FedEx Express is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy Air, the company building an autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system. FedEx Express will develop plans to test Elroy Air’s Chaparral autonomous air cargo system within the...
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Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
LATAM selects Iguazio to operationalize machine learning
Iguazio, the MLOps (machine learning operations) platform provider, has announced that LATAM - the leading airline group in Latin America - has selected its MLOps platform for a large scale, cross-company AI innovation project. The project will span the entire...
Joby submits area-specific certification plan
Joby Aviation, a California-based company developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for commercial passenger service, has submitted its first area-specific certification plan to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), believed to be an...
Rolls-Royce North America invests in Indiana test facilities
Rolls-Royce North America will invest $400 million in a major modernization of engine test facilities in Indiana, bringing total company investment in the United States to nearly $1.5 billion in the past decade. New facilities in Indianapolis will upgrade full engine...
Embraer expands autonomous flight technologies partnerships
In an intensive process to accelerate the future of autonomous aviation, Embraer has announced a broad set of new technological partnerships with global companies focused on breakthrough technologies in the autonomous systems arena. These agreements are part of...
Eve and Acciona enter strategic partnership
Eve UAM. and Acciona, which provides regenerative solutions for a decarbonized economy, have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of a global and sustainable Urban Air Mobility ecosystem. Under the terms of the partnership, upon the...
ATSG orders more Boeing freighter conversions to meet strong demand
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the world’s largest owner and operator of converted Boeing 767 aircraft, has announced that its leasing subsidiary Cargo Aircraft Management has placed a second order with Boeing for the conversion of four CAM-owned 767-300...
AerSale reports fourth quarter and full year 2021 results
AerSale has reported full year 2021 revenue of $340.4 million, up 62.9% year-over-year, with a full year adjusted net income of $63.6 million, or 18.7% of sales. The company’s adjusted EBITDA was $89.3 million or 26.2% of sales for full year 2021, up 73.2%...
Breeze Airways opens training centre in Salt Lake City
Breeze Airways has unveiled its new Breeze Training Academy in Salt Lake City for initial and recurrent training for its pilots, flight attendants and technical operations teams. The centre has offices, training classrooms and briefing rooms and, for pilot training,...
ATP Flight School purchases 20 flight simulators
ATP Flight School has purchased 20 Flight Simulators, specifically Advanced Aircraft Training Devices (AATDs), from Frasca Flight Simulation. Carrying a list price of six million dollars, the FAA-approved AATDs will be used exclusively in ATP's Airline Career Pilot...
Beacon and ELMS Aviation partner on the future of aviation maintenance
Beacon, the maintenance coordination platform for faster return-to-service powered by EmbraerX, has built a working group with ELMS Aviation, a competence management software service provider. This collaboration aims to test a fully integrated solution to manage...
NetJets to add a fleet of Lilium Jets
NetJets, the private aviation company, and FlightSafety International, professional aviation training company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lilium (Lilium), makers of an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) jet, for a proposed...