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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
