Icon Aircraft is cutting jobs and Icon A5 production because of reduced demand and the loss of funding from its Chinese investors—a byproduct of the U.S.-China trade turmoil, Icon’s top executive says.
Participating Unmanned Aircraft Systems Service Providers connect to the flight information management system data exchange via open interfaces to provide the services drone operators need to meet regulatory and operational requirements.
Using a Skyfront multi-rotor drone, the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program team completed a 3.87-mi. inspection of Trans-Alaska Pipeline infrastructure without relying on a visual observer to monitor the aircraft.
The ADS-B compliance date is hard on the horizon. As of May, the number of turbine-powered U.S. business aircraft equipped with ADS-B rose to 77% of the fleet.
UPS said last month that it had applied to the FAA for a Part 135 air carrier certificate to operate the WakeMed delivery service, which uses the M2 quadcopter supplied by Matternet, of Mountain View, California.
Using computer vision and machine learning, the Zurich-based company is developing an autopilot for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles, helicopters, heavy drones and other aircraft.
Austria’s Schiebel Group has formed a new subsidiary to market its Camcopter S-100 unmanned helicopter in the U.S. and named industry veteran Gretchen West to lead the company.
Bombardier executives are “pleased with our progress” in transforming the company’s aerospace businesses into a single, business-aviation-focused unit, with both new-aircraft and aftermarket programs coming in “right on plan” through the first six months of the year, CEO Alain Bellemare said.
Charlie Johnson, the former president of Cessna Aircraft, serves as chief operating officer of Bye Aerospace, developer of electric training aircraft, the eFlyer 2 and eFlyer 4.
Southwest Airlines has established a multipath career program to train ab initio, collegiate, military and employee candidates to become first officers with the airline.
Senior officials from the U.S. FAA defended the agency’s certification of the Boeing 737 MAX as “fundamentally sound” during a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing July 31.
Bye Aerospace is to work with the UK’s Oxis Energy on development of a high energy-density battery that could power the company’s planned four-seat eFlyer 4 electric aircraft and future larger regional air taxi projects.
The Chinese government is suspending the rights of its citizens to make individual visits to Taiwan, restricting visitations to the island only via groups organized by travel agencies.
Aircraft manufacturers are taking a greater in-house role in the design, development and production of the executive seats that go into their jets and turboprops.
Equity Bank in Wichita, a subsidiary of Equity Bancshares, is establishing an aircraft financing division to finance new and used piston-powered aircraft, turboprops and jets.
Less than a year after bolting on smaller rival Firstmark, parent company BBA Aviation announced July 30 that it will sell component OEM and MRO provider Ontic to private equity investor CVC Capital Partners for $1.365 billion.
Germany’s DLR aerospace research agency is gearing up for autonomous flight trials of an unmanned gyrocopter to prove the tech could be used for autonomous freight hauling.
