Aircraft & Propulsion

Production targets for Kodiak aircraft are expected to rise to 25 in 2024, up from 18 in 2023, from strong customer demand.

The bench is a flight simulator built to the fidelity required for certification testing of both hardware and software that will then go to the aircraft.

This further paves the way for first customer deliveries and entry into service to commence, the company says.

The first customer deliveries will begin in a week, officials say.

Listen in as Aviation Week speaks with JSX CEO Alex Wilcox, whose company recently announced its plans to purchase more than 300 hybrid-electric aircraft.

The Prosperity air taxi will be used for urban air traffic demonstration flights conducted in preparation for the Osaka World Expo in 2025.

Bombardier has added its Challenger 650 business jet to the publication of its Environmental Product Declaration (EPD), which can be publicly accessed.

According to the EBACE website, 182 exhibitors of all sizes are registered for the show.

The April 8 total solar eclipse will be the last visible from the contiguous U.S. until 2044.

Founder of air ambulance provider Global Jetcare, Bart Gray, plus three pilots and an observer, took to the skies in a Learjet 36A at 11:49 p.m. CDT on April 3.

Thales has completed the acquisition of Cobham Aerospace Communications, thus obtaining crucial technology in secure broadband data links.

Local certification of the new Russian-built Il-114-300 is now planned for the end of 2025, with first delivery scheduled for 2026.

Flight tests of the Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine for the ultra-long-range Dassault Falcon 10X business jet have begun following delivery of the company’s Boeing 747-200 flying testbed fitted with the test engine to its Tucson facility in Arizona.

The event has grown from a small fly-in for sport aviation enthusiasts in 1974 to Florida’s largest annual convention.

Steady growth in Embraer’s Services and Support business (ESS) is poised to accelerate as a new engine overhaul joint venture kicks off.

Hybrid-electric aircraft developer VoltAero is preparing to test a more powerful piston engine from Kawasaki.

While French innovators are making gradual progress in electric, hybrid-electric and hydrogen propulsion, they are looking for critical funding.

U.S. business aviation faces a huge fuel tax increase, new audits and a longer aircraft depreciation schedule. NBAA's Ed Bolen joins to discuss industry's response.

Dassault's first business jet, the Falcon 20, helped launch the Pan Am executive jet division and Federal Express.

In the three years since Volato formed in early 2021, the company’s fleet has grown from three Honda Aircraft HondaJets to 24 at the end of 2023.

Bombardier said it is working with its supplier to resolve a shortage of replacement tail deicing boots affecting Learjets.

High interest rates and supply chain travails could eventually slow growth in business jet market, Bloomberg Intelligence said in a new report.

Bombardier flew out the last Global 7500 to be manufactured at its Toronto Downsview facility on March 23.

Honeywell expects to more than double the fleet of HTF7000 engines over the next decade as it seeks to develop a next-generation successor for the 2030s.

Bombardier’s ultra-long range Global 7500 has now set more than 30 city-pair speed records with two new record flights on Feb. 28 and March 6.