Aerospace Manufacturing & Supply Chain
May 10, 2022
French industry launches new promotion effort to hire young production workers amidst concern low interest may hamper production ramp-up.
May 09, 2022
Sikorsky looks for new international buyers, upgrades for U.S. Army helos.
May 06, 2022
First-quarter 2022 financial reports from Airbus and Boeing were snapshots of the different fates the two leading airframers face. Listen in as Aviation Week editors Jens Flottau, Guy Norris and Michael Bruno discuss the increasingly diverging paths within the duopoly.
May 06, 2022
Boeing remains a going concern, but it cannot shake the specter of an existential crisis. A resolution may be far from clear.
May 06, 2022
The development phase for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft has been extended four years due to COVID-19 supply chain delays.
Sep 14, 2021
The U.S. Export-Import Bank has renewed a guarantee supporting aircraft-engine sales while Reta Jo Lewis has been nominated to lead the export credit agency.
Sep 14, 2021
Thomas Huber will lead Mercury’s “1MPACT” strategic review announced last month during its fourth-quarter fiscal 2021 earnings release, when it acknowledged a slowdown in organic business growth.
Sep 14, 2021
Vertex Aerospace, a legacy L3 Technologies unit providing logistics, MRO and supply chain management, has bought up a number of business lines from Raytheon Technologies as it moves into the latter stages of post-merger divestitures.
Sep 13, 2021
UK advanced air mobility startup Vertical Aerospace is gearing up to begin assembly of its VA-X4 engineering prototype to fly in 2022.
Sep 09, 2021
For years, Wichita State University’s research and development arm, the National Institute for Aviation Research, has tried to recruit a large maintenance, repair and overhaul facility to Wichita.
Sep 09, 2021
Turkish Aerospace (TUSAS) has been awarded two contracts by Spirit AeroSystems. Turkish Aerospace will manufacture and supply Section 48 – Tail Feather for Boeing 737 MAX-8 and over 400 parts and sub-assemblies for various Boeing platforms.
Sep 08, 2021
Turboprops own the niche of short, low-density sectors into small or challenging airfields – a common enough description of domestic air travel in Africa. But is it a viable market?
Sep 06, 2021
Saudi Aramco’s senior vice president of Technical Services, Ahmad Al-Sa’adi, recently inaugurated the first fiberglass rebar facility in Saudi Arabia, IKK Mateenbar.