Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The Rhode-Island-based startup also announced plans to build out a 600,000 ft.² production facility to fulfill an estimated $8 billion in customer orders.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Australia’s Rex Airlines has taken a 20% stake in startup Dovetail Electric Aviation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris
A production problem with vertical stabilizer fittings will force Boeing to repair some undelivered 737 MAXs and delay an unspecified number of deliveries.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
New Wisk CEO Brian Yutko is doubling down on his company’s bet that it can safely certify an autonomous, passenger-carrying electric air taxi this decade.
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