With crossover narrowbody jets such as the Embraer E-Jet families and the Airbus A220 family proving to have the right characteristics to deliver…

With investments from American Airlines, Avolon, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce, plus commitments for up to 1,000 aircraft, electric air-taxi developer Vertical Aerospace has reached agreement with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition to go public in a deal that values the UK startup at $2.2 billion.

Russia’s Irkut Corporation has scheduled the initial deliveries of its new MC-21 narrowbody passenger airliner, the first six of which will go to Rossiya Airlines in 2022. 

Boeing’s inventory of completed, undelivered 787s grew to about 100 aircraft at the end of the first quarter, largely due to a five-month delivery pause that ended in late March.

The trial will be a follow-on to a similar one performed earlier this year with an A350.

Aiming to meet its long-term expansion plans, Spring Airlines is looking to buy nine Airbus A320s and a flight simulator. 

Alessandro Profumo is upbeat about the future of post-COVID-19 European defense capability.

Regional air mobility startup Electra has unveiled its first commercial product, a hybrid-electric aircraft designed to fly a pilot and seven passengers up to 500 mi. with takeoff and landing distances of just 100 ft.