Europe’s aviation safety agency on June 30 issued a proposed regulatory framework for operations of new vertical takeoff and landing-capable aircraft over cities.
Guardian Agriculture, a U.S. startup developing an autonomous crop protection aircraft, has secured a multimillion-dollar partnership with Wilbur-Ellis, a manufacturer of agriculture products and chemicals.
Australian regional airline Skytrans has partnered with local startup Stralis Aircraft to convert a 19-seat Beech 1900D turboprop to hydrogen-electric propulsion for flight trials in 2025.
China’s Duofo Group has acquired Italian ultralight helicopter manufacturer Fama Helicopters with the goal of expanding into uncrewed aircraft and electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.
Korea Aerospace Industries is to build a subscale model of a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi for flight testing by 2024 as a precursor of a full-size vehicle that would enable the company to participate in the Seoul government’s push to commercialize urban air mobility beginning in 2025.
Saab plans to deliver two of the Bombardier Global 6000-derived surveillance systems in 2027 to to the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration, the company says.
After disruptions and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Bye Aerospace and the FAA are finalizing certification plans for the eFlyer 2 electric trainer, keeping the company on course to have the first electric aircraft certified under Part 23 Amendment 64 airworthiness regulations.
Bombardier has quadrupled the footprints of its Singapore Service Center, making it the largest OEM business aviation maintenance facility in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fuel refiner Neste and Victor, an on-demand private-jet charter company, have partnered to make Neste MY sustainable aviation fuel available for all Fly Victor bookings.
Air Plains Services has designed an advanced instrument panel kit—the 172XPa—for Cessna 172 owners who either are planning to install or have completed installations of the company’s 180-hp engine upgrades.
The pros and cons of the different fuel-cell types should be considered carefully for hydrogen-powered aircraft, as well as liquid-hydrogen production sites, says Bauhaus Luftfahrt, a Munich-based aviation science and technology think-tank.
Complete Aircraft Group (CAG), an aviation services business, has finalized the acquisition of Aerocare Aviation Services (AAS), a Part 145 maintenance, repair and overhaul provider.
Gulfstream Aerospace has completed the first flight of its G800 ultralong-range business jet, in a move that officially launches the flight-test program.
The FAA is kicking off consideration of a Republic Airways request to provide an exemption for graduates of a tailored program in its training academy that would allow them to qualify as airline pilots with 750 hr. of flight experience.
Third parties will find it harder to identify and track Elon Musk’s G650 and other private jets under a revised privacy program the FAA manages now but plans to outsource to a vendor.
Paving the way for certification of its 100-kW electric propulsion system for general-aviation aircraft, Swiss startup H55 has received its design organization approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
Members of the IAMAW Lodge 712 at Bombardier ratified a new five-year bargaining agreement following nine months of negotiations and the rejection of two earlier contract offers.
Executives working to facilitate the wider use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in business aviation offered a measured assessment of the progress toward that goal June 22 during the NBAA White Plains Regional Forum in New York.
Oriens Aviation has become an authorized service center for Cirrus’s SR2X family of aircraft, giving the Duluth, Minnesota -headquartered airframer its first MRO location in the south-east of the UK.
Rolls-Royce has revealed it is developing an all-new turbogenerator for use in advanced-air-mobility applications including primary propulsion for electric short-takeoff-and landing aircraft and extending the range of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
