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The Weekly of Business Aviation, included with your AWIN membership, delivers critical business intelligence to keep business aviation leaders, including decisions makers from airframe manufacturers, suppliers, corporate flight departments, charter operators, FBOs, informed of the latest industry development – and the impact on business. Delivered each week directly to your inbox, each edition includes expert insight, analysis and data intelligence covering the business of business aviation so you can easily monitor the market and find new opportunities to grow your business.

 

 

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange, a milestone on its 15-year journey to launch commercial aerial ridesharing services in the U.S. in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Business-aviation and air-medical services provider Aero-Dienst on Aug. 10 announced a four-year contract award from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to maintain its Dassault Falcon 2000LX Inflight Systems and Technology Airborne Research aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Canada’s Viking Air and PAL Aerospace have teamed to develop a firefighting capability for the DHC-6 Twin Otter family of aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The test brings ZeroAvia a step closer to first flight of a Dornier 228 testbed powered by the system before the end of the year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Utility helicopter operator Erickson Inc. has put itself up for sale, looking for a “strategic partner” to bolster its operations, maintenance repair and overhaul, and manufacturing businesses.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The FAA is closing in on its first special condition for type certification of an electric propulsion system, and acknowledges that amending requirements developed over decades for piston and turbine engines is proving challenging.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
The organizers of the Australian International Airshow, better known as the Avalon Airshow, have canceled this year’s event as they acknowledged the “unpredictable environment” brought about by the Delta strain of COVID-19.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Beta Technologies believes the most direct path to FAA certification of an electric aircraft is to keep the vehicle simple.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
The Senate is nearing a vote on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package that would fund $25 billion of commercial aviation priorities through 2026.
Airports & Networks

By Graham Warwick
With analysts projecting that express logistics will be an early and potential large market for electric aircraft, U.S. autonomous cargo aircraft developer Elroy Air has completed a $40 million Series A funding round.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier is raising its forecast for business jet deliveries, revenue and profits in 2021, following a strong first half of the year and positive momentum.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
The first fruits of Project Able–British charity Aerobility’s program to refurbish former Royal Air Force Grob Vigilant motor gliders to sell and use in the charity’s own fleet–was on public display for the first time on Aug. 6.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The Japanese startup that won the Pratt & Whitney Disruptor Award at the 2020 GoFly Prize event has unveiled its first product, a single-seat electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle it plans to offer as a kit-built experimental aircraft beginning in 2022.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Pat Gallagher joined NetJets in 2010 after serving as executive vice president and head of sales at Marquis Jet Partners.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The partnership will support the government-led initiative to commercialize UAM in South Korea by 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Air medical helicopter operator Air Methods has announced a collaboration with German drone manufacturer Wingcopter to develop a drone delivery network for medical supplies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
High-altitude unmanned aircraft and satellites are an integral part of SoftBank’s vision for future 6G mobile networks that expand beyond wireless communications to underpin the digitalization of all industries.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Denmark is to permanently station a patrol aircraft in Greenland in a move that reflects the growing military importance of the Arctic region.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
Principals of agricultural aviation in the U.S., family members and others gathered Aug. 3 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the industry during an event at Leesburg Executive Airport outside of Washington, D.C.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Switzerland is to double the size of its national flight route network for helicopters, increasing the number of regions in the Alpine which can be reached by rescue helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
EHang has completed a high-rise fire rescue drill in China involving its unmanned firefighting EH216F and passenger-carry EH216 air vehicles as well as its Falcon B drone.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Yellowstone Acquisition Co., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, has signed an agreement to acquire Sky Harbour Group, developer and lessor of private aviation hangars.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Molly McMillin
Members of Canada’s largest union at Bombardier Aviation ratified a new three-year labor contract on July 31, ending a strike at the company’s Downsview plant near Toronto which produces Bombardier’s Global line of business jets.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
A technology being developed to rapidly join thermoplastic and thermoset composites to create optimized lightweight structures for cars and motorcycles is being adapted to aerospace with an eye to enabling high-rate, high-quality production of urban air mobility vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
With electric aircraft developers continuously seeking better batteries, the assets of a UK developer of high energy-density lithium-sulfur cells have been acquired by Johnson Matthey, a British multinational focused on sustainable technologies.
Advanced Air Mobility