The UK’s FlyZero research project has revealed its concept for a 75-seat regional airliner powered by liquid hydrogen as it finalizes its study on how to prepare the country’s aerospace industry to participate in the development of future zero-emissions commercial aircraft.

Boom Supersonic has announced plans to develop a production, test and delivery facility for its Overture supersonic airliner at Piedmont Triad International Airport near Greensboro, North Carolina.

Collins Aerospace has created a new business unit, Advanced Structures, that combines the Raytheon Technologies division’s heritage aerostructures and mechanical systems groups under the growing sustainability business mandate.

Chairman Helmuth Ludwig explained the personnel changes stem from the board’s desire to “to unlock the potential of Circor and accelerate progress on our strategic priorities.”

Seasoned dealmakers say late 2022-early 2023 could see a long-awaited—and potentially dramatic—revival in commercial aero M&A among small and midsized enterprises.

Embraer has agreed to sell its Evora site in Portugal to Spanish aerostructures specialist Aernnova for $172 million in the hope that the facility can attract business from other aircraft manufacturers while reducing Embraer’s exposure in aircraft components.

Airbus is keeping a close eye on the COVID-19 situation in China’s Tianjin, home to the airframer’s only final assembly line in Asia, after authorities ordered a partial lockdown of the city in response to the detection of 40 cases linked to the omicron variant.

Share prices of publicly traded A&D companies in 2021 were up from catastrophic 2020, but still down from pre-pandemic heights.