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Essential news for 06 Apr 2025

Lifestyle Aviation named Tecnam dealer in major US area

LifeStyle Aviation announced its official appointment as an authorized Tecnam aircraft dealer for a major U.S. territory. This strategic partnership opens new opportunities for flight schools looking to expand and modernize their training fleets with Tecnam’s state-of-the-art aircraft, including the P-Mentor, P2006T, and P2010 models. For 17 years, LifeStyle Aviation h...

Two years after its launch, Daher’s technology center transforms composite innovation into solutions

Daher is celebrating the second anniversary of Shap'in, its technology center dedicated to the composite aerostructures of the future, which is located at the company’s Saint-Aignan-de-Grandlieu site near Nantes, France. Designed to centralize R&D and accelerate the maturity of composites, Shap'in takes a new step by moving towards their industrial scaling. This transition is a k...

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Jet Aviation redelivers quietest VIP narrow-body completion

Jet Aviation has redelivered its quietest narrow-body completion to date, with sound levels below 40 dB SIL. The elegant contemporary interior was designed by the Jet Aviation Design Studio, and engineered, produced, installed, and certified in-house at the completion center in Basel, Switzerland. Jet Aviation developed an in-house acoustic lab to build on the team’s previous achievemen...

XTI Aerospace completes Global Finite Element Model for latest TriFan 600 configuration

XTI Aerospace announced the Q1 completion of its Global Finite Element Model for its latest TriFan 600 configuration, achieving a key 2025 first quarter product and engineering milestone announced in a prior press release. This achievement advances the design team's ability to perform further structural integrity and load distribution analysis.   The GFEM represents the next...

Atlantic Airways inaugurates new flight training centre in the Faroe Islands, powered by Thales’s helicopter pilot training solutions

Thales and Atlantic Airways celebrated the inauguration of a new flight training centre in the Faroe Islands. This new centre features Thales’s world renowned, cutting edge, AW139 EASA-approved Reality H Full Flight Simulator Level D, for the highest level of training and certification. The simulator also includes a correlated hoist trainer that uses new Mixed Reality technology, suppor...

Euroairlines signs an interline agreement with Azores Airlines for the global distribution of its routes

Azores Airlines has signed an interline ticketing agreement with the Spanish airline Euroairlines, which will allow it to expand its global reach and offering. Through this partnership, Azores Airlines will gain access to the travel agency ecosystem, OTAs, aggregators, and consolidators in over 60 countries via the IATA code Q4-291 held by Euroairlines. Azores Airlines is a Portuguese airl...