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By Victoria Moores
Luxembourg startup FlyLux Airlines is planning to become active in wet-lease, charter and cargo flying, operating Airbus A320neo-family aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation has acquired Mistequay Group and its facilities in Saginaw, Michigan and Monroe, Washington, a supplier of precision components for aerospace and defense manufacturers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
SkyDrive and the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau have agreed to the type certification basis for the Tokyo-based startup’s SD-05 electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is to cooperate with Kawasaki Heavy Industries on the development of core technologies for hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Operating a regional airport in Britain in the early 2020s appears to be an exercise in balancing risks against opportunities, ambition against pragmatism.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Graham Warwick
UK startup Vertical Aerospace has pushed back certification and first deliveries of its VX4 air taxi to 2025, from 2024, as it prepares to begin flight tests of its full-scale demonstrator this summer.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The first flights of an all-electric aircraft designed and built in the UK have been accomplished under a project led by Cranfield University as part of the UK government-supported Future Flight Challenge.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Volare Aviation may be highlighting its new dedicated helicopter MRO/management facility, but the story of the company’s current resurgence is about more than any one product or service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Electric propulsion startup MagniX is teaming with flight test specialists AeroTEC and Canadian operator Air Tindi to convert a De Havilland Canada Dash 7 into a testbed for NASA’s Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration project.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
UK startup Vertical Aerospace has pushed back certification and first deliveries of its VX4 air taxi to 2025, from 2024, as it prepares to begin flight tests of its full-scale demonstrator in summer 2022.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Textron’s purchase of Pipistrel is the “perfect” fit for Textron’s eAviation business segment, Textron’s top official told analysts April 28.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Embraer reaffirmed its full-year revenue and delivery targets for 2022 despite a sharp deceleration in commercial and executive jet deliveries in the first quarter (Q1).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Despite the Russia-Ukraine war and volatility in the stock market, business aircraft activity at Textron Aviation has remained strong during the first quarter of 2022, company officials say.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
EasyJet is continuing to lend its support to efforts to develop technology for zero-emission commercial aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
U.S. air medical transport company Air Methods has partnered with startup Skyryse to retrofit more than 400 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft with full-authority fly-by-wire flight controls to improve safety.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Beyond developing and producing an air vehicle that meets civil aviation authority certification standards, advanced air mobility companies also must certify how the aircraft will be serviced and maintained, and their flight operations also must be certified.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Aircraft Industries, the manufacturer of the Let family of turboprop regional aircraft, is now back in Czech hands after being acquired from its Russian owners.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft lessor LCI has placed a firm order for 50 Beta Technologies Alia-250 electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles with an option for another 75.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Austria’s Diamond Aircraft has selected Safran’s EngineUs motor to power its eDA40 electric training aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace’s order backlog in the first quarter (Q1) grew for the fifth consecutive quarter from continued strong demand for its products—it’s highest backlog in more than a decade, company officials said April 27.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
First delivery of Gulfstream’s new G700 large business jet may slip because of new and increasingly rigorous FAA certification requirements impacting the flight test process, company officials told analysts and investors April 27.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
With modification of the Cessna 172 Skyhawk and 208 Caravan to autonomous operation already under its belt, Reliable Robotics has received an Air Force Research Laboratory contract to demonstrate autonomous capabilities on U.S. Air Force aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Design changes and component supply issues have pushed back the first flight of the certification prototype for Harbour Air Seaplanes’ conversion of the de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver to electric propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
At first sight, drone delivery and vertiport development would appear only tangentially related.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
VoltAero’s Cassio 1 hybrid-electric testbed aircraft is anticipated to surpass 10,000 km of flight en route to the AERO Friedrichshafen general aviation trade show in Germany.
Advanced Air Mobility