GE Aviation’s new advanced turboprop for the Cessna Denali is crucial to growth plans that call for its business and general aviation powerplants to generate more than $1 billion a year by 2023.
Google founder Larry Page’s electric Kitty Hawk “flying jetski” Flyer will hit the consumer market at year’s end with a sleeker development of the quadrotor prototype.
The B-29 known as “Doc” will serve as a traveling history museum to honor the men and women who designed, built and served on the aircraft. The historic Superfortress was the talk of the show at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Silicon Valley-based A³, set up to disrupt its parent Airbus from within, plans to fly its Vahana single-seat autonomous urban transportation aircraft by year’s end, a spokesperson disclosed at EAA AirVenture.
This is the Phillips Petroleum Company’s 100th year and the 90th since it launched its first aviation fuel with a race from the U.S. to Hawaii, won by the famous Bellanca “Woolaroc” monoplane.
Piper Aircraft deliveries and revenue are on the rise, with dealer inventory of M-class aircraft the lowest in five years, Piper CEO Simon Caldecott said during EAA AirVenture.
Electric-drive truck manufacturer Workhorse unveiled a hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft at last month’s Paris Air Show, and is exhibiting it at EAA AirVenture’s Innovation Center in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Eight years of flying U.S. Air Force F-16 Vipers in high-risk military operations failed to prepare Kirk Hawkins for the daunting civilian challenge of starting up Icon Aircraft company, maker of the A5 light sport amphibian.
Blackhawk Modifications has teamed with Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) to offer an IS&S new-generation flight deck and autothrottles for the King Air 200 and 350.
Globalstar subsidiary Spot has logged 5,232 “saves” over the past 10 years with its tracking and messaging service that users activate with a battery-powered handheld unit.
The commercial airline industry will need to hire more than 2 million pilots, maintenance technicians and cabin attendants over the next 20 years, largely to support the growth of airline fleets and changes in fleet mix, an updated Boeing forecast says.
The heads of the NBAA, GAMA and AOPA went to Washington this week to lobby House and Senate members to oppose the “privatization” of the FAA’s air traffic control organization in an upcoming House vote.
Three seniors from a high school in northern Virginia won this year’s Founder’s Innovation Award presented by the Experimental Aircraft Association in a “shark tank”-like competition.
The numbers are in: GE Aviation, the first corporate user of the HondaJet, says the diminutive business aircraft is boosting productivity and saving it money compared with flying on the airlines.
Gulfstream deliveries slowed slightly in the second quarter, but the business jet manufacturer is positioned to deliver as many aircraft this year as it did in 2016, says Phebe Novakovic, CEO of parent company General Dynamics (GD).
