Daher

By Graham Warwick
Major events in aerospace and defense during 2024.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus and Daher are negotiating for the potential acquisition of some Daher activities in A320 family aerostructures subassembly near Nantes, Western France.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Daher’s strategic plan calls for the potential launch by 2027 of a hybrid-electric turboprop in the small business or utility aircraft category.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The evenly shared effort gave results that may inform crucial technology orientations for all three companies.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Stop-fold tiltrotor tests; EcoPulse lessons learned; Black Hawk advanced controls; China’s AAM avionics supplier.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Such progress will enable Airbus, Daher and Safran to make decisions about their decarbonization projects.
Emerging Technologies

By Bill Carey
Daher unveiled both aircraft in 2022, and reports a backlog for both.
ShowNews

By Thierry Dubois
As suppliers struggle to follow the production ramps devised by Airbus, Safran and others, frustration is mounting over diminishing margins.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Molly McMillin
When it comes to special mission aircraft, Daher’s goal is to grow the sector to 30% of its business.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has opened a new logistics hub in Spain that will support rotorcraft production at its sites across Europe.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Bill Carey
Since acquiring Kodiak in 2019, France’s Daher industrial group has increasingly integrated its Kodiak and TBM product lines.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Daher’s board of directors has appointed Didier Kayat as the group’s chairman of the board to succeed Patrick Daher, who is retiring.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
New, more capable single-aisle turboprops have shaken up deliveries in the business aviation turboprop market.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Bill Carey
TBMs and Kodiaks are single-engine turboprops that share some of the same major suppliers.
EBACE

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has not taken delivery of KC-46 tankers from Boeing in more than two months.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Jeremy Kariuki, Molly McMillin, Bill Carey
Listen in as editors discuss visits to Bombardier, Textron Aviation and Daher, where they covered events and announcements from across the business aviation industry.
BCA Podcast

By Molly McMillin
Business jet and turboprop manufacturers delivered 178 aircraft during the first three months of 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Production targets for Kodiak aircraft are expected to rise to 25 in 2024, up from 18 in 2023, from strong customer demand.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Batteries for 100-seaters; Daher advances thermoplastics; UK CAA explores hydrogen; MagLev for eVTOL; Beyond flies fuel cell.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Daher is gearing up to test large components made from thermoplastic composites and pitch them for future commercial aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
While acknowledging they have to improve competitiveness, Daher’s officials insist OEMs must accept price increases.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Round the world on hydrogen; first-responder VTOL competition; stop-fold tiltrotor; another Chinese eVTOL.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Piccard has partnered with Raphael Dinelli, an offshore sailor, test pilot and composites engineer.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Major aerostructures supplier Daher is prioritizing Airbus A320 component deliveries to help mitigate supply chain issues that have caused production delays.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Thierry Dubois
Daher says the hybrid-electric Ecopulse demonstrator has now logged 1.5 hr. of flight testing in full electric mode.
Emerging Technologies