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By Michael Bruno
Executives and analysts expect the proposed merger of Raytheon and United Technologies will pass antitrust muster, and it is already winning over investors and government customers.
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By Bill Carey
The FAA on June 10 said it was investigating the cause of a satellite navigation system anomaly on Bombardier CRJ and other jets that forced several U.S. airlines to cancel flights.
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By Michael Bruno
Canada’s Héroux-Devtek, the third-largest landing gear manufacturer worldwide, said on June 10 it bought nearby Alta Precision, a privately-owned manufacturer of high-precision landing gear components, in a $23 million deal.
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By Graham Warwick
German startup Volocopter says its multicopter eVTOL air taxi can offer the majority of inner city and airport shuttle services needed in more than 90% of its Top 100 target cities.
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By Michael Bruno
An FAA and EASA grounding of all Cessna Citation Model 525, 525A and 525B bizjets is driving Atlas active winglets provider Tamarack Aerospace into bankruptcy.
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By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Ampaire has begun flying a testbed for its electric propulsion conversion for regional aircraft.
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The House Appropriations Committee has OK'd legislation granting $17.7 billion to the FAA in fiscal 2020, advancing the bill to the full chamber.
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By Graham Warwick
Uber has partnered with on-demand helicopter charter operator Heliflite to launch Uber Copter.
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By Michael Bruno
The U.S. aerospace and defense sector was responsible for more than 2.56 million jobs in 2018, a 5.5% gain over 2017, the Aerospace Industries Association says.
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By Bill Carey
After a nearly year-long hiatus, the FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) met June 6 with a new chairman and a tasking from the agency to marshal industry behind a coming requirement that drones be capable of being identified in flight.
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By Molly McMillin
Business aircraft manufacturers are keeping a close watch on U.S.-Mexico trade talks.
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By Molly McMillin
The mood seems to have shifted in the bizav market, with a decline in optimism, according to a recent global survey of owners and operators by JetNet iQ.
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By Michael Bruno
Honeywell International formally rolled out its big data crunching Forge software on June 6, targeting airlines, manufacturers interested in digital twins and anyone wanting better cybersecurity.
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) moved to further limit non-family travel to Cuba as part of an administration-wide effort to assert greater pressure on the country over its human rights record and support for the regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.
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By Molly McMillin
Cirrus Aircraft has a new CEO, Zean Nielsen, as Dale Klapmeier moves into a senior advisory role with the company he co-founded, effective immediately.
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By Bill Carey
Online shopping giant Amazon on June 5 revealed its latest design for a delivery drone.
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By Bill Carey
The commercial drone industry has graduated from pilot projects and is poised for rapid growth, the new chairman of the FAA’s Drone Advisory Committee says.
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By Bradley Perrett
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is negotiating with Bombardier for an undisclosed transaction involving the CRJ regional jet, both companies said.
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By Bill Carey
The European Aviation Safety Agency has certified Aireon to provide surveillance services in support of aircraft separations, the first such OK, the company said.
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By Mark Carreau
World View Enterprises has completed its longest developmental flight of the Stratollite high-altitude balloon.
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By Michael Bruno
The marketplace for urban air mobility for the masses is not expected to take off for several more years, but once it does it could become a multi-billion-dollar enterprise that upends traditional helicopter manufacturing, suggest new consultant studies on electrically powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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By Molly McMillin
A new forecast predicts 11,765 transactions for used business aircraft valued at $61 billion will take place over the next five years and 3,444 new deliveries valued at $90.5 billion, according to Jetcraft, a business aircraft sales and acquisitions firm.
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By Bill Carey
Honeywell on June 3 unveiled a compact flight-control computer designed to drive electric actuators and dynamically adjust flight surfaces and motors of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles.
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By Bill Carey
The FAA is working with drone service providers to develop data use standards by this summer that represent a step toward having third parties provide remote identification (ID) services for small unmanned aircraft.
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By Molly McMillin
Wheels Up, a membership-based private aviation company, has acquired wholesale light jet charter operator Travel Management Co., which operates a fleet of 26 Hawker 400XP aircraft.
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