Aerospace

As the industry’s biggest air show of 2026 approaches, Aviation Week editors and data analysts sit down to discuss the latest hot points in defense, commercial aviation and space — and take your questions live.

What shifts have occurred in market projections? How many aircraft and engines will manufacturers deliver in the coming decade?

As we advance into 2027, what transformations are reshaping business aviation and helicopter market projections? What production and delivery volumes can the industry anticipate over the coming decade?

The Airbus A350F has started its flight-test campaign, and the Boeing 777-8F will soon follow. The two aircraft may benefit from substantial pent-up demand.

The FAA’s proposed rule seems more likely to create a boom market for regulatory gaming than to drive real technological progress.

Seattle-area SPEEA professional and technical units have ratified new Boeing contracts, averting a strike that could have disrupted commercial production and new-aircraft certification.

Aviation Week spoke with Jeff Miller, Principal & Global Industry Leader for Federal, Aerospace, Defense, and Electronics at Rockwell Automation, about finding and eliminating those hidden delays.

PLD Space has signed an agreement with the French space agency CNES that could see its proposed Miura 9 rocket fly from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

German rocket startup HyImpulse says it has secured its UK launch operator license as it targets suborbital and then orbital flights from Scotland's SaxaVord Spaceport.

Explore four financing strategies A&D companies use to strengthen liquidity, execute contracts and fund growth at every stage.

EHang is working around an indefinite regulatory stall at home, exporting its sandbox playbook to Vietnam.

CycloTech validates cycloidal-rotor propulsion, enabling precise directional control without tilting in a two-year flight campaign.

SAF projects achieve demonstration milestones; commercial plants planned using forest residues, renewable gas and Fischer-Tropsch technology.

North American regional airlines are recovering from pandemic lows, facing pilot shortages and exploring new tech to meet demand for underserved small communities.

Boeing continues to deliver 737 MAXs while it grapples with how to address an identified risk embedded in its latest flight management system (FMS) software that operators are refusing to use.

German aerospace center DLR has completed a research and technology project on outboard ailerons for high aspect ratio wings, in a bid to meet a need for gust alleviation and flutter suppression.

Fifteen states are suing the FAA over “insufficient evaluation of the environmental consequences of commercial drone package delivery.”

Airbus kicked off the flight test program for the A350F with a 4 hr., 11 min. first flight on Sept. 29.

Skyports and Ras Al Khaimah Transport Authority signed an agreement to develop a four-vertiport network in the emirate, with commercial services launching in Q3 2027.

Nearly 27 years after the final Blackbird flight, NASA quietly launched a project last summer to return an SR-71A to flight.

Airbus offers Eurofighter to replace Portugal’s F-16 fleet, promising industrial partnerships, local manufacturing and a 40-year technological presence.

Rolls-Royce is investing £300 million ($400 million) in its UK manufacturing and engineering facilities, primarily to expand civil aerospace operations.

Virginia tests new airspace procedures for advanced air mobility, using vertiports and low-level routes to support electric and hybrid aircraft operations.

Electric trainer flies; large cargo UAS takes shape; clean-sheet aerial firefighter flies; and Europe’s energy-dense aviation battery.

Boeing has informed the FAA and airlines of an error in the 737's automated flight guidance software in the case of a landing missed approach.