Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
Volatus Infrastructure has signed an agreement with Bellefonte Airport in Pennsylvania to build a public-use FAA-compliant electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vertiport. The facility will have "up to" eight landing pads and a charging station and is...
Aviation analytics business Cirium has agreed to put its flight schedule data into the Amadeus Travel Platform. "As one of the travel industry’s technology leaders, complete and timely data is essential for Amadeus to deliver high quality information to customers. The...
Hydrogen aircraft fuel cell developer H2FLY and Stuttgart Airport are to co-found a "Center of Excellence for Hydrogen in Aviation". The centre will be based at the airport and is to be "purpose-built" for developing and testing hydrogen-electric propulsion for...
Rolls-Royce CEO Tufan Erginbilgic has warned employees that the company is on its last chance to change to return to profit. The incoming CEO who took over from Warren East in January told employees that the firm was underperforming every key competitor and that the...
Drone manufacturer Pyka has produced what it said is "the world's largest zero-emission cargo airplane and the first autonomous vehicle of its class". With a range of up to 200 miles, a payload of up to 400 pounds and a nose-loading facility with a sliding cargo tray,...
Air India has signed up Ideagen’s cloud software application Coruson to enhance safety management and facilitate real-time reporting of in-flight incidents. This move by the airline comes under the backdrop of three incidents of unruly passenger behaviour on two...
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has started the export of AVGAS 100 LL, a special aviation fuel meant for piston engine aircrafts and unmanned ariel vehicles (drones). “In the first-ever instance of India exporting this fuel, marking its entry into an estimated USD...
REGENT has secured a strategic investment from Japan Airlines (JAL) Innovation Fund for incorporating seagliders into JAL’s global network. With this investment, REGENT has raised over $45 million to date. Billy Thalheimer, co-founder and CEO of REGENT said: “This...
Airframe manufacturer Boeing has announced a partnership with the Kelly Heritage Foundation, an education organisation affiliated with Port San Antonio in Texas. The US $2.3 million investment by Boeing will "expand STEM [science, technology, engineering, and...
The US's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked Boeing to lead the development and test-flying of a "full-scale transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) demonstrator airplane". The belief is that the technologies will "inform future designs and could...
Malaysia-headquartered budget carrier AirAsia and DataVisor, a US-based fraud and risk management company, have agreed a deal that will see the airline expand its use of DataVisor’s "market-leading fraud and risk management platform to protect against a broader set of...
Canada's Coulson Aviation has won a two-year government contract for Australia’s National Large Air Tanker (LAT) fire-fighting service. A converted Boeing 737, Tanker 139 is the newest addition to Coulson’s FireLine fleet and will be based in Sydney, for deployment...