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World first net zero transatlantic flight to fly from London in 2023

In 2023, one of Virgin Atlantic’s flagship Boeing 787s, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines, will take off from London Heathrow and make the journey to New York’s John F Kennedy Airport – a journey made by thousands of people for business, family, and leisure every week. But...

Boom Supersonic chooses FlightSafety International as Overture flight training partner

Boom Supersonic announced FlightSafety International (FSI) as its exclusive partner for Overture supersonic flight training and education. FSI is the premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators to the world's leading commercial aircraft manufacturers and...

H3 Dynamics adds hydrogen-electric propulsion to unmanned airships built in France by HyLight

H3 Dynamics and HyLight have joined forces to bring new long range, sustainable and quiet unmanned airships to a range of commercial applications. Traditionally, airships use combustion engines for their propulsion power. With new hydrogen propulsion system developments at H3 Dynamics, HyLight’s new breed of airships will now offer long-range zero emission flight and open a whole new ca...

Focus on climate-neutral flying - OHB SE and AFK Enterprise agree to acquire stake in Deutsche Aircraft Holdings

OHB and AFK joint company DAH Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH on Thursday, December 8th, signed an agreement to secure an important minority equity investment in Deutsche Aircraft Holdings, the sole owner of Deutsche Aircraft Group companies. The investment comes from a joint venture between aerospace company OHB SE and investment company AFK Enterprise AG and will propel development of new gree...

Embraer E195-E2 and E190-E2 receives type certification in Canada

Embraer E2 family of commercial jets, the E195-E2 and E190-E2, has received Type Certification from Transport Canada Civil Aviation, following certification from ANAC, the FAA and EASA in 2019 and 2018 respectively. The delivery of the first of fifty E195-E2 ordered by Toronto based Porter Airlines, which will also be the first E195-E2 to operate in North America, will take pl...

LanzaJet marks major milestone on World first ethanol alcohol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel production facility

LanzaJet, a leading sustainable fuels technology company and sustainable fuels producer, joined government officials, industry leaders, and investors to celebrate a major constructiond milestone at the LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Soperton, Georgia. LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels is the world's first ethanol-based alcohol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel production plant. C...

Mission Next Gen Aircraft - Air New Zealand selected VoltAero for sustainable fleet ambitions

Air New Zealand selected VoltAero as one of “Mission Next Gen Aircraft” demonstration partners with its Cassio electric-hybrid aircraft as a unique solution for sustainable fleet ambitions. VoltAero and Cassio are aligned to Air New Zealand goal of working with world-leading innovators in introducing zero-emission passenger/cargo flights. The Cassio aircraft fa...

Ruili Airlines becomes the first airline in China to be a part of the Embraer Energia Advisory Group

Ruili Airlines has signed an agreement with Embraer to join its Energia Advisory Group - Energia is Embraer’s project developing sustainable aircraft for the future. The companies will work together on the design requirements for next-generation sustainable aircraft and the potential market in China. Based at Kunming Changshui International Airport, Ruili Airlines is a full-service premium c...

Boeing awards Lufthansa Technik contract to support New Zealand P-8A Poseidon fleet

Boeing awarded Lufthansa Technik a contract for sustainment services within its support of the Royal New Zealand Air Force future fleet of four P-8A aircraft that will leverage commercial capabilities to improve readiness rates. The contract is for provision of Lufthansa Technik Total Component Support, a comprehensive component services program for the 737 covering more than f...

World longest urban drone delivery route connecting hospitals and laboratories in Zurich

Matternet has begun test operations on a five-kilometer beyond-visual-line-of-sight route over the city of Zurich, Switzerland. This route is the world’s longest drone delivery route over a major city and will be used to transport diagnostic samples between the Triemli and Waid Hospitals – both a part of Stadspital Zürich, a municipal central hospital owned by the city of Zur...

Ampaire wins NASA award for innovative hybrid powerplant system research

Ampaire has won a $150,000 Phase 1 award from NASA under its Small Business Innovative Research program. The award is for the High Efficiency Powertrain for Hybrid Aircraft project. The Phase 1 award will fund sizing, architecture and other analytical studies over six months as a prelude to a potential Phase 2 award that would fund the system’s installation and testing on Ampaire&r...

Airbus-led large-scale flight demo teams up fighters, a helicopter and drones

Europe first large-scale multi-domain flight demo, led by Airbus, two fighter jets, one helicopter and five unmanned remote carriers teamed up and accomplished a mission that could occur in real-life situations. The Future Combat Air System Manned-Unmanned Teaming Demonstrator project will now move to the next phase: further paving the way for FCAS by developing a flyin...

Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Virginia Tech announce new research partnership

Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce have signed a joint agreement with Virginia Tech for pre-competitive research focusing on the impact of environmental contaminants on aeroengine operation and testing. The four-year project will leverage Virginia Tech’s research and cross-discipline expertise on engine operation, instrumentation, and geosciences as well as the current research relatio...

In support of UKSAR2G Search and Rescue programme Bristow to purchase six AW139 helicopters

Bristow Group signed a contract to procure six AW139 intermediate twin engine helicopters to support the Second-Generation Search and Rescue Aviation programme by the U.K. Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Aircraft’s deliveries are expected to start in 2023 and to be completed in 2024, joining an existing fleet of nine AW189 super medium twin engine SAR helicopters as part of the UKSAR2G...

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40 years, 40 aircraft: Piaggio Aerospace celebrates a landmark double achievement

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Aircalin signs Flight Hour Services contract for Airbus A350-900 fleet

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Mexico expands C-130J Super Hercules fleet with second aircraft

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Malaysia Airlines renews longstanding Boeing IMM services agreement during MRO Asia-Pacific 2026

Boeing and Malaysia Airlines have renewed their Integrated Materials Management (IMM) services agreement for five years, the companies announced at MRO Asia-Pacific in Singapore. The renewed partnersh...

Half a thousand strong: Textron Aviation rolls out 500th Cessna Citation Latitude

Textron Aviation has reached a significant production milestone with the rollout of the 500th Cessna Citation Latitude from its Wichita, Kansas, facility. The achievement reflects the enduring popular...

Electra demonstrates revolutionary airport operations with Ultra-Short Takeoff aircraft using helicopter-style procedures

Electra announced the successful completion of first-of-its-kind flight operations from a heliport located on the commercial airport ramp at Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport. The demonstration high...