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Avic has begun assembling the first airframe in the MA700 turboprop airliner program, aiming at a first flight next year and certification in 2022 after further delays.
Boeing and Embraer on Oct. 3 formally acknowledged that they do not expect their commercial aircraft joint venture deal to close until “early 2020” after the European Commission indicated its competition review will extend into a Phase II.
Detecting rogue drones on or near airport property should be a shared responsibility of airports and federal governments, a high-level industry group focused on the threat of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has concluded.
The expansion by Flir Systems into unmanned aircraft services is rolling on as it acquires the intellectual property and certain operating assets of Aria Insights.
Safran Landing Systems is building a new $15.25 million test laboratory in France, called ExceLAB, to test capabilities for new systems, from prototypes to finished products, across a broad range of simulated operating conditions.
Rhett Ross, CEO and president of Continental Aerospace Technologies, an engine manufacturer based in Mobile, Alabama, plans to retire from the position he has held for 12 years.
Convincing more women to pursue careers as pilots would help ease a supply crunch that could soon threaten even the largest airlines in the U.S., two pilot-workforce experts said.
Whitcraft, a Connecticut-based manufacturer of highly-engineered precision formed, precision machined, and fabricated products for aerospace turbine engine OEMs and Tier I suppliers, said Oct. 1 it acquired Multax of Morton, Illinois, which has roots in programming the first multiple axis machines ever used.
UPS says its Flight Forward subsidiary has received the first FAA Part 135 Standard certification to use unmanned aircraft systems for package deliveries nationwide.
Alphabet company Wing is playing down Australian media criticism of noise from its drone delivery operations as it prepares to launch its latest commercial service in Logan, south of Brisbane in Queensland.
World View Enterprises Inc. has exceeded by more than two days its goal of a 30-day demo Stratollite balloon mission for sustained navigational stratospheric flight.
The long-awaited and now FAA-type certified super-midsize Citation Longitude is entering a crowded market niche, but its prospects appear bright because NetJets intends to buy up to 175 aircraft.
Thales and StandardAero have signed a long-term partnership agreement to certify and distribute Thales’ TopMax wearable head-up display (HUD) for business aviation aircraft, the companies announced Sept. 26.
