Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The Maeve 01 is planned to enter service with 44 seats but will be sized to seat 52 passengers when upgraded with higher-performance batteries.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus has just selected Liebherr-Aerospace as a supplier for its hydrogen fuel cell demonstration program on a modified A380.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris
New pilot-performance validation methods will debut as part of the 737-7’s certification. But first, they have to be developed.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is moving funding around and requesting more in fiscal 2024 to upgrade the two existing Boeing VC-25As that fly the Air Force One mission.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Victoria Moores
ASL Airlines Ireland (ASLI) has received Irish CAA approval to operate unmanned aerial systems (UAS) on a commercial basis.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Liebherr-Aerospace is developing an air supply system for the propulsion fuel cell Airbus intends to flight-test beginning in 2026.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Boeing 737 MAX deliveries surged in March to 52, nearly doubling the first two months of the year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Airbus reported deliveries of 127 aircraft in the first quarter of 2023, down 9% on the number of aircraft handed over to customers in Q1 last year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris
Prolonged certification programs for the last two 737 MAX variants are not helping Boeing's 737 production ramp-up plans.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
The Akureyri-based carrier has canceled all flights due to a dispute over lease payments between wet-lease specialist Hi Fly and lessor Avolon.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
The financing comes as SkyDrive works to certify its aircraft in time to launch commercial air taxi service for the 2025 World Expo being hosted in Osaka.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
NASA is funding further work on a near-silent propulsion system for urban drones—and potentially air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Universal Hydrogen is making progress in the development of its hydrogen conversion kit for the ATR 72-600 regional turboprop.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Airbus is doubling capacity at its Chinese plant by adding a second final assembly line as it aims to produce 75 A320neo family aircraft a month in 2026.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
Lufthansa is growing its nascent A321F fleet as the number of narrowbody freighters in Europe is on the rise.
Airlines & Lessors

By Thierry Dubois
Without production challenges, around 30 aircraft might have been delivered last year—still a low number compared with the previous decade.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
The new hangar will host the final assembly line, with an airfield for development flight tests and production check flights.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The HY4 is planned to begin flight tests using liquid hydrogen and fuel cells in June.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
What if a startup chose to cut out the intermediary steps and start instead with a larger platform? That is the bet that Lyte Aviation is making.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
In the concept of single-pilot operations, a pilot may spend long phases of flight, if not the entire flight, alone in the cockpit of a commercial aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Airship developer Flying Whales has selected Honeywell's 1-megawatt power system for its LCA60T large-capacity hybrid-electric cargo airship.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
The industry says book-and-claim can support SAF while supplies are extremely limited as it does not require the buyer to own or use the physical fuel.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
LanzaJet has partnered with Jet Zero Australia to start planning work on what could be Australia’s first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Queensland.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Volocopter plans to begin piloted test flights of its first production-standard VoloCity eVTOL air taxi in July.
Advanced Air Mobility