Spanish air navigation service provider Enaire plans urban air mobility demonstrations in Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela in 2022 under two projects funded by Europe’s Horizon 2020 research program through the SESAR air traffic management modernization effort.
Embraer and Porsche have collaborated to create a limited-edition pairing of the Phenom 300E light business jet and 911 Turbo S sports car. Only 10 pairs will be produced for delivery beginning in 2021.
As it prepares to become a pure-play business aviation company, Bombardier has launched a cost-cutting effort in a bid to be profitable on deliveries of 100-120 aircraft a year, down from the 150-plus expected before COVID-19.
Triumph Group will at least announce the sale of the rest of its aerostructure business before April 2021, if not close on the deal, the supplier’s chief executive asserted Nov. 5.
Manufacturers are expected to deliver 6,376 new civil and commercial helicopters worth $30.4 billion at retail prices from 2021 through 2030, while the worldwide fleet is projected to expand at a 1.4% compound annual growth rate, according to Aviation Week Network’s new 2021 Helicopter Fleet & MRO Forecast.
Duncan Aviation has partnered with Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. to develop a full-equipment Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Gogo Business Aviation Avance L5 Wi-Fi system for the Gulfstream G200 and Galaxy aircraft.
FlyingGroup, a business jet company, has completed new headquarters at Antwerp International Airport in Belgium, which includes 100% energy neutral facilities.
The FAA has selected the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to participate in Beyond, a new drone program that replaces the Integration Pilot Program (IPP), which ended after a three-year run.
The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Transportation Committee narrowly won his bid for re-election, ensuring the key committee’s policy agenda remains on track for at least two more years.
The FAA is calling attention to risks that disinfection can have on aircraft interiors, urging operators and maintainers to heed manufacturers’ guidance and take extra steps to protect sensitive equipment, wiring, and other high-risk components.
Spirit AeroSystems, freshly infused with former Bombardier aerostructure assets that serve Airbus narrowbodies and the aftermarket, will look to squeeze cost out of its newly inherited and enlarged supply chain, executives said Nov. 3 while releasing third-quarter results.
Global business aviation activity was down 15% through most of October compared to a year ago, spurred by leisure demand in the charter market, according to WingX Advance data.
Designers of urban air taxis are quick to correct anyone who calls their vehicles “flying cars,” as most are intended to fly over cities and not drive on the streets.
British start-up rotary-wing OEM Hill Helicopters has unveiled a turbine engine developed in-house that will go on to power the company’s HX50 light helicopter.
Carter Aviation Technologies’ PAV4 gyroplane prototype has returned to flight as a technology demonstrator for Jaunt Air Mobility’s Journey electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
