Business Aviation & AAM Report

Israeli startup AIR has selected Dynon Avionics to provide the avionics and flight displays for its portfolio of eVTOLs.

The Aviation Week Business Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast, which provides a detailed engine fleet projection for the next 10 years, reveals which engine types and associated OEMs will lead deliveries to Europe.

The June 2026 Program Profile features Textron Aviation's Model 560XL, which includes the Citation Excel, XLS, XLS+, XLS Gen2 and Ascend.

Appointments and promotions in the business aviation and AAM industry.

SOFWerx plans to assess the capabilities of uncrewed aircraft with hybrid-electric propulsion and channel wings for vertical takeoff and landing.

Bombardier CRJ program owner MHIRJ Aviation Group (MHIRJ) has opened an advanced design office in Munich headed by the former CTO of Maeve Aerospace.

Electric propulsion developer Whisper Aero says testing of its JetFoil upper surface blowing tech has confirmed the capability for near-vertical takeoffs and landings without the complexity and noise of exposed propellers.

GE Aerospace is moving toward flight tests of a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine system on a modified Saab 340B testbed.

Electra.aero completed the first urban demo of its EL2 Ultra Short demonstrator on May 28.

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.