Spirit AeroSystems’ largest union says it has been notified that negotiations between the company and Onex and Advanced Integration Technology for the purchase of its fabrication and machining division were ending.
Avicopter had a very good opening day at the recent China Helicopter Exposition, booking orders for 18 rotorcraft and announcing a launch customer for its prestigious AC352 super medium size transport.
There is no shortage of inventive ideas in the commercial UAV sector, but many of them go well beyond what civil aviation regulators are expected to allow for the foreseeable future.
Flight testing continues on Enstrom Helicopter Corp.’s new TH180 aircraft, designed for ab-initio flight training and the light commercial and private owner markets, the company says.
Declines in demand at its two largest airframe business units, Haeco Xaimen and Haeco Americas, contributed to an overall 1.8% year-over-year decline in total airframe worker-hour services sold through the first six months of the year, and those markets are not expected to rebound before 2016, Haeco Ltd., executives say.
China’s helicopter market achieved sales increases of 20% per year between 2009-13, and last year grew by 30%, says Chris Jaran, Bell Helicopter Vice President for China. But this year the growth won’t be the same.
Against a background of growing concern over “rogue” UAVs near airports and in other sensitive areas, NASA has conducted a dress rehearsal for the upcoming demonstration of the first version of an airspace system designed to enable safe UAV operations at low altitudes.
StandardAero has signed an agreement with SmartSky Networks to certify and install SmartSky’s high-speed wireless Internet system in a variety of business aircraft.
GIV final crash analysis blames pilots for routinely ignoring checklist procedures and FAA for not verifying a key safety system during certification of the aircraft.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The business jet market is expected to reach nearly $21.07 billion this year, according to London-based Visiongain. Demand for business jets is growing because of a strengthening global economy and a rise in high net worth individuals. Several major business jet manufacturers offer a diverse portfolio of aircraft types with a broad range of performance and flight mission capabilities, Visiongain said.
Textron Aviation could announce two new aircraft in the large business jet segment during the Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in November, am analyst wrote in a memo to investors on Sept. 9. Plus, the National Business Aviation Association says it is ready to follow up on a recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board following a fatal Gulfstream IV runway overrun accident in May 2014.
Selex-ES has developed a system designed to detect, track and if necessary disable consumer-type UAVs, protecting civilian targets such as public events, airports and other infrastructure targets from illegal or threatening activity.
Gulfstream Aerospace has announced that an avionics software upgrade resulting in improved aircraft performance is now available for the Gulfstream G280.
Fewer maintenance inspections are occurring post-severe turbulence encounters, thanks to new software that improves upon traditional qualitative pilot reports.
The National Business Aviation Association says it is ready to follow up on a recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board following a fatal runway overrun accident last year.
