Bombardier has announced the entry-into-service of its long-range, large-cabin Global 5500, with a recent delivery to a customer that it did not identify.
A new item has been added to the already lengthy list of challenges facing the UK’s business aviation sector as it struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic: effective communication with government.
Now owned by Chinese automaker Geely, flying-car developer Terrafugia has unveiled the design of the full-scale prototype for its TF-2A all-electric urban air taxi.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a citation and penalty to Textron Aviation as part of its investigation into a December explosion at its Wichita Plant 3 facility that injured 15 employees.
The European Business Aviation Association and General Aviation Manufacturers Association have joined with 11 other air transport bodies to urge European Union leaders to link COVID-19 recovery funding initiatives to ongoing carbon-reduction programs.
Machinists union members at Textron Aviation voted June 23 to reject the company’s request to open labor contract negotiations early as it adjusts to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With more than three months to go before opening day, the National Business Aviation Association plans to provide an update in early July on the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, the world’s largest business aviation show.
Electric flight startup ZeroAvia has completed its first electrically driven flight in the UK as it gears up its operations to demonstrate a 250-300-nm flight with its hydrogen fuel cell technology.
About 250 Textron Aviation employees received 60-day layoff notices June 23, including 70 in Wichita, as the company adjusts to the economic uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company told employees.
Tupolev has released specifications and a seven-year schedule for completing design of a 30-seat, supersonic business jet, which includes flying a testbed aircraft possibly derived from the Tu-160 bomber.
Be The Match, a not-for-profit operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, has a particular shortage of volunteer pilots to fly donors or bone marrow and their couriers in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions of the U.S. and between Canada and the U.S.
As Textron Aviation plans to restructure and reduce its workforce, company officials have asked the Machinists union to open contract negotiations early.
Network-based identity and position reporting by drones will not be costly for their operators, says one of the companies assisting the FAA in developing “Remote ID” service requirements.
Flying privately eliminates as many as 680 “person-to-person touch points” rather than traveling by commercial airline—potentially reducing the chances of contracting the coronavirus leading to COVID-19, according to Colibri Aircraft, a London-based private jet broker.
Startup SkyDrive has confirmed plans for a public flight demonstration this summer of Japan’s first manned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
