Aircraft & Propulsion

Serial airline entrepreneur and Breeze Airways founder David Neeleman is adding two Learjet 45 midsize business jets to Breeze's fleet for an important purpose.

Airbus Helicopters claims to have secured a 50% share of the medium twin-engine segment that has largely been dominated for years by Leonardo’s AW139.

Ground tests of a modified Passport business jet engine in hybrid-electric mode mark a key step toward development of a future single-aisle propulsion system.

Manufacturing of hardware has begun for Pratt & Whitney Canada’s long-planned hybrid-electric propulsion flight demonstrator, a heavily modified Dash 8-100.

Vertical Aerospace’s Valo electric air taxi made its U.S. debut on Jan. 22, with a non-flying, full-scale mock-up of its eVTOL aircraft displayed in New York.

The four projects aim to ready technologies for a hybrid-electric regional aircraft entering service in 2035, as part of the Clean Aviation public-private initiative.

Electra.aero has signed a predelivery payment agreement with Bristow Group, the first deposit-backed commitment to buy its EL9 Ultra Short aircraft.

The 23rd annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards will be held Jan. 23.

AEG Fuels announced a new agreement to provide Jet A and SAF at high-demand business aviation locations served by fixed-base operator Jet Aviation.

Daher is upgrading its TBM 900 small business aircraft and looking for more aerostructures and services work.

Beyond Aero has successfully tested a model of its BYA-1 hydrogen-electric business aircraft at the DNW wind tunnel in Marknesse, Netherlands.

Indonesia’s search and rescue agency (Basarnas) has confirmed it has located the wreckage of an ATR 42-500 aircraft that went missing on Jan. 17.

Turboprop manufacturer ATR has deployed specialists to help investigate an accident involving an ATR 42-500 in Indonesia.

In this final installment, business aviation leaders share their thoughts on where they would invest in business aviation in the future.

Public charter operator JSX has formally marked the introduction into service of its first ATR 42-600 turboprop.

In its sixth decade, Maule Air is working to get even more performance from its fabled STOL aircraft.

Daher introduced the TBM 980, a new variant of the turboprop single with full touchscreen Garmin G3000 avionics, during a ceremony here at its Tarbes factory.

Weather data company Meteomatics says it will make available data from its Meteodrones for the first time to the U.S. National Weather Service.

Ghana has placed an order for four new utility and VIP helicopters from Airbus.

Textron Aviation announced delivery and entry-into-service of its Cessna Citation M2 Gen2 light jet equipped with Garmin autothrottles.

Chinese academics are calling the government to take a more proactive role in SAF adoption, including embedding mandates in China’s next Five-Year Plan.

Talon Air, previously an affiliate of Vista Global, has been acquired by a private investment group in a transaction that closed Jan. 2, 2026, Talon Air says.

Differences between the business aviation markets in the U.S. and Europe are growing.

When Eve Air Mobility’s EVE-100 engineering demonstrator lifted briefly into a controlled hover for the first time on Dec. 19, the moment marked a long-anticipated milestone for the Embraer-backed startup.

Baykar is planning a new version of Piaggio’s P.180 Avanti and looking to ramp up production of the twin-turboprop transport aircraft.