Fractional ownership provider Airshare, based in Lenexa, Kansas, has purchased three Challenger 350 super midsize jets from Bombardier with an option for 17 more over the next few years, doubling the size of its fleet.
Textron will not immediately enter the urban air mobility market, despite its “enormous amount of technological capability,” as the battery technology has not advanced enough to support it, Textron’s top executive says.
Tim Conver, who took over the then-spunky UAV pioneer AeroVironment in the early 1990s, will retire as chairman at the company’s 2021 annual shareholder meeting.
Startup Aergility is working with an unidentified strategic partner to develop a vertical-takeoff unmanned cargo aircraft using its “managed autorotation” technology to increase range and payload.
Lift Aircraft has completed its first six production Hexa single-person multicopters, including an aircraft delivered to the U.S. Air Force for flight testing.
The official start of perhaps the key driver behind the U.S. airport system’s success can be traced to May 13, 1946—the day President Harry S. Truman signed the Federal Airport Act into law.
As it seeks strategic investors to set up operations in Canada, Jaunt Air Mobility has added to the list of suppliers working on the startup’s Journey electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
Collins Aerospace has been selected by Lockheed Martin to provide avionics for NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft and by Dassault Aviation as a supplier on the new Falcon 10X ultra-long-range business jet, the company said in a media presentation on May 11.
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Several industry players have voiced disappointment with the UK’s air travel reopening, labeling it as over-cautious, with just 12 countries being given “green list” status.
British parcel carrier Royal Mail is to fly uncrewed mail flights between the UK mainland and the Scilly Isles and perform interisland deliveries with a vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft system to test technologies that could better link remote communities.
