Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Bristow Group has joined a growing list of offshore helicopters operators to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a bid to restructure its operation.

Virgin Galactic is to transfer all remaining SpaceShipTwo powered flight tests to Spaceport, New Mexico, before the start of commercial spaceflight operations.

Boeing handed over the first AH-64E ordered by the Indian Air Force to Air Marshal A.S. Butola on May 10 in a ceremony at the production site in Mesa, Arizona.

RAYTHEON has $15.3m U.S. Navy contract for design agent and engineering services efforts to support Cooperative Engagement Capability.

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate former Boeing executive Pat Shanahan as U.S. defense secretary.

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UNITED LAUNCH SERVICES has $149.4m U.S. Air Force contract for Delta IV heavy launch services.

Air forces operating the F-35 are beginning to exercise together with the fifth-generation fighter.

An Embraer KC-390 was spotted in Arizona on May 9 by online flight tracking services as it performed low-altitude extraction tests.

A contract signing by July would break a string of protracted negotiations between Lockheed and the Joint Program Office over each annual production lot.

Air forces operating the F-35 are beginning to exercise together with the fifth-generation fighter.

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Collins Aerospace has announced that Steve Timm has taken over as president of its avionics business unit, five months after the company merged with UTAS.

The U.S. Air Force announced plans on May 9 to reactivate the 65th Aggressor Squadron with Lockheed Martin F-35As.

Startup Airspace Experience Technologies (ASX) has launched a crowdfunding campaign toward building a full-scale demo for its Mobi-One tiltwing eVTOL air taxi.

BAE SYSTEMS has $10.9m U.S. Navy contract for upgrade of Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) guidance section.

BlueBird Aero Systems has a contract from an undisclosed navy to supply its WanderB VTOL unmanned aircraft system (UAS) for deployment on patrol vessels.

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Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled a full-scale mockup of a lunar lander capable of soft-landing up to 6.5 metric tons on the surface of the Moon.

The U.S. State Department has OK'd an export package to Qatar that includes 24 more AH-64E attack helicopters and 2,500 AGM-114R Hellfire missiles.

Two of Britain’s new E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning radar aircraft will be converted from secondhand Boeing 737-700s, a ministerial letter has revealed.

As a member of the F-35 global partnership, Canada has agreed to terms that rule out offsets. But the Future Fighter Capability in Canada requires all bidders to submit proposals that comply with a policy which call for a 100% spending match on the value of the fighter contract.

The U.S. military has revealed a second major program in as many months aimed at experimenting with artificial intelligence in a fighter aircraft.

Airbus’s Vahana eVTOL demo has completed its first full transitions between vertical and forward flight, tilting its tandem wings fully down and cruising at 90 kt.

An ex-U.S. Navy acquisition executive argues the bill to refuel the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman is not a large one in fiscal 2020, but the DOD will have to rework its fiscal 2021 draft request.