Piper Aircraft has received type certification for its M700 Fury six-seat single-engine turboprop from safety agencies in Europe, Brazil and Australia.
Honda Aircraft is equipping its HondaJet Elite II very light jet with an autothrottle system to automate the controls governing speed and thrust in flight.
AERODATA, Germany has EASA STC to install its GPS anti-jamming and anti-spoofing solution for integration into Garmin G5000 avionics on Cessna Citation Latitude business jets; it plans to add additional platforms in future.
HENSOLDT announced first flight of PEGASUS airborne surveillance aircraft (Global 6000), the first of three for Germany; following flight tests by BOMBARDIER, LUFTHANSA TECHNIK was install Kalætron Integral SIGINT system in Hamburg.
TEXTRON AVIATION earned $128m on $1.34b revenues in 3Q24 vs $160m on $1.34b in 3Q23; it has $7.6b backlog. It delivered 41 jets/25 turboprops vs 39 jets/38 turboprops a year ago. BELL delivered 44 commercial helicopters vs 23.
Production is beginning to ramp up at Textron Aviation after a month-long strike by the Machinists union—a strike that impacted the Q3 financial results.
The FAA on Oct. 22 announced the release of a regulation that creates the operating and pilot training basis for a new category of powered-lift aircraft.
WHEELS UP announced plan to purchase 17 Phenom 300/300Es from Grandview Aviation, acquire Challenger 300/350s on open market and sell its 13 Citation Xs to third party, consolidating fleet types. It also contracted GOGO to supply Galileo HDX inflight Wi-Fi and secured financing commitment from BANK OF AMERICA with credit support from DELTA.
GENERAL DYNAMICS AEROSPACE earned $305m on $2.5b sales in 3Q24 vs $268m on $2b in 3Q23; book-to-bill ratio was 1.0 vs 1.4 a year ago. GULFSTREAM delivered 28 business jets in 3Q23/89 in 1Q-3Q24 vs 27 in 3Q23/72 in 1Q-3Q23.
