The Weekly of Business Aviation

Private equity owned Barnes Aerospace said it acquired Jet AirWerks, a South Central Kansas specialist in CFM56, CF6 and CF34 engine component maintenance, repair and overhaul.

New Zealand manufacturer NZAero has restarted production of its CT-4 trainer, and is also close to securing a new support agreement for the Royal Thai Air Force.

After its Lift Challenge came tantalizingly close to demonstrating that a drone can lift four times its own weight, DARPA has launched a program to mature the technology for military and commercial applications.

Yivtol delivers its ultralight eVTOL to North America, with plans for global insurance, FAA certification and U.S. manufacturing.

Skypuzzler is developing a “digital air traffic controller” that it says could provide the tactical deconfliction needed as drone operations scale beyond today’s relatively low-density operations.

Plans for drone deliveries in the U.S. are accelerating as the FAA prepares to release a final rule enabling routine BVLOS commercial operations.

China’s AutoFlight has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesian helicopter operator Whitesky Aviation for 60 V2000EM Prosperity passenger eVTOLs.

A German aviation logistics company is planning to adapt a pair of former C-160 Transall turboprop airlifters into aerial firefighting aircraft for deployment in Europe.

Lockheed Martin and Verizon have demonstrated the ability to detect small drones using signals from existing cellular networks.

Israeli startup AIR selects Florida’s SunTrax as its U.S. manufacturing and flight test site for the personal eVTOL aircraft.

Chinese eVTOL developer AutoFlight conducted an uncrewed flight of its Prosperity air taxi on July 24.

Electric aircraft startup Joby Aviation is to acquire U.S. defense contractor Resonant Sciences, a developer of radomes and antennas for radar, electronic warfare, communications and navigation, for $450 million in cash and $50 million in equity.

Archer Aviation plans to acquire Boeing subsidiaries Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid in a deal that gives the eVTOL developer a major position in autonomous flight, uncrewed aircraft and airspace management technology.

Danny Deep has been appointed to the board of directors of General Dynamics, the parent company of Gulfstream Aerospace.

Divisions between the U.S. and Europe on certifying commercial eVTOL air taxis, and the safety levels demanded have been codified in new guidance issued by the FAA.

The Canadian government on Aug. 7 announced the conditional sale of 10 retired Lockheed Martin C-130Hs to British Columbia-based Coulson Aviation.

Ampaire has begun hybrid-electric flight operations in Utah under the FAA eVTOL Integration Pilot Program.

Joby Aviation is accelerating aircraft production and manufacturing as it prepares to begin flights under the U.S. eVTOL Integration Pilot Program in September.

U.S. startup Impact Drones has launched out of stealth offering drone interceptors as a service to protect data centers, airports, power grids and other infrastructure.

The decision by South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace to terminate a contract to supply actuators to electric air taxi developer Vertical Aerospace was mutually agreed to and a new supplier is onboard, the UK startup says.

Atoms, a real estate redevelopment company headed by Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick, has partnered with electric air taxi developer Joby Aviation to acquire and develop vertiports sites in the U.S.

Eve Air Mobility has signed an LOI with aviation finance company Shearwater Global Capital for up to 16 Eve 100 eVTOL air taxis.

Eve Air Mobility has completed the first partial transition flight with its remotely piloted engineering prototype.

De Havilland Canada is assembling its first four DHC-515 amphibians ahead of first flight in 2027-28.

AeroDelft, a student-run foundation at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has begun taxi tests of a gaseous hydrogen-fueled light aircraft.