The plan to relaunch Italy’s Piaggio Aero Industries as a civil and defense aircraft manufacturer is gaining momentum some 20 months after moving production from an aging plant in Genoa to a clean-sheet-design factory in Villanova d’Albenga, about 56 mi. southwest.

Mitsubishi is considering building one, or perhaps two, extra flight-test aircraft to help it through its certification process for the heavily delayed Mitsubishi Regional Jet.

Inmarsat has launched a satellite communications service for unmanned aircraft using a small terminal developed by Cobham Satcom.

The Air Force initially surveyed the pilots at Luke AFB to understand their concerns; it then began educating them on the details of the F-35’s onboard oxygen generation system in order to begin rebuilding confidence at the wing.

Leonardo’s development of the M-345 low-cost jet trainer may already be paying dividends after it was selected by two foreign air arms.

Boeing Defense Space & Security President/CEO Leanne Caret noted that finalizing Foreign Military Sales can take time: “This is a long game that we’re playing here,” she told reporters in Paris for the air show.

Lockheed Martin introduced a new variant of the C-130J Super Hercules configured for international military special operations missions, called the C-130J-SOF.

The U.S. Air Force F-35s at an Arizona Air Force base will be back in the skies starting June 21 after an 11-day pause, although the service has instated a temporary flight restriction following a spate of hypoxia-like cockpit incidents.