Manufacturing & Supply Chain

SPAC led by Directional Aviation’s Kenn Ricci plans to take Embraer’s eVTOL spinoff Eve public in $512 million deal.

The industry grew 7.5% in 2021, and 2022 should see a very strong 22% expansion.

SAL Saudi Logistics Services has launched the extension of its new Jeddah Station.

Strategically important wins for Airbus underscore the depth of Boeing’s troubles.

Airbus said today that it will be defending its position against a claim by Qatar Airways filed in the English courts.

The U.S. Justice Department has unveiled an ongoing antitrust investigation into labor market allocation in the aerospace engineering market, revealing indictments against six executives who are alleged to have established an anti-poaching regime among their companies.

With backing from United Airlines, ZeroAvia expands its hydrogen-electric propulsion technology to regional jets.

Western sanctions and U.S. export rules are making Russian and Chinese narrowbodies development and certification programs even harder.

Forecasts, snapshots and commercial air transport and business aircraft to watch.

Japan’s F-15 upgrades; Romania Seeks Norwegian F-16s; U.S. lawmakers press for tanker details; and Australia to retire MRH90s early.

Airbus plans to expand production to unprecedented levels, but many of its suppliers are making their own assumptions

As Airbus and Boeing outline plans to make flying compatible with environmental goals, they are choosing different paths.

The Denver-based startup is reportedly in final negotiations to develop a production facility for its Overture supersonic airliner at Piedmont Triad International Airport near Greensboro, North Carolina.

Forecasts, snapshots and aircraft to watch.

In 2022, commercial aero suppliers will begin a new era facing more costs, pressure and work—and fewer lower tier providers in the end.

The airframers face another year of focus on operational and quality issues, market uncertainties and product development challenges.

Rolls-Royce’s hybrid-electric aero power and propulsion system has delivered more than a megawatt of power just weeks after going on test for the first time.

A likely B-21 debut in 2022 could spur a wave of B-2 and B-1 retirements.

The combined company, to be traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, ostensibly will have a pro forma enterprise value of $974 million.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

MRO services accounted for nearly 60% of job losses in the total Canadian aerospace industry during between 2019 and 2020.

Program is likely to total 14 deliveries in 2021 with no sign of when handovers will resume.

The companies initially worked together on 3D-woven composite blades for CFM International’s Leap airliner engines

The backstop agreement provides that an affiliate of AEI will buy up to 7.5 million shares of GigCapital stock at $10 apiece.

This week’s TATV news from the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Turkey looks at a major breakthrough in the development of an eVTOL cargo carrier.