Aerospace

AVAIR, AZ secured $60m inventory-based credit facility from San Francisco-based BizCap for additional working capital.

Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report adds a new feature this week to extend our coverage of the emerging AAM industry.

BOEING booked 909 orders (535 net) in 2021 vs 184 (-471) in 2020, and ended year with backlog of 5,136 vs 4,997.

BOEING delivered 38 commercial aircraft/derivatives (32 MAXs; 737NG; two 767s; two 777s; 747-8F) in December vs 39 (27 MAXs; 737NG; six 767s; four

MPS, The Netherlands has Aeromexico order for a 737 MAX FTD.

ALBERS AEROSPACE, TX is new name for The Albers Group. It operates three business units: Aerospace Manufacturing; Engineering, Aviation, & MRO; and

CAeS (Cranfield) signed easyJet to support development of a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system for commercial aircraft based on system currently

BOOM SUPERSONIC has 3-year, $60m Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract from USAF to accelerate critical design and development initiatives on

AIRBUS says all A220/A320 Family deliveries at Mobile, AL will include SAF blend. SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT and WORLD ENERGY will supply SAF.

EXPLEO was selected by Spirit AeroSystems to become preferred engineering services supplier at Belfast, Northern Ireland (formerly Short Brothers).

Catherine “Cat” Buchanan to Director of Business Development of STACK.aero, Sydney, Australia.

Craig Cooper to Vice President-Integrated Supply Chain and Operations of Triumph Group, Berwyn, PA.

Tim Russo was promoted to Vice President of OEM Distribution of STS Component Solutions, FL.

Pat Tyler to Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Business Development of STS Component Solutions, FL.

Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, will be the base for several micro-launchers, which will help the European industry progress in reusability, according to Philippe Baptiste, chairman and CEO of French space agency CNES.

Sweden’s Savback Helicopters is expanding the range of rotorcraft it sells, adding Dufour Aerospace’s electric tiltwing aircraft.

Start-up space services provider Astroscale has hired another startup, Orbit Fab, to refuel its planned fleet of orbital space tugs.

As Eve Urban Air Mobility prepares to go public as an independent entity, it is leaning heavily on its parent company Embraer and that includes access to its customer base.

Airbus is keeping a close eye on the COVID-19 situation in China’s Tianjin, home to the airframer’s only final assembly line in Asia, after authorities ordered a partial lockdown of the city in response to the detection of 40 cases linked to the omicron variant.

Saudi Arabia’s inaugural World Defense Show is set to have a major impact on the Kingdom’s local economy, according to a report by consultancy Ernst & Young.

The Emirates A380 with the blue Expo 2020 “mobility” livery has landed in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, carrying the football team of Real Madrid.

The January 2022 edition of AFRAA Sky-Connect will host Barry Kashambo - ICAO regional director - Eastern and Southern African Office.

Zero-emissions propulsion developer ZeroAvia has selected Paine Field as the location for a flight research center to support development of a hydrogen-electric powertrain for the De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 regional turboprop.

Netherlands’ Twente Airport is changing paths to embrace the evolving aviation landscape.

New factory to build prototypes for developmental and operational testing through 2025.