Gulfstream Aerospace has completed the first flight of its G800 ultralong-range business jet, in a move that officially launches the flight-test program.
Members of the IAMAW Lodge 712 at Bombardier ratified a new five-year bargaining agreement following nine months of negotiations and the rejection of two earlier contract offers.
Executives working to facilitate the wider use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in business aviation offered a measured assessment of the progress toward that goal June 22 during the NBAA White Plains Regional Forum in New York.
Tokyo-based startup Tetra Aviation has secured ¥450 million yen ($3.3 million) to continue development of its Mk-5 personal electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Volunteer builders will help construct a complete aircraft over seven days during EAA AirVenture in July while attendees will determine its final look.
Tamarack Aerospace says it has completed flight evaluation of its active winglets for a Beechcraft King Air 350, to provide endurance and payload, and high-and-hot takeoff abilities and extended loiter times.
With a design maximum takeoff weight of 1,400 kg (3,100 lb.), equivalent to a light general-aviation aircraft, the single-engine UAV made a 27-min. first flight on June 18.
Netherlands’ electric aircraft startup Venturi Aviation has closed a €3.4 million ($3.6 million) funding round and unveiled a new name, Maeve Aerospace.
United Aviate Academy, based near Phoenix and operated by United Airlines, has taken delivery of the first of 25 Cirrus SR Series TRAC20 high-performance aircraft for use in initial pilot training.
A German startup plans to demonstrate the weight-saving structural integration of a battery system into a wing as the first step toward developing a nine-passenger all-electric regional airliner with a range of 270 nm.
As expected, the UK Civil Aviation Authority is to adopt the European Union Safety Agency’s Special Conditions for VTOL as the basis for UK certification of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Textron Aviation has added its second Beechcraft Denali test aircraft to the Denali’s flight test program following the aircraft’s two-hour first flight.
Sceye’s high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) airship recently reached the stratosphere and demonstrated the ability “to stay over an area of operation and maintain a constant float altitude.”
Avfuel Technology Initiatives Corp., a division of Avfuel, has made a multimillion dollar investment in Alder Fuels, which converts biomass, such as regenerative grasses and forest and agricultural residues into sustainable, low-carbon crude oil for aviation.
The deal, valued by manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles as potentially in excess of $600 million, gives Air Nostrum the option of receiving up to 10 of the 100-seat aircraft.
