AIRBUS delivered 63 aircraft (four A220s; 51 A320 Family; three A330s; five A350s) in March 2024 vs 61 (five A220s; 51 A320 Family; three A330s; two A350s) in March 2023; it delivered 142 aircraft in 1Q24 vs 127 in 1Q23. It announced order for an A319neo from a private customer and ended quarter with 8,626 aircraft on backlog vs 6,604 a year ago.
SEAL DYNAMICS (HEICO) was appointed by Crane Aerospace & Electronics as its exclusive distributor of ELDEC brand proximity sensors and switches to the commercial aerospace aftermarket.
PRATT & WHITNEY is adding Florida-based North American Technoloty Accelerator (NATA) aftermarket operations center, focusing on material restoration and process automation including advanced repairs, digital inspection, adaptive processing, and coating and masking for compressor and fan parts, blades, cases, and additive repairs for GTF parts.
Japan has selected research themes for funding support under a program to develop hydrogen-electric propulsion technologies for next-gen commercial aircraft.
The effort is based on the prospect that lunar resources can be mined and processed into construction materials at a lower cost than launching them from Earth.
Surf Air Mobility is the latest publicly traded AAM startup to be threatened with delisting after its share price fell below $1 for 30 consecutive days.
The flight of a Russian Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome was automatically aborted 2 min. before the planned 5:00 a.m. EDT April 9 liftoff.
As part of a demonstration, Astrobotic will use an AI-enabled software program to control and monitor its CubeRover lunar rover on its upcoming Moon mission.
