The Week in Business Aviation - June 22

Spartan placed an order for its first tranche of factory-new Piper Archers and Seminoles. To date, it has taken delivery of 10 Piper Archers and two Piper Seminoles with an additional 10 Piper Archers to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2020.  

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Honeywell has unveiled a thermal management system designed for vertical takeoff and electric urban air mobility vehicles (UAM) that will be introduced on Eviation Aircraft’s all-electric Alice aircraft.

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While the first electric air taxi prototypes are already flying on available lithium-ion batteries, developers are hoping for significant advances in energy storage to squeeze more performance out of their vehicles.

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Startup SkyDrive has confirmed plans for a public flight demonstration this summer of Japan’s first manned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.

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Aircraft developer Aerion Supersonic confirms that the COVID-19 pandemic has forced it to delay development of the AS2 supersonic business jet, pushing first flight back from 2024 to 2025, but says the overall program otherwise continues as planned.

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Leonardo Helicopters has secured European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for the Safran Aneto 1K-powered version of the AW189 super-medium helicopter.

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As the business aviation industry entered the new decade, Argus International analysts had been expecting North America flight activity to finally break 10,000 flights one weekday in 2020. 

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Gulfstream Aerospace has sold its last commercially available Gulfstream G550 large-cabin, ultra-long-range business jet, clearing the way for production of the iconic jet to wind down, the company announced June 17. 

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Fixed base operator Signature Flight Support has launched a safety, health and wellness standard, called SignatureAssure  for its FBOs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The jury is still out on whether business aviation will see long-term benefits from the raft of redundancies caused across the aerospace sector from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Honeywell has established an Unmanned Aerial Systems business unit focused on growing its presence in the emerging markets for drones and urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles.

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