A glimmer of hope can be seen for the sales of Dassault’s Falcon business jets in the recent acceleration of orders after years of sluggish transactions, according to numbers released during the company’s biannual press conference at its Saint-Cloud headquarters near Paris.
The drone affiliate of cargo airline Astral Aviation has signed an agreement with Yamaha Motor Co. to introduce Yamaha’s Fazer R G2 unmanned helicopter in Kenya for “last-mile” cargo deliveries and crop-spraying applications.
Embattled aerospace valve provider Circor, whose management recently fended off an unsolicited takeover attempt favored by its own shareholders, has sold its Spence and Nicholson product lines to Emerson for about $84.5 million in cash.
IATA DG and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said “preventing fragmentation” between international regulators remains the group’s foremost concern regarding the return-to-service of the Boeing 737 MAX.
AirMed International has added a Nextant 400XTi medical jet to its base in San Antonio to provide medical flights and to transport transplant teams farther.
The U.S. National Air Transportation Association and its Illegal Charter Task Force have launched a new website at nata.aero/advocacy/avoid-illegal-charter.aspx.
Gulfstream Aerospace has added two Brazilian aircraft services companies, Líder Aviação and Aero Rio Táxi Aéreo, to its authorized warranty facilities.
