UK rotorcraft startup Hill Helicopters claims to be outselling its competitors and capturing a sizable share of the single-engine light helicopter general aviation market.
As ZeroAvia prepares to fly its modified Dornier 228 hydrogen-electric propulsion system testbed, details of the mobile refueling system that will support flight testing are emerging.
Denmark’s government has set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, potentially through a combination of sustainable aviation fuel and electric and hydrogen propulsion.
UK startup Electric Aircraft Group and the University of Nottingham plan to establish a joint venture to develop megawatt-class electric propulsion systems.
Figeac Aero, a supplier of large metal components, is pressing on with negotiations to increase its capital thanks to aerospace investment group Tikehau Ace Capital.
Increases in business jet production are expected to be muted in 2022, with manufacturers focusing on growth in order backlogs and pricing over volume, predicts Seth Seifman, executive director with J.P. Morgan.
McCauley Propeller Systems has completed full-scale and model-scale wind tunnel testing of its new C1106 propeller for Textron Aviation’s new Beechcraft Denali single-engine turboprop.
The merger values the electric air taxi developer at $2.4 billion, a price backed up by the largest conditional orderbook in the advanced air mobility market.
The Gulfstream Aerospace flight test program for the new G700 is progressing well, with the majority of test flights using sustainable aviation fuel, the company reports.
The energy requirements of future aircraft must be reduced by at least half by 2050 if aviation is to achieve the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century, according to a new aviation strategy adopted by German national aviation research agency DLR.
Europe is expanding its technology base for hydrogen propulsion as the region’s industry pushes to field zero-emissions commercial aircraft by the mid-2030s.
United Launch Alliance, based in Centennial, Colorado, has selected Wichita-based Maynard to supply components for the Atlas V rocket following a November meeting with potential Wichita suppliers.
In Vancouver, British Columbia, Harbour Air Seaplanes has begun modifying a second de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver to electric propulsion and will begin certification flight testing in 2022.
The number of used business jets for sale in December dropped 54% when compared to a year ago and declined 9% compared to November figures, according to a report by Jefferies.
Archer has flown its Maker technology demonstrator, joining other leaders in the electric vertical takeoff and landing industry in flying a vehicle similar in scale to its planned urban air taxi.
Completion of Vertical Aerospace’s going-public merger with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition on Dec. 16 took the total announced funding raised in 2021 by the nascent advanced air mobility industry to more than $5 billion.
Counter-drone systems specialist Dedrone has landed $30.5 million in Series C venture capital, the company announced Dec. 17, and is working to be able to detect, identify and track more than 200 different UAS.
The Fargo Jet Center has purchased two of the last Bombardier Learjet 75 Liberty light jets to come off the Wichita production line, for modification as air-medical aircraft, ending an era of the Learjet that began with the first delivery in 1964.
Bristow's partnership with California-based Overair covers the potential purchase of 20-50 of the startup’s Butterfly quad-tiltrotor platforms and collaboration on commercialization of the platform.
