Aerospace

Intelsat is turning to Switzerland-based SWISSto12 to provide a small geostationary satellite outfitted with 12 Ku-band transponders for regional communications services.

MOOG AIRCRAFT CONTROLS earned $123.6m on $1.3b sales for year ended October 1 vs $96.7m on $1.2b a year ago.

TURKISH CABIN INTERIOR SYSTEMS, TSI AVIATION SEATS and CORNEA are being merged by Turkish Airlines.

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS announced private offering of $800m of senior secured first lien notes to repay debt and commenced cash offer for any and all of

WENCOR was selected by Korry Electronics as exclusive distributor in Asia (on top of Europe/Middle East/Americas) of human-machine interface solutions

INDRA agreed to acquire Selex ES' ATM business (navaids) from Leonardo.

HENSOLDT, Germany received EASA certification for new SferiRec LCR10 flight recorder for light aircraft, drones, business jets and light helicopters.

REBTECH, TX and AVEO ENGINEERING, Czech Republic formed partnership to provide night vision solutions and lighting products.

MONTE AIRCRAFT LEASING, UK signed LOI to purchase 40 modification kits from Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS) to convert Britten-Norman Islanders

ROLLS-ROYCE says large engine flying hours were 65% of 2019 levels for the four months to the end of October 2022.

TATA ADVANCED SYSTEMS, India extended manufacturing agreement with GE Aerospace for LEAP components.

EMBRAER delivered 10 E-Jets in 3Q22 vs nine in 3Q21, and 27 in first nine months of 2022 vs 32 a year ago; it has firm order backlog of 297 E-Jets

Israel’s Gadfin Aero-Logistics Systems has secured a service contract from the country’s largest medical logistics company to operate an on-demand drone delivery network connecting all of the country’s major hospitals, flying medical supplies over a radius of up to 200 km (125 mi.).

Australian electric air taxi startup AMSL Aero is among 12 projects that have been awarded federal government grants under the first round of the Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships program.

Design is beginning on large-scale airframe modification programs that will convert two A380s into flying technology testbeds.

Electric R44 milestone; Hamburg sustainability drive; Autonomous flight progress; eVTOLs for medical delivery; European detect-and-avoid.

Brief news items of interest to advanced air mobility professionals.

Deliveries of the Aero2 tiltwing uncrewed medical delivery aircraft to Spright are planned to begin in 2025.

Merlin is developing the Merlin Pilot autonomous flight system and is working on FAA supplemental type certification of the capability, initially on the Cessna Caravan.

The industry is looking to digitalization to offset higher prices and workforce challenges.

Does Boeing risk becoming a value trap, a promising public company suffering stormy days, yet never able to get through them?

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

Recreational flights in New York may pave the way for public acceptance of the new technology.

The chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission announced Nov. 3 that she would reorganize the agency to create a standalone Space Bureau to better support the needs of the growing satellite industry.

Virgin Galactic is set to return its first SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity to test flights in the coming months following the completion of upgrade work and says it remains on track to begin the long-delayed start of commercial spaceflights in the second quarter of 2023.