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By Graham Warwick
Slovakian startup AeroMobil is briefing potential investors on its plans to set up the first door-to-door aerial ridesharing service in the U.S. using a four-seat drive/fly vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the continuing sanctions enacted in response are causing uncertainty across the business-aviation sector, several speakers said during a discussion held as part of the British Business and General Aviation Association’s (BBGA) conference on March 10.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation has secured FAA certification for its new Cessna SkyCourier twin-engine, high-wing, large utility turboprop, paving the way for the first delivery to launch customer FedEx Express.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
A city police department that was an early adopter of using drones for law enforcement purposes in the U.S. recently surpassed 10,000 missions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Two U.S. Air Force pilots have become the first to conduct crewed test flights of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft under the service’s Agility Prime program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
Gulfstream held a belated opening event for its new European maintenance center March 10, and the company celebrated with a record-setting flight by its latest aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
In the increasingly mobile world of work of the 21st century it is rare to find people who have spent an entire career within a single firm. Mark
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has developed a cost-sharing model with customers to develop upgrades for rotary-wing platforms now out of production.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
The zero-emission propulsion startup Hydrogen is to locate manufacturing and distribution of its modular hydrogen capsules and assembly of regional-aircraft powertrain retrofit kits at the New Mexico facility.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
With a focus on stabilizing its supply chain through the rest of the year, helicopter-maker Schweizer RSG aims to double and possibly triple its production output in 2023 and has plans to further expand beyond that depending on market demand.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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By Guy Norris
Missouri-based T53 maintenance and repair specialist Ozark Aeroworks plans to develop upgrades for the powerplant and even put the Eisenhower-era turboshaft back into production, after acquiring the entire product line from manufacturer Honeywell Aerospace.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Malaysian aviation services AeroTree has formed a partnership with China’s EHang to develop urban air mobility and placed a pre-order for 60 autonomous electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. hypersonic aircraft startup Hermeus has closed a $100 million Series B fundraising round, providing the funding to fly its first three Quarterhorse flight-test vehicles and advance design of its planned Darkhorse production aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
Private equity firm DC Capital Partners has bought uAvionix, a seven-year-old developer and manufacturer of miniature avionics for communications, navigation and surveillance applications, including for unmanned aircraft.
Connected Aerospace

By Guy Norris
Airbus is continuing to build the industrial team for the CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL, partnering with Spirit AeroSystems to design and manufacture the multi-copter’s wings.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey, Lee Ann Shay
A Bombardier Global Express linked to a Russian oligarch has been impounded by the UK government under new laws that came into force on March 8.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
The Joby Aviation electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft that crashed on Feb. 16 during a remotely piloted flight test experienced a component failure, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
CPI Aerostructures CEO and President Douglas McCrosson is leaving, the embattled Tier 1-2 defense supplier announced March 9, and outside industry veteran Dorith Hakim has been hired as successor CEO.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
Residents' concerns about the impact of nearby flight operations on their land value are especially relevant to urban air mobility as eVTOLs and cargo drones hope to operate in the heart of urban areas.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Robinson Helicopter says it will switch to electric power for its light helicopters when it “makes sense” and is closely watching progress being made by California-based Tier 1 Engineering on a battery-powered R44 conversion program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Until there is more available data on what a stabilized approach is for an eVTOL aircraft, the FAA will maintain a conservative approach as to how vertiports should be safely built.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Leonardo Helicopters is targeting service entry of the AW609 commercial tiltrotor in 2023 and aims to clinch long-awaited FAA certification later this year or early next.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General is to audit the FAA’s certification of urban air mobility aircraft at the request of Congress.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Spirit AeroSystems’ acquisition of the assets of Bombardier’s Short Brothers operation in Northern Ireland in 2020 has accelerated the company’s goal to diversify so it is less reliant on the commercial sector.
Aircraft & Propulsion