The Aircraft Electronics Association’s Second Quarter 2019 Avionics Market Report released Aug. 12 reported sales in the first half of 2019 in the amount of $1.5 billion, representing a 4.1% increase in total sales compared with 2018.
With volatility rocking the financial markets and warnings of the first economic downturn since the Great Recession growing, new reports from credit rating agencies are measuring how the aerospace and defense industries rank.
The entity that will be the rest of Embraer is on course to become a separate operational unit once Boeing takes over the Brazilian OEM’s commercial aircraft business by the end of the year, company leaders said Aug. 14.
The U.S. FAA has granted a team headed by the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) a waiver to fly small drones beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) of an operator using an onboard detect and avoid system.
Manufacturers of general aviation aircraft are having a mixed year, with increases in deliveries of business jets and piston-engine aircraft being offset by declines in turboprops and helicopters.
French air navigation service provider (ANSP) DSNA has joined a consortium of European ANSPs participating in the Iris satellite-based data link program, Inmarsat announced Aug. 14.
The Commercial Drone Alliance is calling on the FAA and the White House to speed the development of regulations allowing the commercial use of large unmanned aircraft systems.
Drone delivery system developer Flytrex and jet charter and management company Causey Aviation said they have received FAA approval to begin food deliveries by drone in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
The FAA has granted Textron Aviation permanent relief from fuel-tank requirements that have delayed certification of the Cessna Citation Longitude business jet.
Using experiments and digital simulations, Siemens’ eAircraft said it has proved the feasibility of a high power-density superconducting generator that could be used in a hybrid-electric propulsion system for future short-haul commercial aircraft.
As a multi-industrial manufacturer, Textron sells many transportation vehicles, from military helicopters to UAVs and even snowmobiles and recreational four-wheelers.
A new corporate review may indicate that Textron could be looking to become an aerospace and defense-focused company similar to other large rivals, according to analysts.
Monitoring data indicates that 70%-75% of European Union (EU)-registered large aircraft will comply with Europe’s automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipage deadline of June 2020, according to the agency charged with coordinating the effort.
Bombardier has announced that its unrivalled Global 7500 business jet has once again flown another mission in excess of 8,000 nautical miles, successfully connecting Sydney and Detroit in one non-stop flight, the longest city-pair in business aviation in history flown by a purpose-built aircraft.v
The end is near for Wesco Aircraft’s turnaround plan as the aerospace fasteners and machined parts provider announced Aug. 9 it has struck a deal to be acquired by new private equity investors for almost $2 billion.
Blackhawk Aerospace has earned a Supplemental Type Certificate from the FAA that it says will transform the Beechcraft King Air 300 into “the fastest King Air in the world.”
Delivery comes a month after the aircraft earned FAA type and production certification. The unnamed U.S. customer took delivery at the company’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia.
The four-seat, single-engine general aviation aircraft, under development by Shanghai-based Guanyi General Aviation, flew for the first time at a height of 3,000 m during its 50th test flight on Aug. 7.
