The Week in Business Aviation - April 17

FAA Lists Requirements For Drones Battling Pandemic

More than a dozen companies and government agencies are seeking to use drones in ways that are beyond what is currently allowed by FAA regulations to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said April 15.

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Startup Aims New Fuel-Cell Design At Urban Air Mobility Market

A startup producing hydrogen propulsion systems for unmanned aircraft is targeting the urban air mobility (UAM) market with a new type of fuel cell. 

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Gulfstream Continues Most Production Through Pandemic

At Gulfstream Aerospace, most manufacturing, service and flight test facilities at its headquarters in Savannah, Georgia, have remained operational through the COVID-19 outbreak, as the business is considered critical by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber & Industrial Security Agency. 

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U.S. DOT Announces CARES Act Grant Amounts For U.S. Airports

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) announced emergency grants totaling $10 billion for hundreds of airports across all 50 states, with awards ranging in size from just $1,000 for the smallest airports to hundreds of millions of dollars for the largest.

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GA Airports Weathering COVID-19 Storm

Once COVID-19 infection and death rates decline and governments ease restrictions on movements, some experts are concerned that difficulties may arise at airports that specialize in business aircraft traffic. 

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Aurora Founder Plans Hybrid-Electric Regional STOL Venture

John Langford, founder and former CEO of Aurora Flight Sciences, is launching a new venture to develop hybrid-electric regional transport aircraft. 

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Spirit Aero Warns COVID-19 Will Hammer Quarterly Results

Spirit AeroSystems—the primary supplier to Boeing including for much of the 737 MAX and which does substantial defense industry work—warned Wall Street on April 14 it will record a roughly $160 million loss for the recently ended first quarter of 2020, as well as a pretax loss of around $102 million.

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Be The Match Seeking BizAv’s Help To Deliver Marrow

With a dramatic decline in airline flights during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming challenging for some bone marrow donors in rural areas  to travel to distribution sites and for donor stem cells to reach their intended recipients in time for the patient to survive, according to Be The Match.

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Test Sites Named For Drone Traffic Management Demos

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites in New York and Virginia will participate in the second phase of a UAS Traffic Management pilot program, the FAA announced on April 10.

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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the biz av market is seeing dozens of companies looking to use drones, production has continued at Gulfstream and GA airports are preparing to whether the storm. 

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