Just months after buying the factories as part of a prepandemic acquisition spree, Connecticut-based aero engine supplier Whitcraft Group is auctioning several plants across the U.S. next month as part of a retrenchment effort.

Using AC-U-KWIK’s airport distance calculator, can you work out where in Europe you are starting, finishing and having a pitstop with the clues?

Molly McMillin, [email protected]  Daher has rolled out the 1,000th TBM turboprop from its final assembly line in Tarbes, France. 

Already on a tight schedule to deliver community acceptance data to regulators, NASA has revealed that COVID-19 challenges have pushed the first flight of its X-59 QueSST low-boom flight demonstrator back to summer 2022, from late 2021.

Barring the equivalent of light speed regulatory action in Europe, Spirit AeroSystems appears unlikely to close its proposed $420 million acquisition of Asco Industries—at least not under the current terms that expire Oct. 1.

Flight services provider DroneUp on Sept. 22 announced a pilot program with Walmart and Quest Diagnostics to deliver COVID-19 test sample collection kits by drone in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

Partners in Aviation co-founder and President Mark Molloy is a professional matchmaker, although his matchups involve bringing together those wanting to co-own a business aircraft. 

Textron Aviation avoided a strike by its hourly workforce when members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers accepted the company’s final offer of a new four-year labor contract on Sept. 19.