Nordic Aviation Capital’s (NAC) lenders have agreed to a debt standstill for the next six to 12 months, after 40% of the regional-aircraft lessor’s turnover was impacted by COVID-19.
Self-piloted air taxis have taken off with the first passenger-carrying public flights by the EHang 216 autonomous air vehicle on aerial sightseeing trips in the coastal city of Yantai, China.
Textron Aviation is inviting customers, aviation enthusiasts and employees to cast their votes for new paint schemes for next year’s high-wing Cessna piston aircraft, including the Cessna Skyhawk, Skylane and Turbo Stationair HD.
U.S. small drone manufacturer Skydio said it has raised $100 million in venture capital, which the company will use to accelerate product development and expand into the commercial and public-sector markets.
ANA Holdings, parent company of All Nippon Airways, is cooperating with Japanese startup Aeronext on the development of delivery drones with the goal of beginning commercial operations in 2022-23.
Bye Aerospace is to begin work on the first production-conforming prototype of its eFlyer 2 electric training aircraft after closing $10 million in strategic and venture financing.
Drone delivery company Volansi is to partner with U.S. Special Operations Command to demonstrate its Voly M20 long-range cargo unmanned aircraft under a small business contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force.
Australian air taxi startup AMSL Aero is to build a flight-test center at Narromine in New South Wales thanks to an A$950,000 ($660,000) grant from the state government. AMSL is developing the Vertiia, a two-passenger tandem tilt-wing electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
Dassault Aviation is making steady progress toward an early 2021 planned first flight for its latest and roomiest aircraft, the Falcon 6X, despite the upheaval caused by the coronavirus epidemic.
The FAA has joined NASA in using the phrase Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to describe a broader vision for what until recently has been called urban air mobility (UAM).
Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 6X large, long-range business jet remains on schedule, despite challenges from the novel coronavirus pandemic, with first flight planned for early 2021, the company says.
The COVID-19 pandemic that forced the National Business Aviation Association to cancel its annual 2020 Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition is the latest in a series of event terminations this year for the organization that potentially involve millions of dollars in lost revenue.
In a change of senior leadership at Duncan Aviation, Jeff Lake, formerly Duncan Aviation’s chief operating officer at its Lincoln, Nebraska, facility, has assumed the role of president from Aaron Hilkemann, now Duncan’s part-time CEO and chairman of Duncan Aviation’s board of advisors.
Flying Colours Corp. has signed a distributor agreement with Aviation Clean Air, based in Savannah, Georgia, to act as an installation facility for ACA Needle Point Bi-Polar Ionization Components in North America.
VisionSafe Corp. announced that EVAS (Emergency Vision Assurance System) is now available on the Legacy 600 and Legacy 650 as a supplemental type certificate and on the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 as loose equipment.
