Category: Manufacturers

French aircraft manufacturer Daher has completed the purchase from Triumph Group of an aerostructures business in Florida, becoming a direct supplier to major aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Gulfstream. Daher, which manufactures TBM 940 and Kodiak 100 turboprops, completed the purchase on 1 July. It had in February revealed its plan to acquire the Florida...

MANILA, Philippines — Embraer, the world’s third largest aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Brazil, reaffirms its support to the Philippines Air Force (PAF) as it marks its 75th anniversary on July 2. PAF operates a modern fleet of six A-29 Super Tucanos, which Embraer delivered in October 2020 amidst the global pandemic. This underscores the importance...

An Embraer (NYSE: ERJ) E195-E2 medium-range airliner has successfully completed a flight test with one engine burning 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel.  Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney partnered in the demonstration, which included two days of ground testing at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale International Airport (KFLL) and a 70-minute flight at nearby Vero Beach Regional Airport...

Marshall University and Mountwest Community and Technical College’s (MCTC) Aviation Maintenance Technology (AMT) department have been granted FAA Part 147 certification.  Wednesday’s certification opens the door for Marshall and Mountwest to start offering aviation maintenance technology as a program in their aviation divisions.  In a statement, Marshall Division of Aviation head Carl Mummert said he...

SINGAPORE – Aircraft manufacturer Bombardier on Thursday (June 30) unveiled an expanded service centre in Singapore four times the size of the original amid a surge in demand for private jet services globally. The centre is expected to support more than 2,000 business jet visits each year and is now the largest maintenance facility of...

Deeside.com > News Posted: Thu 30th Jun 2022 Updated: Thu 30th Jun Complete Aircraft Group, part of JMC Group, has finalised the acquisition of Hawarden Airport-based Aerocare Aviation Services. The move formally ratifies its September 2021 terms of agreement and cements Complete Aircraft Group’s (CAG) move into business aircraft support. Aerocare – whose name will...

Marshall University and Mountwest Community and Technical College’s Aviation Maintenance Technology program received its formal FAA certification today.  This makes the program the newest FAA Part 147 aviation maintenance technician school in the country and the first of its kind in the region. The AMT program offers an Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree through an...

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has received its first firm order for up to 10 conversions of the E190/E195 passenger jet to a freighter from an undisclosed customer, underscoring the continued strong demand for all-cargo aircraft of all sizes even as the global economy begins to cool down. Aircraft for conversion will come from the customer’s...

l-r: Alan Barnes and Jason Davies Complete Aircraft Group, part of JMC Group, the established aviation services business, has completed the acquisition of Aerocare Aviation Services (AS). The completion ratifies terms of agreement from September last year and cements CAG’s move into business aircraft support. The Aerocare AS name remains unchanged. “We are delighted to...

Brazil-based Embraer has signed an agreement for ten conversion slots for its new E190F/E195F regional freighter conversion program [FATs 007697-7706].  An undisclosed customer will source the feedstock from its own inventory of aircraft for the conversion order, with redeliveries expected in 2024.   The deal is the first firm order for Embraer’s new regional jet conversion,...

After a three-year pandemic-enforced absence, Europe’s premier business aviation show EBACE returned to its home in Geneva in mid-May. While commercial aviation has yet to return to pre-Covid levels, business aviation has emerged stronger from the downturn as those travellers able to afford the price tag switch to private flying. In the meantime, the airframers...

The new report by Expert Market Research titled, ‘Global Maritime Patrol Aircraft Market Size, Share, Price, Trends, Growth, Report and Forecast 2022-2027’, gives an in-depth analysis of the maritime patrol aircraft market, assessing the market supported its segments like product type, application, end-user and major regions. The report tracks the newest trends within the industry and...

As the Indian Air Force (IAF) eyes for a new tactical transport aircraft, Brazilian aerospace manufacturing giant Embraer may potentially be offering an option in the form of the C-390. The Embraer offering is fresh from a win against American Defence and Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin’s C130-H Super Hercules in the Netherlands. Earlier this month...

The Brazilian aeronautical manufacturer Embraer inaugurated yesterday, June 21th, the new hangars of its services center in Sorocaba, state of São Paulo. As reported by the company, the useful area of the facilities doubled from the 20.000 square meters it had since its opening, in March 2014, to the current 40.000. Now, the complex has...

Japan Airlines (JAL) plans to decide within the next 24 months on the replacement aircraft for its ageing Boeing 767 and Embraer regional jets, apparently omitting the Mitsubishi SpaceJet M90 as an option. Ross Leggett, JAL head of route marketing, international relations and alliances, tells Reuters on the sidelines of the IATA annual general meeting...

By Kenneth I. Swartz | June 17, 2022 Estimated reading time 18 minutes, 26 seconds. When a major aircraft manufacturer closes its long-time factory, the magic of seeing new aircraft come to life and fly sadly ends. But the magic lives in the memories of the people who once worked there. On June 11, De...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – Thousands of new job opportunities are taking off across the country and it’s partially thanks to Knoxville-based aircraft manufacturer, Cirrus Aircraft. The makers of the world’s first single-engine personal jet was helping United Airlines train some 3,000 future pilots over the next decade. Leaders from United Aviate Academy traveled into Alcoa...

In the future, Diehl Aviation, a leading supplier of cabin interiors and aircraft systems, will also market its touchless lavatory in collaboration with aircraft manufacturer Airbus. Diehl Aviation and Airbus have decided to collaborate in offering touchless lavatory features for retrofits and upgrades in the future. As a result, Diehl will now also offer and...

French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation has admitted that the New Generation Fighter (NGF) program is facing further delays that could last more than a decade. The sixth-generation fighter jet was expected to take its first flight by 2027, with the final design scheduled to be completed by 2030. However, due to delays in reaching an...

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In preparation for our Latin America Report, we interviewed many people, including service providers, regulators, aviation lawyers, civil aviation organizations, and a diverse group of unmanned technology entrepreneurs many of whom have been featured in this column as success stories. So far, we have covered companies that have either bought unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and...

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When last I worked myself into a virtual lather over the glacial non-progress of the stupidly over complicated process of finding an unleaded aviation fuel, I allowed as how I had grown old watching this process. I’m two months older now and still, nothing has happened.   At Sun ‘n Fun, George Braly told us...

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The new report by Expert Market Research titled, ‘Global Maritime Patrol Aircraft Market Size, Share, Price, Trends, Growth, Report and Forecast 2022-2027’, gives an in-depth analysis of the maritime patrol aircraft market, assessing the market supported its segments like product type, application, end-user and major regions. The report tracks the newest trends within the industry and...

Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier has unveiled the Global 8000, a new plane with a maximum operating speed of 721 miles per hour — making it the fastest private jet in the world. The challenge: From 1976 until 2003, the Concorde was the world’s fastest passenger jet, with a cruising speed of 1,354 mph. That’s more...

The much-anticipated Bombardier Global 8000 business jet proved to be quite the show stopper when it broke cover at the European business aviation show in Geneva this week. The long-promised 8,000nm aircraft was revealed at the show as “the world’s fastest and longest-range purpose-built business jet,” which should help it become the perfect billionaires’ toy...

The TBM 910 single-engine turboprop is a step improvement of the TBM 900 that French aerostructures company Daher launched in 2014, several years after first acquiring a majority stake and later the balance of aircraft manufacturer Socata. Daher gained EASA certification of the -910 in March 2017 and presented it a month later at Aero...

A civil business aircraft completed for the first time Exceeding the speed of sound using sustainable fuels. Although the record was broken in May 2021, it has only now been announced, during the launch of the Global 8000, by Bombardier, a Canadian aircraft manufacturer that competes with Brazil’s Embraer. The record was broken with the...

Michael Amalfitano is convinced the recovery in European business aviation is about to get into full swing, despite the region lagging North America. The president and chief executive of Embraer Executive Jets predicts the market here will soon match the growth levels the other side of the Atlantic has seen in the past 12 months....

Cirrus may be one of the most successful brands in general aviation, with 528 aircraft delivered in 2021 and that total set to rise this year. However, chief executive Zean Nielsen is cautious about jumping too quickly into business aviation, despite a presence at this year’s EBACE where it has an SR22 piston-single and single-engine...

Business jets are a complicated concept – they not only have to offer a remarkable speed and range comparable to the performance of large airliners, but they must also be as comfortable as possible for their super-rich owners. The new Falcon 6X seems to be blending these qualities in the perfect way. 8 photos A...

American aerospace engineering manufacturer GE Aviation announced has completed testing of its Passport long-range business jet engine using 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).  According to the manufacturer, ground testing was conducted at GE Aviation’s Peebles Test Operations facility in Ohio, in the United States, where the company assessed engine performance and operability while fueled with...

At the end of this month, Gulfstream will put the finishing touches on the new fuel farm at its Savannah, Georgia headquarters, with its centerpiece consisting of a 30,000-gallon dedicated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) tank. The use of renewable fuel certainly isn’t new for the airframer, which was among SAF’s earliest adopters. One of Gulfstream’s G450s...

In the world of aviation, a city pair comprises the point of origin of the flight and the destination. A fancy way to say route, if you like, only that when it comes to city pair flights, they can be a direct flight with no stops, one with stops here and there, or one with...

Bombardier has unveiled  the mock-up of a drone demonstrator it has been using to test sustainable technologies as part of a project called EcoJet, which is targeting a 50% reduction in emissions compared with today’s aircraft. Although the Canadian manufacturer stresses that EcoJet is a research study, it showed a short video of a blended...

Image: Surack Enterprises Surack Enterprises founder Chuck Surack has purchased Michigan-based aircraft manufacturer Enstrom Helicopter Corporation. According to the company, which is headquartered in Indiana, it plans to “rebuild the Enstrom brand into one of the leading American-made helicopter manufacturer[s] as it once was.” Enstrom filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last January and announced in...

There’s a good chance you might have never heard of Miami-based businessman John H. Ruiz. The 55-year-old attorney’s name does not even feature on any billionaires’ list but his personal fortune has seen a meteoric rise over the last few years, which is evident from his purchase of a new personal asset – a Boeing...

May 6, 2022 Tesla Owner Tried to Use Its Autopilot Function and Crashed It Into a $3.5 Million Jet That’s gonna leave a mark! A Tesla owner used the car’s “Smart Summon” feature to attempt to have the vehicle come to him but the plan went haywire and the Tesla crashed into a very expensive...

As the industry readies for its first European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) for three years, its prospects have arguably not been as bright for a decade-and-a-half. Back in 2007, the global financial crisis lurked around the corner, and today the Ukraine conflict casts its shadow over the world economy. However – unlike its...

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 22 April 2022 – Sino Jet, the largest business jet company in the Asia-Pacific region, has recently brought in a Sino Jet self-owned Dassault Falcon 7X business jet from France. Being the first service provider to bring accessible business jets charter service to the Hainan region, Sino Jet...

A video posted to Reddit this week appears to show a Tesla vehicle driving into a jet while using one of its self-driving functions. Uploaded on Thursday by u/smiteme, the footage, reportedly taken at an event held by the aircraft manufacturer Cirrus, shows the vehicle running into what’s known as a Vision Jet. The vehicle...

After investigating six takeoff accidents involving uncommanded loss of engine power in Cirrus SR22T, the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending the aircraft manufacturer conduct a Functional Hazard Assessment (FHA) to address the issue and mitigate the risk.  According to a report issued on April 12 by the NTSB, the six accidents were the result...

Designing “third places” for passenger experience will continue to grow in importance, especially with an increasing post-COVID premium leisure market for many airlines. Virgin Atlantic proposes a cosy spot for two, with space for romantic tête-à-têtes, tastings of cognac or wine, and private dining on its new leisure-market A350s. Enter The Booth, a two-person space...

Embraer commissioned four carnivore-based “profit hunter” livery designs | Source: Simple Flying The only people that will ever see the interiors of your private jet will be those lucky enough to be invited on board, but everyone else will see the exterior paint job or livery. There are many airline companies as well as private...

Dassault Aviation is among the very few aerospace and defense companies that were included in Financial Times’ “Europe’s Climate Leaders 2022” ranking for outstanding results in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 6 photos Together with the Statista institute, Financial Times has conducted an extensive research project based mainly on reviewing existing emissions data. The goal was...

Canada has put to rest all speculations about its much-anticipated future fighter project. The yet-to-be-signed contract for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter brings into focus the debate over US political relationships and its sweeping defense contracts. As part of its air force modernization program, Canada had been looking for a new fighter aircraft to replace its...

The Dassault Falcon 6X completed low-temperature testing, passing another milestone on the road to certification. The manufacturer expects to have the model approved by the end of this year. During the tests, the engineering team – comprised of technicians and pilots from Dassault and engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada – subjected the aircraft to...

At the signing of the international sales representative agreement between Sun Air and Gulfstream Aerospace (Source: Sun Group) Hanoi (VNA) – Luxury airline Sun Air has become Gulfstream Aerospace’s international sales representative in the Vietnamese market following the signing of an agreement between the Vietnamese carrier and the US aircraft manufacturer in Hanoi on March 23. Under...

Pakistan Air Force (PAF) officially inducted the Chinese J-10C fighter jets earlier this month. China delivered the jets in just eight months rather than the years that defense manufacturers usually take to deliver fighter jets such as the J-10C. The J-10C fighter aircraft has been developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation (CAC). The J-10C fighter...

Gulfstream Aerospace is developing a digital database to preserve decades of its aircraft engineering documents. The Savannah, Georgia aircraft manufacturer is converting all records, CAD files, and other documents into machine-readable PDFs, which are then cataloged in a searchable database, dubbed the Aircraft Information Retrieval (AIR) systems. “This new system will save our engineering, manufacturing,...

Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, poses at the factory of French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation in Merignac near Bordeaux, France, February 6, 2019. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register PARIS, March 4 (Reuters) – Dassault Aviation (AM.PA) voiced frustration over a dispute with partner Airbus (AIR.PA) about...

ReportLinker Major players in the passenger aircraft market are The Boeing Company, Airbus SE, Embraer SA, Bombardier, Textron, Dassault Aviation, Piaggio Aero Industries, Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. , Avions de transport regional, ATR, and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. New York, Feb. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Passenger...

Inside a Bombardier Global 7500 demonstration aircraft. Thomas Pallini/Insider The Bombardier Global 7500 is the largest purpose-built private jet that’s currently flying passengers. Travelers can fly up to 7,700 nautical miles and at speeds of up to Mach .925, surpassing any aircraft from Gulfstream or Dassault.  Wealthy travelers aren’t clamoring for anything larger at the...