Business Aviation & AAM Report

For any company, standing up on its own is daunting; for Honeywell Aerospace, the bar will be even higher.

Indian startup BluJ Aerospace is developing a family of electric and hydrogen-electric VTOL aircraft aimed first at cargo and logistics missions, with passenger service planned as a longer-term goal.

Dutch electric aircraft developer Maeve Aerospace has been declared bankrupt after failing to raise additional funding.

Draco Aircraft is looking to secure a third investor that should give it sufficient capital to launch a development and certification program of its Wilga PZL-104-based platform.

Chinese eVTOL maker DreamFly Aerotech is betting on hybrid propulsion and a cargo-first, passenger-second strategy as its path to market.

Skyfly plans to begin transition flight testing of its Axe personal eVTOL later this year while targeting first flights of a second aircraft by year’s end.

AeroDelft, a student-run foundation at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has begun taxi tests of a gaseous hydrogen-fueled light aircraft.

Fractional ownership and jet card provider Airshare will equip its Embraer Phenom 300s with the Gogo Galileo HDX satellite communications terminal, Gogo says.

Vista is deepening its reliance on Bombardier aircraft as the company expands a global private aviation network.

Daher is conducting standardization work with Airbus and ATR, aiming at common definitions for hardware in future high-voltage electric systems.

ZeroAvia founder steps down as CEO as hydrogen propulsion startup shifts focus to fuel-cell system development.

Demand for Europe-Singapore traffic has increased following disruptions affecting Middle Eastern air hubs.

Roughly 100 days after the APAC AAM Leadership Summit at the Singapore Airshow, the region’s focus has shifted from big promises to “boring yet indispensable groundwork."

Leonardo Helicopters has opened a maintenance, repair facility in London that will serve the company’s growing number of UK rotorcraft customers.

Pre-owned business jet sales plummet 27% in early 2026 as post-tariff demand stabilizes.

Honda says its full-scale uncrewed electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing demonstrator competed it first hover flight in early April in the U.S.

JSX continues to evaluate the nine-passenger hybrid-electric EL9, which the public charter operator believes has potential to open up many underserved markets.

Platoon Aviation has signed a multi-aircraft order with Textron Aviation which will make it the owner of Europe’s largest Cessna Citation Longitude fleet.

German electric aircraft startup Vaeridion has started producing battery packs at its new facility in Oberpfaffenhofen.

Signature Aviation has begun construction on a $10 million project, which includes 22,000 ft.2 of hangar space at Roanoke-Blacksburg Airport in Virginia.

U.S. synthetic fuel developer Syntholene expects its demonstration facility in Iceland to be operational as soon as June, six months ahead of schedule.

Canada plans to acquire the Saab GlobalEye AEW&C aircraft to upgrade the country’s air warfare capability and bolster Bombardier as the aircraft supplier.

Electra.aero is forecasting U.S. demand for 12,000-16,000 short-haul regional shuttle aircraft in the first 10 years of operation.

JCAB has become the third regulator to qualify Loft Dynamics’ virtual-reality helicopter simulator as a Level 7 flight training device.

South Korea has launched projects to develop a 4,500-lb. thrust-class high-bypass turbofan for collaborative combat aircraft and more-electric business jets.