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By Graham Warwick
With target dates for the launch of electric air taxi services drawing closer, more manufacturers are striking deals aimed at ensuring infrastructure will be in place when their aircraft are ready.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Automated flight control system startup Skyryse has raised $200 million in funding and signed partnerships with five fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft manufacturers, including Robinson Helicopter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Avantus Aerospace has sold off its remaining composite business lines to other private equity investors and to Latécoère so it can focus on fasteners and C-class parts for the metal-friendly narrowbody production ramp-up.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon is hoping there are no schedule delays or overruns if defense industry employees do not get COVID-19 vaccines and leave their jobs as the deadline under President Joe Biden’s executive order approaches.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace plans to increase business-jet production in 2022, with strong order demand leading to the company’s highest backlog in six years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
UK electric air taxi startup Vertical Aerospace has secured additional funding tied to its planned going-public merger with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Wing is expanding its drone delivery operations from smaller towns into more complex urban areas with plans to begin on-demand store-to-door deliveries in metropolitan Dallas-Fort Worth.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Embraer subsidiary Eve Air Mobility will launch a month-long simulated urban-air-mobility (UAM) trial in Brazil on Nov. 8, connecting the affluent coastal suburb of Barra de Tijuca with Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão International Airport.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation’s Cessna 172 Skyhawk and 182 Skylane single-engine piston aircraft have been approved for 91-octane unleaded fuel or 100VLL fuel.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
In July 2019, research and development center Tecnalia in Spain’s Basque region conducted tethered indoor test flights of the prototype of an unusual “drone of drones” design for an autonomous air taxi. Now Spanish unmanned aircraft services provider Umiles has acquired the design from Tecnalia with the goal of producing the first 100% domestically developed electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Alaska Air Group and startup ZeroAvia have partnered to develop a liquid-hydrogen fuel-cell power train capable of up to 5 megawatts to power part of Alaska Airlines’ fleet of 76-seat De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 regional turboprops.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Italian and French airport operators have formed a company, Urban Blue, with international ambitions to design, build and manage the vertiport infrastructure for urban air mobility.
Airports & Networks

By Chen Chuanren
Australia’s New South Wales Police Force Aviation Command has commissioned three new Bell 429 helicopters as the unit transits into a Bell fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
After a lengthy career in various business-aviation posts in his native South Africa, Chay White moved to England in 2017, to join the Luxaviation Group.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Switzerland’s air navigation service provider Skyguide is seeing the country as a laboratory for European air traffic management (ATM), as a reorganization program and accompanying system change in the country are well underway.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Airflow has signed a memorandum of understanding with Honeywell to explore use of the avionics manufacturer’s IntuVue RDR-84K compact multimode radar for detect-and-avoid on its planned electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Citing increased confidence following static tests of its ultraquiet electric propulsors, startup Whisper Aero has accelerated plans to use the technology in a quiet, efficient electric general aviation aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Flirtey conducted the first FAA-approved drone delivery in 2015, and now the startup has secured its first order from a U.S. scheduled airline.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Korea Aerospace Industries has unveiled plans to develop commercial and military versions of an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle, in passenger and unmanned cargo variants.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Airport development and management company Propeller Airports has acquired the Castle & Cooke fixed-based operation at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Graham Warwick
A white paper outlining the benefits of advanced air mobility, created by a group of UK stakeholders, lays out an ambitious road map of actions required by 2025 if the country is to become a leader in the emerging market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
An Ariane 5 heavy launcher is to send the SES-17 satellite into orbit during the night of Oct. 22-23 local time at Arianespace’s Kourou, French Guiana, spaceport, as Thales seeks to capture half of the crucial North American inflight connectivity market.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Singapore-headquartered H3 Dynamics has closed a $26 million funding round to develop hydrogen-powered unmanned aircraft for longer-range parcel and cargo delivery.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Embraer delivered 21 business jets and nine commercial aircraft during the third quarter of 2021, bringing its number of deliveries so far the year to 54 business jets and 32 commercial aircraft, the company said Oct. 21.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Harold Summers, Helicopter Association International director of flight operations, has died unexpectedly, HAI announced Oct. 20.
Maintenance & Training