The FAA says it will continue the work of a soon-to-end pilot effort with local and state governments and industry to introduce drones more regularly into the airspace system.

The appointment of Mitja Schulz as CEO completes an executive search announced in April.

Planned flight trials at FAA-designated UAS test sites in New York and Virginia will evaluate remote-identification technologies to track drones from the ground in increasingly complex traffic environments.

A robust low-boom design method developed by Japanese researchers should make it easier to certify future quiet supersonic transports, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says. 

China’s EHang is to launch an urban air mobility trial in Linz, Austria, the first operation of its kind in Europe.

Worldwide turboprop utilization in July reached its highest levels so far in 2020, with 85,574 multi-engine flight hours and 61,510 single-engine flight hours, according to Aviation Week Intelligence Network flight tracking data. 

Electric power train developer VerdeGo Aero is running what the startup describes as “the most powerful piston hybrid system in the world.”

General aviation operations at Chicago Executive Airport reached a five-year record for traffic in July, following a drop in the spring from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.