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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

By Graham Warwick
Zipline has become the fourth drone operator to receive an FAA Part 135 air carrier certificate to conduct commercial delivery operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Tokyo-based startup Tetra Aviation has secured ¥450 million yen ($3.3 million) to continue development of its Mk-5 personal electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Embraer has doubled its hangar space at the Sorocaba Service Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Honda Aircraft Co. has added a 25-year extension to its 15-year partnership with FlightSafety International, which provides training to HondaJet owners and operators.
Maintenance & Training

By Molly McMillin
Volunteer builders will help construct a complete aircraft over seven days during EAA AirVenture in July while attendees will determine its final look.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
Designing an electric airplane able to transport meaningful payloads to and from unprepared airfields ought to be challenge enough for any startup.
Aircraft & Propulsion