Aircraft & Propulsion

China’s Aerofugia has developed a mobile charging station to support its AE200 eVTOL air taxi at remote sites.

French aerospace group Daher has appointed Michel Denis, a seasoned executive with experience in other sectors, as its new CEO to succeed Didier Kayat.

The Helios Horizon stratospheric electric aircraft has flown powered by solid-state batteries, believed to be the first piloted flight using the fast-charging, energy-dense battery tech.

Beta Technologies invited journalists to fly aboard its Alia CX300 electric aircraft and witness a four-aircraft demo.

A Global 8000 flew from Bombardier’s headquarters in Montreal to Nice, France, in just over six hours, setting a speed record, the manufacturer said.

Growing demand for business jet maintenance in Asia is yielding increased work for ExecuJet MRO Services Malaysia.

NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built X-59 Quesst low-boom demonstrator conducted its first supersonic flight on June 5, reaching Mach 1.1 on an 81-min. mission.

Hybrid-electric regional aircraft developer Heart Aerospace has begun taxi tests of its full-scale piloted flight demonstrator, the X1.

A new fractional company is basing its business on the EPIC E1000 single-engine turboprop.

Existing infrastructure to support electric aircraft in the U.S. is limited and airports face challenges installing the foundations, a report says.

Airhart Aeronautics and Polish startup Draco Aircraft announced a collaboration on June 1.

As France’s CORAC research and technology program faces budgetary pressure, Daher is championing continued funding and associated collaboration.

The head of Honeywell Aerospace asserted the Tier 1 aerospace supplier and defense prime will no longer be handcuffed in its investments, supply chain management and acquisitions.

Honeywell Aerospace has opened up additional production capacity at its auxiliary power unit assembly line in Phoenix to meet growing airliner production rates.

Israeli startup AIR has selected Dynon Avionics to provide the avionics and flight displays for its portfolio of eVTOLs.

The Aviation Week Business Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast, which provides a detailed engine fleet projection for the next 10 years, reveals which engine types and associated OEMs will lead deliveries to Europe.

The June 2026 Program Profile features Textron Aviation's Model 560XL, which includes the Citation Excel, XLS, XLS+, XLS Gen2 and Ascend.

SOFWerx plans to assess the capabilities of uncrewed aircraft with hybrid-electric propulsion and channel wings for vertical takeoff and landing.

Bombardier CRJ program owner MHIRJ Aviation Group (MHIRJ) has opened an advanced design office in Munich headed by the former CTO of Maeve Aerospace.

GE Aerospace is moving toward flight tests of a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine system on a modified Saab 340B testbed.

Electra.aero completed the first urban demo of its EL2 Ultra Short demonstrator on May 28.

For any company, standing up on its own is daunting; for Honeywell Aerospace, the bar will be even higher.

Indian startup BluJ Aerospace is developing a family of electric and hydrogen-electric VTOL aircraft aimed first at cargo and logistics missions, with passenger service planned as a longer-term goal.

Dutch electric aircraft developer Maeve Aerospace has been declared bankrupt after failing to raise additional funding.

Draco Aircraft is looking to secure a third investor that should give it sufficient capital to launch a development and certification program of its Wilga PZL-104-based platform.