With more than three months to go before opening day, the National Business Aviation Association plans to provide an update in early July on the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, the world’s largest business aviation show. 

Switzerland’s Kopter Group has resumed flight-test activities in Sicily after a three-month hiatus caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Electric flight startup ZeroAvia has completed its first electrically driven flight in the UK as it gears up its operations to demonstrate a 250-300-nm flight with its hydrogen fuel cell technology.

About 250 Textron Aviation employees received 60-day layoff notices June 23, including 70 in Wichita, as the company adjusts to the economic uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company told employees. 

Tupolev has released specifications and a seven-year schedule for completing design of a 30-seat, supersonic business jet, which includes flying a testbed aircraft possibly derived from the Tu-160 bomber. 

Be The Match, a not-for-profit operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, has a particular shortage of volunteer pilots to fly donors or bone marrow and their couriers in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions of the U.S. and between Canada and the U.S. 

As Textron Aviation plans to restructure and reduce its workforce, company officials have asked the Machinists union to open contract negotiations early. 

Fractional ownership provider NetJets has launched the Advanced Qualification Program to customize pilot training based on human factors.