Archer Aviation and AEG plan to develop a vertiport at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles, adding a prominent new node to Archer’s planned Los Angeles-area air taxi network ahead of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Beta certification progress; Elroy matures cargo eVTOL; Ampaire’s hybrid-electric APU; and AIR picks SunTrax as base.

Boeing faces the prospect of another strike by Seattle-area workers after members of SPEEA’s Professional and Technical units there overwhelmingly rejected the company’s proposal for a new contract and authorized a labor stoppage come October.

Private equity owned Barnes Aerospace said it acquired Jet AirWerks, a South Central Kansas specialist in CFM56, CF6 and CF34 engine component maintenance, repair and overhaul.

High-supersonic propulsion, machine-learning avionics, air taxi noise and uncertainty in design are the research topics funded under the latest round of NASA’s University Leadership Initiative (ULI).

Iran says 100 of its commercial aircraft were damaged or destroyed in the first 40 days of the conflict with the U.S. and Israel.

A NASA-funded project has demonstrated an electric powertrain combining cryogenically-cooled power distribution with a superconducting electric motor to increase efficiency and power density.

A major U.S. Army training win is pushing Robinson and its R66 into new military territory.