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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

By Molly McMillin
The Machinists union in Wichita is pushing back on a government mandate requiring employees of government contractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as Textron Aviation and Spirit AeroSystems work to comply.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
DHL Express plans to demonstrate the use of delivery drones for port logistics in a joint initiative with Malaysian aviation services company Pen Aviation and local cargo operator Raya Airways.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The first electric racing aircraft built for the new Air Race E series is being readied for flight.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Modern Aviation, based in New York, has signed an agreement to acquire five Sheltair Aviation fixed base operations in New York, subject to government approval. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021. Modern Aviation is backed by Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a private equity fund.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Tony Osborne
The European Space Agency and UK air navigation service provider NATS are exploring whether 5G cellular communications technology could help to provide a resilient positioning capability for uncrewed air systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
European engineering services company Akka Technologies has unveiled its concept for a zero-emission regional aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Aircraft finance and asset management company Amedeo has entered a strategic partnership with Aura Aero that includes a letter of intent to purchase 200 of the French startup’s planned 19-seat ERA hybrid-electric regional aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Forestry Service has retired its Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopters used for the aerial supervision of firefighting operations.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Backed by Chinese electric car maker XPeng, startup HT Aero has reached agreement to raise more than $500 million to develop an integrated flying and driving vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A central tenet of Uber’s Elevate vision for urban aerial ride sharing was that this is commercial air transport—aircraft owned by airlines and flown by professional pilots plying between vertiports.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Used business aircraft prices have increased 20% to 30% due to historically low inventory and a backlog of new aircraft orders, an International Aircraft Dealers Association survey of its dealers shows.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
With investors including Alaska Air Group, UP.Partners has closed a $230 million early stage venture capital fund dedicated to supporting companies enabling future mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility