Chinese-owned Dornier Seawings has acquired the rights to a light amphibious aircraft that it plans to produce alongside the 12-passenger Seastar CD2 flying boat.

After Denmark’s Prime Minister in January set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, a massive Danish project to produce sustainable fuels from renewable energy is investigating whether it can begin jet fuel production in 2025, two years earlier than planned.

The EU’s transport ministers have issued a declaration that they hope sets the stage for a long-term aspirational goal on aviation sustainability to be adopted at the ICAO Assembly in September.

Boeing says successful tests of an all-composite cryogenic fuel tank at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center clear the way for large-scale application of the lightweight technology in future spacecraft and aircraft.

Istanbul’s Bogazici University has inaugurated what is claimed to be Turkey’s, and Europe’s, first carbon-negative biorefinery, designed to produce a range of algae-based biotech products including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

Daher, a tier-one supplier of major composites and metallic subassemblies, has entered final negotiations with Triumph for the acquisition of a metal aerostructures factory in Stuart, Florida.

An ATR 72-600 prototype performed a series of ground and flight tests with one of its turboprop engines running on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

The LMS-901 Baikal light turboprop is seen as a successor to Russia’s ageing fleet of Soviet mass-produced Antonov An-2 piston-engine utility aircraft.