Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Government officials want companies that will serve nation’s civil and military space needs.

New CEOs of both Enstrom and MD Helicopters can forge a new niche in the rotorcraft market for their companies.

Reliability-induced Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engine availability headaches are likely to last all year, Raytheon's top executive warns.

Montana Aerospace, a supplier of complex lightweight components and structures for aerospace and other sectors, surprised stakeholders with good news Feb. 22.

Aero India highlights India’s ambition to move beyond simple assembly to creating advanced, exportable aircraft design.

eVTOL propeller test; hybrid-electric turboprop; hydrogen supply networks; and vertiports for Dubai.

Production delays and inflated costs associated with this slow civil aviation recovery could morph into a long-term structural problem.

U.S. pushes for more Ukraine aid; U.S. tankers grounded; Polish MQ-9 flights to start; and replacing Russian platforms.

The 100-seat aircraft was developed in the early 2000s with the participation of leading Western suppliers.

Airbus management has finally accepted that its narrowbody ambitions have been unrealistic, but there is confidence the OEM can deliver more widebodies.

An undeniable trend voiced in recent supplier surveys and conferences is that providers favor Airbus over Boeing—and maybe any other OEM.

The significance of the order for 470 new aircraft from Airbus and Boeing goes far beyond its sheer size.

Heat management has become a critical issue in fuel cell-based system design.

Emphasizing resilience, Daher unveils a 2027 strategy to make the most of airframers’ planned production ramp-up.

Airbus has been selling more A321neos than A320neos since 2019. Now it is also producing more of its largest narrowbody—with significant strategic implications.

Every survey is a snapshot in time, a photograph of aggregated data.

While fuel savings in flight are the preponderant environmental outcome of using composites, changes in manufacturing would be welcome.

As demand for freighters continues to grow, cargo conversion specialists are offering new options, including for smaller aircraft types.

India will receive 275 trainers and LCAs over the next decade, more than any other nation aside from the U.S.

Balloon industry says it can survey the Earth better than satellites and for less cost.

Daher unveiled a new five-year "Take off 2027” strategic plan to "become a large, profitable international company” with four complementary businesses.

The structure forms the lower half of the Airbus-led Multi-Functional Fuselage Demonstrator (MFFD).

The loss to Japanese industry and government is more than just the $7 billion funneled into the ill-fated SpaceJet program.

Historic electronic systems facility in Rochester needs funding for modernization.

Pyka, MightyFly and Moya Aero are among startups developing heavy-payload uncrewed aircraft for cargo use.