Icon Aircraft recently shifted most of the final assembly of its Icon A5 aircraft to its composite component manufacturing facility in Tijuana, Mexico, as it begins to gain efficiencies from the processes, it says.
Alain Bellemare is stepping down as president and CEO of Bombardier, having overseen a radical reshaping of the Canadian company in a bid to restore its financial health.
Garmin said Mar. 11 that it has obtained EASA approval of an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) upgrade of Dornier 328 regional jet and turboprop aircraft.
Embraer is working with Stanford University and the U.S. Energy Department on development of multifunction structures that can store energy and carry loads, potentially reducing the weight of battery packs in electric aircraft.
China’s EHang is to begin non-passenger test flights of its EHang 216 autonomous air taxi with a customer in Norway after receiving an operational permit from that country’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAA).
Textron Aviation, WSU Tech and the Machinists Union announced a new two-year apprentice program to train toolmakers to help combat an upcoming shortage of skilled workers.
Startup vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Transcend Air is poised to start flight tests of a revised scaled version of its tiltwing Vy 400 intercity transport vehicle
An Arsenal of Democracy Flyover planned for May 8 in Washington DC will feature U.S. and Allied World War II aircraft commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Battery thermal-management company Kulr Technology Group has developed a design for lithium-ion batteries that prevents cell-to-cell propagation of a thermal runaway.
More than half of the fixed base operators in the U.S. and Canada—56%—recorded increased fuel sales in 2019 compared to a year ago, according to a survey by the Aviation Business Strategies Group, although there are “turbulent times ahead.”
Textron Aviation will harness wind energy to supply nearly all of its energy needs at its factories in Wichita and Independence, Kansas, under a 20-year wind energy agreement with Evergy, the company says.
