ANA Holdings, parent company of All Nippon Airways, is cooperating with Japanese startup Aeronext on the development of delivery drones with the goal of beginning commercial operations in 2022-23.
Bye Aerospace is to begin work on the first production-conforming prototype of its eFlyer 2 electric training aircraft after closing $10 million in strategic and venture financing.
Drone delivery company Volansi is to partner with U.S. Special Operations Command to demonstrate its Voly M20 long-range cargo unmanned aircraft under a small business contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force.
Australian air taxi startup AMSL Aero is to build a flight-test center at Narromine in New South Wales thanks to an A$950,000 ($660,000) grant from the state government. AMSL is developing the Vertiia, a two-passenger tandem tilt-wing electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
German air taxi startup Lilium is in “detailed discussions” with major suppliers as it prepares the next stage in development and service-entry of its Lilium Jet after concluding an agreement with Toray Industries to deliver composites for the aircraft’s structure.
The FAA has joined NASA in using the phrase Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to describe a broader vision for what until recently has been called urban air mobility (UAM).
Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 6X large, long-range business jet remains on schedule, despite challenges from the novel coronavirus pandemic, with first flight planned for early 2021, the company says.
The COVID-19 pandemic that forced the National Business Aviation Association to cancel its annual 2020 Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition is the latest in a series of event terminations this year for the organization that potentially involve millions of dollars in lost revenue.
In a change of senior leadership at Duncan Aviation, Jeff Lake, formerly Duncan Aviation’s chief operating officer at its Lincoln, Nebraska, facility, has assumed the role of president from Aaron Hilkemann, now Duncan’s part-time CEO and chairman of Duncan Aviation’s board of advisors.
Flying Colours Corp. has signed a distributor agreement with Aviation Clean Air, based in Savannah, Georgia, to act as an installation facility for ACA Needle Point Bi-Polar Ionization Components in North America.
VisionSafe Corp. announced that EVAS (Emergency Vision Assurance System) is now available on the Legacy 600 and Legacy 650 as a supplemental type certificate and on the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 as loose equipment.
Constant Aviation has added 35,000 sq. ft. of hangar space and invested more than $2 million on physical improvements in the three years since it acquired its Orlando Sanford International Airport facility in Florida.
Terra-Gen has donated $250,000 to The Flight Test Museum Foundation to sponsor the SR-71A Blackbird and help fund construction of the new Flight Test Museum.
Aerion is partnering with Canadian clean energy company Carbon Engineering (CE) to evaluate use of a synthetic jet fuel produced using captured carbon dioxide (CO2) for its AS2 supersonic business jet.
