Aircraft & Propulsion

China Southern Airlines has sent its first pair of Airbus A380s to Victorville Airport in southern California, marking the beginning of the end for China’s only superjumbo fleet.

Embraer delivered 55 aircraft in the 2021 fourth quarter (Q4) and 141 total jets for full-year 2021, falling short of Q4 2020’s level (71) but still exceeding 2020’s total deliveries (130).

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The top FAA job handover comes amid Boeing 787 delivery issues and the 5G connectivity rollout.

Pratt & Whitney is to design a high-efficiency, hydrogen-fueled aircraft turbine engine with funding support from the U.S. Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy.

An A380 will flight-test a hydrogen-burning turbine engine by the end of 2026 under a collaboration between Airbus and CFM International partners GE Aviation and Safran.

Airbus has delivered the first A319neo to China Southern Airlines, which becomes the first commercial operator of the shortened A320neo family aircraft.

With air cargo demand on the rise and capacity scarce, new freighters are in the spotlight.

The twin-aisle aircraft, reg B-58301, is the first of eight A330neo arriving on lease from Air Lease Corporation.

Aviation businesses that make it through the global shock of the last few years will come out seeing some things differently.

Germany green-hydrogen investment platform Hy2gen has completed a €200 million ($226.4 million) fundraising round.

Efforts to increase the availability of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Asia are gathering pace.

Executives at the show described 2022 as a “year of transition,” a turning point before the industry accelerates in 2023 and beyond.

LCC Cebu Pacific is keen to bring forward deliveries of its new Airbus A330neos if the market recovery and conditions allows the Philippines-based airline to do so.

The first experimental prototype of Joby Aviation’s S4 electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi crashed on Feb. 16 during a remotely piloted flight at the company’s remote flight test base in Big Sur, California.

Airbus plans to increase commercial aircraft deliveries by around 20% this year, betting on a sustained recovery in air travel and demand for new aircraft.

Study will cover a range of applications for new propulsion technologies.

USA BioEnergy has selected Bon Weir, Texas, as the location for its first biorefinery producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel from wood waste.

Malaysia-headquartered LCC AirAsia plans to lease Vertical Aerospace VX4 electric air taxis from Avolon to develop an urban air mobility service (UAM) in Southeast Asia.

Without giving specifics on its expectations for market share over the next 20 years, Boeing VP of commercial marketing Darren Hulst says the target is to win as many customer campaigns as possible in the region.

OEM says it will be one of the largest water bombers.

As Singapore Airlines finalized its order, Etihad signed a letter of intent to acquire seven of the freighter.

Lessor BOC Aviation has ordered eight shipsets of CFM International Leap 1A engines to power new Airbus A320neo family aircraft on order and scheduled for delivery in 2023.

Indian regional carrier Alliance Air has signed a deal to acquire two ATR 42-600s via lessor TrueNoord, with deliveries to start in the middle of this year.

Virgin Group has formed a strategic partnership with chemical recycling company Agilyx to build a plant in the U.S. to convert plastic waste into synthetic crude oil than will then be refined into lower-carbon fuels including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for use by Virgin Atlantic.