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By Garrett Reim
Electric short takeoff and landing aircraft developer Electra believes a 500-600 kW turbogenerator will allow its in-development nine-passenger aircraft to fly 30% more fuel efficiently that a similar-sized aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Europe’s Sesar 3 Joint Undertaking public-private partnership for air traffic management research has awarded grants for two projects for operational demonstrations that support the Digital European Sky vision to modernize the region’s aviation infrastructure.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A collaboration between startups Otto Aviation and ZeroAvia could lead to one of the first clean-sheet aircraft with hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Aluminum suppliers complain they too often see valuable material being treated in a way that prevents it from being recycled.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Guardian Agriculture, a U.S. startup developing an autonomous crop protection aircraft, has secured a multimillion-dollar partnership with Wilbur-Ellis, a manufacturer of agriculture products and chemicals.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Australian regional airline Skytrans has partnered with local startup Stralis Aircraft to convert a 19-seat Beech 1900D turboprop to hydrogen-electric propulsion for flight trials in 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s Duofo Group has acquired Italian ultralight helicopter manufacturer Fama Helicopters with the goal of expanding into uncrewed aircraft and electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Korea Aerospace Industries is to build a subscale model of a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi for flight testing by 2024 as a precursor of a full-size vehicle that would enable the company to participate in the Seoul government’s push to commercialize urban air mobility beginning in 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Saab plans to deliver two of the Bombardier Global 6000-derived surveillance systems in 2027 to to the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration, the company says.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
Bombardier has quadrupled the footprints of its Singapore Service Center, making it the largest OEM business aviation maintenance facility in the Asia-Pacific region.
Maintenance & Training

By Bill Carey
Fuel refiner Neste and Victor, an on-demand private-jet charter company, have partnered to make Neste MY sustainable aviation fuel available for all Fly Victor bookings.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Air Plains Services has designed an advanced instrument panel kit—the 172XPa—for Cessna 172 owners who either are planning to install or have completed installations of the company’s 180-hp engine upgrades.
Flight Deck

Daher received FAA certification June 24 for the TBM 960 turboprop, unveiled in April at Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The pros and cons of the different fuel-cell types should be considered carefully for hydrogen-powered aircraft, as well as liquid-hydrogen production sites, says Bauhaus Luftfahrt, a Munich-based aviation science and technology think-tank.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Orloff
Complete Aircraft Group (CAG), an aviation services business, has finalized the acquisition of Aerocare Aviation Services (AAS), a Part 145 maintenance, repair and overhaul provider.
Maintenance & Training

By Sean Broderick, Ben Goldstein
The FAA is kicking off consideration of a Republic Airways request to provide an exemption for graduates of a tailored program in its training academy that would allow them to qualify as airline pilots with 750 hr. of flight experience.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Yet many of those companies are small- and medium-size businesses and finding the time and money is a serious hurdle for them, industry observers warn.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Industry is welcoming creation of a bipartisan Congressional Advanced Air Mobility Caucus. National Business Aviation Association President and CEO Ed
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Third parties will find it harder to identify and track Elon Musk’s G650 and other private jets under a revised privacy program the FAA manages now but plans to outsource to a vendor.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Beta Technologies has flown its Alia electric aircraft between two Amazon Air hubs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Paving the way for certification of its 100-kW electric propulsion system for general-aviation aircraft, Swiss startup H55 has received its design organization approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Members of the IAMAW Lodge 712 at Bombardier ratified a new five-year bargaining agreement following nine months of negotiations and the rejection of two earlier contract offers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Executives working to facilitate the wider use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in business aviation offered a measured assessment of the progress toward that goal June 22 during the NBAA White Plains Regional Forum in New York.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
Oriens Aviation has become an authorized service center for Cirrus’s SR2X family of aircraft, giving the Duluth, Minnesota -headquartered airframer its first MRO location in the south-east of the UK.
Maintenance & Training

By Ben Goldstein
The outlook for U.S. small community air service is grimmer than any time in recent memory, and the situation will likely get worse before it stabilizes.
Airlines & Lessors