Business Aviation

Erickson and Sikorsky have partnered to install Matrix autonomous technology onto the S-64F Aircrane and demonstrate autonomous firefighting capabilities.

Wichita-based aerostructures leader Spirit AeroSystems has fired its relatively new chief financial officer and another executive after it found a lack of accounting procedure compliance regarding recent unidentified liabilities.

Light helicopter manufacturer Enstrom is in talks with several unidentified eVTOL startup companies to potentially help them certify and produce the first new-generation urban air mobility vehicles.

MD Helicopters CEO Lynn Tilton has made restoring production of the company’s MD902 twin-engine light helicopter a priority after a nearly decade-long hiatus in production.

Despite the high-profile crash that killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant, the number of fatal U.S. helicopter accidents has decreased over the past two decades, but hit a plateau in 2018 and 2019.

Wheels Up and Delta Air Lines have closed on a transaction that combines the private aviation provider with Delta Private Jets.

South Florida business aviation operators and FBOs have spent weeks preparing for the mass influx and exit of aircraft and passengers who will be attending Super Bowl LIV on Feb. 2 in Miami.

Textron Aviation expects deliveries to remain flat in 2020, as the ramp-up in production of the Citation Longitude super midsize business jet is offset by a reduction in demand for legacy aircraft.

Bell has secured its first emergency medical services order for an instrument flight rules (IFR) certified Bell 407GXi.

Aircraft deliveries at Textron Aviation will be reduced in the first half of 2020 by the impact on composites manufacturing caused by the Dec. 27 explosion at the company’s Plant 3 facility in Wichita.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt has formally ordered the “temporary cessation” of nonemergency drone operations.

UPS on Jan. 29 said it will expand its drone delivery program to the University of California Health complex in San Diego.

Orders for Gulfstream business jets in 2019 were the highest in more than a decade and the second highest ever, buoyed by demand for its new models, parent company General Dynamics says.

Russian Helicopters’ new VRT500 co-axial single-engine light helicopter will use Thales FlytX avionics suite.

WHEELS UP and DELTA PRIVATE JETS completed previously announced business combination to form single private aviation company with >190 aircraft and >8

Sikorsky is moving ahead with plans to offer a radically revamped version of its S-92 heavylift helicopter.

Robinson Helicopter says development of alternate, more fuel-efficient propulsion systems, including potentially electric power, remains a primary goal for the company.

Bell is hoping that support from the Norwegian oil industry could help it secure a foothold in the North Sea offshore helicopter market for its new Model 525 super-medium helicopter.

TEXTRON AVIATION earned $134m on $1.7b revenues in 4Q19 vs $170m on $1.6b in 4Q18, and $449m on $5.2b revenues in 2019 vs $445m on $5b in 2018. It

GENERAL DYNAMICS AEROSPACE earned $480m on $2.9b sales in 4Q19 vs $382m on $2.7b in 4Q18, and $1.5b on $9.8b sales in 2019 vs $1.5b on $8.5b in 2018

Heavylift helicopter OEM Erickson has revealed plans to develop a new version of its S-64 Aircrane.

The market for Airbus Helicopters has been stable, Airbus officials say. But rather than growth, the market is for replacement helicopters.

NASA has ordered three Airbus H135 Signature helicopters to replace its current fleet of three Huey 2 aircraft.

William Garvey, BCA Editor-in-Chief, was inducted into the “Living Legends of Aviation” in Beverly Hills, California on January 16. Along with other

Aerospace suppliers are taking different approaches on whether to cut employees as they wrestle with the fallout of the Boeing 737 MAX production halt, with some already doing so while others announce they will not.