Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Sikorsky has pushed back certification and market entry of its S-92A+ upgrade two years to 2025 and shelved plans for a future S-92B.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The new owners of MD Helicopters are envisioning raising production to 50 helicopters a year by 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters is expanding its use of simulation, enabling the company’s engineers to iterate faster and reduce the cost of development.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters is exploring the use of big data collected from operators of its helicopters to better understand its fleets.
Connected Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Honda pursues SAF; Lithium-air battery; Fly-by-wire for GA; SAF from camelina.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
MD Helicopters says it has ended a seven-year-long dispute with parts manufacturer Aerometals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Dassault Aviation is putting the Falcon 6X’s entry into service as its main priorities, targeting the timeline of summer 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
Two activists from the climate-action group Fossil Free London made interventions from the conference floor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
French manufacturer Daher has joined the United Aerial Firefighters Association (UAFA), becoming the first airframer member of the organization.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Fast-growing Wheels Up, a private aviation provider, is restructuring and eliminating jobs to shave $30 million a year in costs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The converted aircraft lifted off at 8:41 a.m. Pacific time and landed back after a 15-min. flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Pilatus delivered 133 aircraft in 2022, according to the OEM’s annual report for 2022 published March 2.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
General Electric plans to invest $355 million in existing aerospace-related sites in 2023 after conducting so-called lean process improvement reviews.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By William Garvey
Despite helping deliver a $3.8 billion surplus and supporting new business growth, South Carolina’s two ancient turboprops are “luxuries,” some say.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Avincis was previously the name of a wider group of helicopter operating companies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
An historic “fly-in” hotel, air strip and acreage in the town of Beaumont, Kansas, located in the heart of the Flint Hills, is up for sale.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
The Tenth Circuit overturned a $45 million win by the former Spirit Aero CEO in an earlier federal district case, returning the dispute to the district level.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Bill Carey
Gulfstream commemorated the recent world tour of its sleek new G700 ultra-long-range business jet Feb. 27.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Orloff
Bestfly has partnered with Krimson Aviation, a flight support, charter and aviation consultancy based in Ethiopia, to form BFK Aviation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Transport Canada has approved the Saab 2000 for passenger operations, nearly 30 years after the 50-seat twin turboprop completed its first flight.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris, Garrett Reim
Eviation is using masses of data from the first flight of its all-electric Alice commuter aircraft last year to inform the design of the production version.
Emerging Technologies

By Molly McMillin
The worldwide in-service fleet of single- and twin-engine helicopters is projected to grow from 21,588 in 2023 to 24,293 by the end of 2032.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Orloff
A variant of the MBB-BK117, twin-engine Airbus H145 was the final variant of the series marketed as the Eurocopter EC145, MBB-BK117 D2 and is limited to VFR ope
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
An oversupply of helicopters and what Safan Helicopter Engines chief Franck Saudo calls a “capacity overhang” has been largely eliminated, he says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Skyryse has reached a milestone in its plans to improve the safety of general aviation by equipping aircraft with a highly automated flight control system.
Aircraft & Propulsion