jet for the first time

     Thailand’s Queen Suthida has flown a Gripen fighter jet solo for the first time, the royal household revealed yesterday, watched by her husband, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, himself a keen pilot.The 48-year-old queen took off in a single-seat JAS 39C from a military air base in southern Surat Thani Pro

   • ABC (Spain)16:47
     Suthida de Tailandia se convierte en la primera consorte en pilotar un avión de combate

     Las cosas están cambiando en las monarquías. No solo se acerca toda una generación de mujeres reinas —con solo un par de excepciones todas las monarquías europeas tienen herederas—, sino que aquellas consortes que se encuentran ya en el trono están empezando a tener formación militar. La Reina Máxima de los Países Bajos fue quien rompió con la norma no escrita y se metió como reservista en el Ejército. Ahora Suthida de Tailandia ha dado un paso más.Si bien la Princesa Leonor o Salma de Jordania...

   • BBC News World19:48
     Thai Queen makes first solo flight in fighter jet

     Thailand’s Queen Suthida made her first solo flight in a fighter jet, according to the Thai Royal Household.

   • gdnonline.com20:30
     World News: Thailand's queen pilots a fighter jet on her first solo flight
2. Sat, 10 October 2026

   1 report
   • asiaone.com02:30
     Thai Queen Suthida makes first solo flight in fighter jet

     Thailand's Queen Suthida took her first solo flight in a Gripen fighter jet in Surat Thani on Thursday (Oct 8).Footage shared by the PR Thai Government on Facebook shows the 48-year-old piloting a single-seat JAS 39C from a military air base in Thailand's southern Surat Thani province on Thursday. After the flight, Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn presented Suthida with a...