The business aviation industry is on track to meet the sustainability goals it set for 2050, but having access to and using sustainable aviation fuels will be one of the linchpins required to keep it in on track.
Pilots aged 70 and older are as safe and proficient as younger ones, but their insurance companies are dropping and canceling their policies or raising their premiums, according to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
Vertical says it remains on track to start flight tests in early 2022 as it targets certification for the VA-X4 in 2024 and entry-into-service in 2025.
Private-aviation services companies Jet Access and Eagle Creek Aviation plan to merge, a combination they said on Nov. 23 will create the 12th largest Part 135 charter operator in the U.S.
German engine manufacturer RED Aircraft GmbH announced the first flight of an Air Tractor 301 agricultural airplane retrofitted with its RED AO3 piston engine.
Otto Aviation has completed the first phase of testing of its unconventional Celera 500L and says flights of the full-scale aerodynamic prototype demonstrated the aircraft’s low fuel consumption.
Textron Aviation’s new single-engine turboprop Beechcraft Denali, previously called the Cessna Denali, completed its first flight on the morning of Nov. 23, according to FlightAware and a Wichita observer who watched it land back at the company’s Wichita facility.
In South Korea Volocopter and Kakao Mobility are to study the feasibility of operating UAM services, a technology that Seoul wants to see commercialized by 2025.
Flight services provider DroneUp and Walmart have agreed to launch on-demand package deliveries by drone at three Walmart stores in northwest Arkansas, the companies announced Nov. 22.
Dubai has launched a program to enable drone transportation by creating an infrastructure to test unmanned aircraft in designated areas and develop legislation to enable their implementation.
The 10 years that separate the first hover flights of the Volocopter VC1 and eMagic Aircraft’s eMagic One illustrate the advances made in a decade by electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing technology.
Chinese electric vertical takeoff and landing startup AutoFlight has identified European technology investor Lukasz Gadowski as the source of the $100 million Series A investment announced in September.
Solar-powered aircraft developer Skydweller Aero has partnered with Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica to explore the use of its long-endurance unmanned aircraft to expand cellular coverage.
Flytrex’s delivery system uses a multicopter drone that flies autonomously beyond line of sight and hovers to safely lower the package by wire to the customer in the ground.
Business and general aviation deliveries rose in the third quarter of 2021 to 640, up from 634 a year ago and higher than 2019 third-quarter deliveries of 604 aircraft, according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association.
