Joby Aviation has formally added a second preproduction prototype to the test program for its S4 tiltprop electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Michigan and Ontario officials have unveiled a cross-border research study of commercial drones to explore whether small unmanned aircraft can be flown beyond line of sight and used for just-in-time delivery, medical transport or other small-scale deployments.
Airbus has delivered the first ACJ TwoTwenty ultra-large business jet to Comlux, which will outfit the aircraft with a VVIP cabin for its launch customer, Dubai-based hotel operator Five.
The National Business Aviation Association and the Shanghai Airport Authority have postponed the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition that was scheduled to take place in April.
The aircraft, which is designed to evaluate the public acceptability of low-boom supersonic flight over land, completed assembly last year in Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works and was shipped to Texas for structural tests in late December.
After playing out through most of 2020 and 2021 for the electric vertical takeoff and landing industry, the process of assembling memorandums of understanding, letters of intent and other expressions of interest to bolster fundraising drives is underway in other parts of the evolving advanced air mobility market.
New Zealand startup Kea Aerospace has conducted a 14 hr. 3 min. test flight of a subscale prototype as it continues development of a large, solar-powered unmanned aircraft capable of remaining aloft in the stratosphere for months.
Sustainable aviation and advanced air mobility are the focus of the fifth round of research projects selected under NASA’s University Leadership Initiative.
With sustainability a key focus for the business aviation industry, six entities took part in a pilot scheme during the second half of 2021 intended to create a new sector-wide-applicable standards and training system.
In the first such move by a leader in the advanced air mobility market, Joby Aviation has acquired Austrian radar designer Inras to prepare for more complex, and eventually autonomous, operations of its electric urban air taxi.
Private aviation received a boost after restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown were lifted, with business aviation flight activity up 45% year over year and increases in the sale of pre-owned aircraft leading to record-low inventory.
Jet Linx, a provider of aircraft management, joint ownership and jet card services, has resumed its executive jet card sales on a limited basis, the Omaha-based private aviation provider announced.
