Charging infrastructure is cited as one of barriers to be overcome if electric aviation is to take off, and a Californian company is demonstrating how chargers can be provided at small airports while avoiding the challenges of permitting and construction.

The Air Charter Association (ACA) has formed a new group made up of young aviation industry professionals focused on helping form the direction of the association and future of the industry. 

Since March, private aviation has highlighted the inherent advantages it offers people who need to travel but are unwilling to take the risk of exposure to COVID-19 that comes with flying on a commercial airliner. But how best to identify and address this potential new market?

Gulfstream Aerospace delivered 32 aircraft in the third quarter, down from 38 a year ago, although sales activity in the quarter was a “quantum leap” better than in the second quarter, a top official said.  

Alphabet’s internet connectivity provider Loon has claimed a stratospheric flight duration record of 312 days with one of its autonomous balloons.

As it looks ahead to certifying its VoloCity electric air taxi by the end of 2022, Germany’s Volocopter is working with a Lufthansa subsidiary to build the digital backbone for its planned urban air mobility service.

The FAA has issued an updated request for information (RFI) to industry under the interagency Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR) program, seeking information on commercial products that could replace some legacy radar systems.

Italy is to purchase an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform based on the Gulfstream G550, defense planning documents have revealed.