Aerospace

BOEING and EMBRAER received unconditional approval for their proposed strategic partnership from Brazil. The partnership has now received
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus has reached an “agreement in principle” with France’s financial prosecutor (Parquet National Financier or PNF), the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and U.S. authorities, the company confirmed Jan. 28.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Uber is launching a three-year, “multimillion-dollar” community engagement plan to pave the way for the anticipated start of commercial urban aerial ride-sharing services in its pilot cities of Dallas, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Fort Worth-based Novaria Group, a holding company rolling up Tier 2 and 3 aerospace and defense suppliers, has changed ownership itself, with Rosewood Private Investments and Tailwind Advisors selling to major investment firm KKR.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Japan Air Lines is to conduct a drone delivery demonstration with Yabu City, in Hyogo Province, and service provider Terra Drone.
Business Aviation

By Bradley Perrett
The city-state’s air bases are increasingly vulnerable. It obviously sees STOVL as an answer.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
NASA has selected privately owned Axiom Space of Houston to provide a commercial habitation module to be attached to the International Space Station.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Two Northrop Grumman MQ-4Cs have officially started the high-altitude UAS' first operational deployment, the U.S. Navy says.
Defense

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Fast-growing LCC Wizz Air had selected Pratt & Whitney’s GTF engine to power 166 Airbus A320neo family aircraft the Hungarian LCC has on order, Pratt said Jan. 27.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Honeywell has partnered with U.S. startup Jetoptera to explore fluidic propulsion for military cargo and surveillance UAS.
Defense

By Sean Broderick
A new mandate to de-pair high-time Rolls-Royce Trent 1000s related to unexplained engine compressor surge issues is not expected to lead to more Boeing 787 groundings, the manufacturer said.
Air Transport

CIT GROUP was selected to secure $87m loan to finance 5-story, 300,000 sq ft terminal logistics center being built at JFK by Triangle Equities
Aerospace

AAR

AAR was selected by Cleveland-based AeroControlex as exclusive distributor for its APU lube pumps and related piece-part components.
Aerospace

Yves Laforgue to Chief Executive Officer-Americas Region, based in Miami, of Bolloré Logistics.
Aerospace

Seán Dooley to Head of Technical Operations of Eirtech Aviation Services, Ireland.
Aerospace

Christian Smith to Senior Director-Leasing and Trading of AerSale, FL.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
A European consortium of industry and academia will develop a road Map for furthering hybrid-electric propulsion for commercial aircraft under a project funded by the European Commission (EC).
Aerospace

By Mark Carreau
Ad Astra Rocket Co. is poised to bring the company’s Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket electric propulsion system to a Technical Readiness Level of 6.
Defense

PRATT & WHITNEY has Wizz Air order to supply GTFs for another 166 A320neo Family aircraft, increasing projected fleet to 276 (seven delivered); deal
Aerospace

EIRTECH AVIATION SERVICES combined its CAMO and Technical Services departments to form single Technical Operations department.
Aerospace

BOEING completed first flight of the 777X (WH001) with GE9Xs on January 25; flight test program will include four dedicated 777-9s, which have >235-ft
Aerospace

JJ Frigge was promoted to President of Hartzell Propeller, Piqua, OH; Joe Brown was named Chairman.
Aerospace

UNIVERSAL ASSET MANAGEMENT acquired ex-TACA A320-200 (1334) from Fortress Investment Group for part out.
Air Transport

MOOG AIRCRAFT CONTROLS earned $38.6m on $340m sales for first quarter ended December 31 vs $33.2m on $304m a year ago; commercial aircraft revenues
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Eviation’s Alice catches fire; Boeing teams on ducted fans; Boom plans XB-1 flights; SkyDrive readies eVTOL; Bell demos cargo drone.
Aerospace