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By Paul Jackson
U.S. aerospace has the largest presence of any at this year’s Paris Air Show, totaling some 350 civil and defense manufacturers and suppliers.

Already positioned as Israel’s largest aerospace company, Israel Aerospace Industries is maintaining momentum as it strives to achieve solid profitability and efficiency.

By Tony Osborne
Saab is looking for a high-level of cooperation with British industry should Sweden decide to join the UK’s Tempest next-generation combat aircraft work, company CEO Hakan Bushke has suggested.

By Angus Batey
Boom, the U.S. start-up that is working on a supersonic airliner, has extended its relationship with additive manufacturing specialist Stratasys.

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russian Helicopters Company is showing Ansat light twins in VIP and medevac configurations. The former will take part in flying display while the latter can be seen only at the static.

Swedish airframer Saab has revealed that the company’s proposals for Finland’s fighter contest also include the company’s GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft.

By Paul Jackson
Commuterliner or special missions platform; new build or upgrade; RUAG Aerospace Services is in both the static display and the German Pavilion offering sales and support for the Dornier Do 228NG turboprop twin currently in production at its Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, plant.

By Bill Carey
Committed to the concept of “fly-by-sight,” Universal Avionics is showcasing a new-generation flight management system at this year’s Paris Air Show that presents flight-plan and navigation data on head-up and wearable displays.

By Graham Warwick
The de Havilland name has returned to aircraft manufacturing with completion of the $300 million sale of the Dash 8 program by Bombardier to Canada’s Longview Aircraft Capital.

As president and CEO of AIA, Fanning is facing numerous issues affecting association members representing manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military and business fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, space systems, engines, missiles and unmanned aerial systems.

By Guy Norris
CFM International is using the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX to catch up with deliveries of the aircraft’s Leap-1B engine and develop long-term fixes to address early in-service issues.

By Tony Osborne
The aircraft here at Paris, is the second machine destined for Pakistan, from an order placed by Islamabad in 2015. Work on the program started in January 2016.

The new Tactical Heron (T-Heron) can operate with multiple payloads and remain on station for 24 hours. Flight testing of the new UAS is expected to begin in 2019 and continue through the next year.

The demise of the Shuttle program was the third time in Florida’s history where the “state was maimed by an overdependence on a large federal program,” recalled Frank DiBello, president and CEO of Space Florida.

By Molly McMillin
Business aviation departures in Europe declined 3% in May compared to a year ago to 77,189, marking the second successive decrease this year, according to WingX data.
European Business Aviation Special Report

By the end of 2018, more than 1,650 Pilatus PC-12s were in service, the fleet leaders having 34,000 hours and more than 46,000 landings to their credit.
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By Paul Jackson
It has already secured local patents, and has U.S. and European equivalents pending. Now, South African company Pegasus has made its international launch at EBACE 2019.
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Textron Aviation is nearing completion of its Cessna Denali prototype along with two flight test and three ground test articles.
EBACE

By Paul Jackson
As spacious as the smallest Airbus can be, SkyRetreat will feature a totally new approach by Lufthansa Technik’s designers.

By Angus Batey
F/List has signed a contract with Bombardier which will see the OEM hosting a 20-strong team from the Austrian interiors specialist at its UK Service Center at Biggin Hill outside London. The team will be up and running within Bombardier’s facility in “the next couple of months,”.
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Jet Aviation – a completions and maintenance concern employing more than 1,400 professionals – has news to report across many regions, including Europe, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.
EBACE

By Angus Batey
Skylegs has signed on with Web Manuals as a launch member of their online shop, bringing Web Manuals’ documentation services to Skylegs customers, saving them having to log in to multiple websites.
EBACE

Collins Aerospace is offering new capabilities to Citation CJ3 owners in Europe with EASA approval of Pro Line Fusion avionics as a retrofit.
EBACE

Battery-powered drones are making lots of news these days but their larger VTOL siblings, capable of carrying passengers, are fast emerging as candidate vehicles for future urban mobility needs.
EBACE

By Paul Jackson
1.Buy the airplanes; 2. Order the flight planning aids; 3. Collect an AOC. That was the strategy for the visiting president of HK Bellawings Jet Ltd, Zhang Yijia at EBACE this year.
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