French product development group Conseil & Technique (C&T) has briefed Airbus on a design concept that can be used to modify an existing airliner such as the A320 to electric propulsion.
Finnair said it is now in a healthy financial position after a recapitalization and extensive cost-cutting that addressed the havoc wreaked on its business by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Around a decade after preparing to divest its aerostructures businesses, Airbus is now reversing course and wants to keep component manufacturing inside the group for the long term.
De Havilland Canada plans to suspend production of the Dash 8-400 regional turboprop, citing the difficulty of securing new orders in current industry conditions.
The U.S. aerospace industry provided a foreign trade surplus of around $43 billion in 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department reported this month, a notable achievement amid the onset of COVID-19 but almost half the sector’s 2019 level.
Renewable fuel producer Fulcrum BioEnergy has partnered with refinery operator Essar Oil (UK) to build a facility in northwest England to convert municipal solid waste into sustainable aviation fuel.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has once again selected CFM International’s LEAP-1A engine to power its latest order for 35 A320neo family aircraft placed in 2018.
Green shoots keep emerging in commercial aviation in the form of used vaccination needles, but despite those shots in the arm and recent OEM trimming of production rates—i.e., the long-awaited certainty of the other shoe to drop—mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in aerospace production look set for a mixed year at best.
The potential demand forecast for tens of thousands of delivery drones and air taxis means there is a growing need for propellers and rotors with better performance, lower noise and easier producibility.
Garuda Indonesia and Indonesia’s ministry of state-owned enterprises (BUMN) have moved to cut short a lease for 12 Bombardier CRJ1000 regional jets and return them to lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC).
Boeing and Safran have put their APU joint venture on hold because of changes in the commercial aviation market due to COVID-19, a Safran spokesperson has confirmed.
Boeing delivered 20 long-idled 737 MAXs from its stored backlog to customers in January and one from its production line, an Aviation Week analysis shows.
Embraer delivered 71 jets in the fourth quarter of 2020, consisting of 43 executive jets and 28 commercial aircraft, for a total of 130 aircraft delivered during the year, a 35% decrease from 2019.
Following Airbus’ drive to have a hydrogen-powered aircraft in service by 2035, several French players in commercial air transport have launched a “call for expressions of interest” centered on hydrogen use at airports.
Urban air mobility startup Archer is to go public in a deal that will raise up to $1.1 billion to fund commercialization of the company’s all-electric air taxi.
