Seattle-area SPEEA professional and technical units have ratified new Boeing contracts, averting a strike that could have disrupted commercial production and new-aircraft certification.

AfA appoints Steve Smith CEO as Brandon Fried departs after 21 years, focusing on supply-chain pressures.

Airbus kicked off the flight test program for the A350F with a 4 hr., 11 min. first flight on Sept. 29.

Nearly 27 years after the final Blackbird flight, NASA quietly launched a project last summer to return an SR-71A to flight.

Airbus offers Eurofighter to replace Portugal’s F-16 fleet, promising industrial partnerships, local manufacturing and a 40-year technological presence.

Rolls-Royce is investing £300 million ($400 million) in its UK manufacturing and engineering facilities, primarily to expand civil aerospace operations.

Electric trainer flies; large cargo UAS takes shape; clean-sheet aerial firefighter flies; and Europe’s energy-dense aviation battery.

The CEO of FACC sees the completion of its expanded interior component manufacturing facility in Croatia as key to improving the Austrian aerospace supplier's productivity and lowering its cost base.