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Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

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Airbus has made several substantial changes to its leadership team following the decision to carve out its commercial aircraft business into a separate unit.

The company plans to develop a fully autonomous docking system for the Cygnus.

Use of the technology readiness level model for production is being reexamined.

Aviation Week’s latest forecast projects Airbus and Boeing narrowbody aircraft will make up the majority of MRO visits in Europe over the next decade.

The company says the trials are an “important step” as the AAM industry prepares to introduce eVTOL aircraft.

Deeply intertwined supply chains mean that breaking up is not just hard to do—in some cases, it is impossible.

Airbus has begun constructing a new maintenance facility for Germany’s fleet of A400M airlifters.

The custom battery cell selected by the unidentified aircraft developer has an energy density of 400 Wh/kg.

EasyJet has become the first airline to buy carbon credits from Airbus’ Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS) scheme.

As airlines scramble for capacity, lessors enjoy much higher rates and predict the good times are here to stay.

As Christian Scherer takes up the mantle of Airbus Commercial Aircraft CEO, editors are joined by analyst Sash Tusa to discuss why Airbus is making the change.

The Wichita aerostructures giant’s new leader has a familiar but formidable list of tasks to help set the company in the right direction.

De Saint-Exupery is currently Airbus' senior vice president for contracts and a close aide to sales chief Christian Scherer.

A project involving fewer pilots on the flight deck is maturing—and meeting increased resistance as a result.

A clean-sheet design could shake off dust gathering on the 737 and offer significant profit and fuel savings.

For too long, OEMs assumed that compliant aerostructures suppliers were a given. That era is over, and aerospace stakeholders must plan for a new reality.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Sales and strategy expert Christian Scherer to run Airbus Commercial Aircraft.

China is learning the science of airliners, but politics remains an issue, experts say.

After a pre-pandemic boom, Chinese lessors have sharply curtailed their business expansion.

Airbus is carving out its commercial aircraft business as a separate entity and has named sales chief Christian Scherer as the new unit’s CEO.

China’s decades as aviation’s fastest growth country is over for now, and it will take years for aircraft deliveries to return to previous levels.