Aerospace

Patrick M. Shanahan to interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita. Thomas C. Gentile III resigned.

SAFRAN was selected by Japan Airlines to supply premium economy, business and first class seats for 13 A350-1000s.

JET PARTS ENGINEERING, WA has FAA approval for 12 new PMAs/DER repairs, including 737 MAX heat exchanger gaskets, pneumatic solenoid valve assemblies, CFM56-5 fan blade spacers and V2500 engine LPC bracket assemblies.

IPERIONX, NC has GKN Aerospace order to provide titanium plate test components manufactured via Hydrogen Sintering and Phase Transformation technologies to deliver strength/fatigue properties comparable to wrought titanium alloys.

SATCOM DIRECT was selected by Planet Nine Private Air, CA as its preferred connectivity supplier with SD Plane Simple.

BOEING rolled out the first 747 this week in 1968. It produced 1,574 747s.

NEPTUNE AVIATION, MT was appointed by Garmin as an authorized dealer for GPS nav systems, transponders, displays, and other aviation products.

DOKASCH, Frankfurt achieved technical approval for its temperature-controlled Opticooler RKN active containers with American Airlines Cargo.

EXPLEO was selected by Spirit AeroSystems to provide engineering services out of Tulsa, OK for program development using AI, digital twin and automation to maximize cost efficiency and accelerate time-to-market.

EMBRAER had US$57.9m net income on US$1.3b revenues in 2Q23 vs US$46.2m on US$1b in 2Q22. It has $17.3b backlog.

Opening of the facility is a public sign of the progress being made by electric-aircraft startup Beta Technologies

Flying hydrogen laboratory; trainer flies on SAF; Joby eVTOL for Korea; and airport cargo robot.

BAA TRAINING opened €30m pilot training facility near Paris-Orly; facility currently accommodates three full-flight simulators (747-400 and two 737NGs) with a fourth (A320neo) due in 4Q23 and fifth/sixth (TBA) in 2024-2025.

LEKI AVIATION opened new sales office in Medellin, Colombia.

The rules, regulations and parameters within which vertiports will operate are all works in progress.

IT is being embraced to move passengers through airports quickly and efficiently.

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.

To many foreign observers, the fast-growing Chinese advanced air mobility industry is a black box.

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

Canadian air taxi startup Horizon Air recently announced a design change from five to seven seats for its hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

German aerospace center DLR has taken delivery of a Dornier 328-100 modified by Deutsche Aircraft to be a flying testbed for sustainable aviation technologies.

Ispace technologies U.S. has unveiled a redesigned Series 2 lunar lander renamed the APEX 1.0.

AURA AERO, France received EASA Part 21J (industrial design) approval to become a full aircraft (INTEGRAL) manufacturer, from design to production.

CRANFIELD AEROSPACE SOLUTIONS (CAeS) announced a three-party agreement with MONTE Aircraft Leasing and Torres Strait Air, Australia to convert up to 10 Britten-Norman Islander aircraft to hydrogen-electric power.