Richard Kane is the founder of VeriJet, a Boca Raton, Florida-based charter company focused on shorter, point-to-point flights using the single-engine Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet.
Flight tests of an aircraft converted to electric propulsion from piston power have shown noise energy levels at least 100 times lower, highlighting the potential for electric aircraft to reduce airport noise pollution.
VistaJet has taken delivery of the first two of up to 12 Bombardier Global 7500 ultra-long-range business jets and identified itself as the customer behind a December order with Bombardier for 10 new Challenger 350 business jets.
Three years after first investing in Zipline, Toyota has partnered with the U.S.-based drone delivery startup to develop a national-scale medical delivery network to improve access to health care in Japan.
UPS announced on April 7 that it plans to purchase up to 150 Beta Technologies’ Alia electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to augment package deliveries in small and midsize markets.
Korea Aerospace Industries plans to enter the urban air mobility market as part of a new strategy to make the South Korean manufacturer the No. 1 aerospace company in Asia by 2030.
Agriculture is the latest market to get the electric vertical flight treatment, with crop protection startup Guardian Agriculture emerging from stealth with a $10.5 million seed funding round.
Privately owned TECT Aerospace of Wichita, which manufactures complex aerostructure components, parts and assemblies, filed to begin U.S. bankruptcy proceedings April 6.
The U.S. NTSB on April 6 reiterated its call for the FAA to require passenger-carrying charter and general aviation operators to implement safety management systems.
With more than 100 companies trying to break into the nascent urban air mobility market, it is perhaps inevitable that some of the vehicle designs look similar. But Boeing-backed Wisk sees enough similarities between one of its designs and new entrant Archer’s aircraft that it has filed a lawsuit.
Benefits of the FAA’s long-running NextGen air traffic control modernization are difficult to measure and have not kept pace with initial projections, the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found.
A coalition representing every segment of the U.S. civil aviation industry is urging the Biden administration’s recently unveiled American Jobs Plan to include performance-based measures to spur sustainable aviation fuel production.
NASA’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions has launched a crowdsourcing competition to solicit assessments from experts on the factors most likely to shape the future of air travel and how to best arrive at a favorable outcome.
The ground-based air navigation infrastructure is aging and in need of repair, industry and FAA speakers warned March 31 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Aviation Summit.
NetJets has launched a new 25-hr. Corporate Angel Network jet card, which comes with one flight hour donated by NetJets to cancer patients needing to travel to treatment centers.
Dutch investment company Panta Holdings has acquired Fokker Services and Fokker Techniek, aviation aftermarket businesses, from Fokker Technologies/GKN Aerospace.
Textron Aviation is celebrating the 1,000th delivery of its Cessna Citation 560XL series midsize business jet with the delivery of a Citation XLS+ to a customer in the Northeastern U.S.
