2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.

News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

It has established itself as a significant aviation trade show in Europe.

The 2026 Aero Friedrichshafen Show Had Its Largest Business Aviation Presence Yet

Charlotte Bailey

News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

News about environmental issues relating to aircraft operations, including noise issues, emissisions, and regulations. See Fuel for biofuel.

Unither Bioélectronique expands envelope of experimental aircraft 

Modified R44 Flies Hydrogen-electric Helicopter Circuit

Curt Epstein

New developments at FBOs including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

The projects added shelter at panhandle gateway KECP

Sheltair Boosts Hangars at North Florida Gulf Airport

Amy Wilder

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

News and issues relating to the aerospace industry that are related to the science, engineering and business of flight in space involving civil, industrial and military applications, and similar topics related to flight in the atmosphere of the Earth that are not covered more directly by other AINonline subject channels. In other words, both astronautical and aeronautical subjects, except for those aeronautical topics that are specifically covered elsewhere on this website.

First G-Airmet with mountain wave tag issued May 4

Mountain Wave Turbulence Added to AWC Products

News and developments about everything that goes into the cabin of an aircraft, from floor coverings to headliners, with a special emphasis on in-flight entertainment, communications and other electronics for passengers. If it is in the cabin of an aircraft, it’s covered here.

Medical helicopters could adopt antimicrobial blue light technology 

Airbus and Lindo Explore HEMS Cabin Disinfection

News and issues relating to civil and military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) of all kinds and sizes, including those used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), combat (unmanned combat air vehicles, or UCAVs), law enforcement, research and other applications. Of particular focus is the FAA's planned integration of UAS into the U.S. national airspace system.

Essential news and analysis on the defense aerospace business. Your trusted source for new and ongoing programs and requirements in military aircraft (manned and unmanned), engines, avionics, weapons and associated systems, including ground-based air defense.

Experimental aircraft to validate hybrid-electric propulsion technology  

Updated DARPA Hybrid-Electric XRQ-73 Makes First Flight

Environmental research program had already used three quarters of previously agreed funding

UK’s FAAM Research Aircraft Formally Ceases Operations 

Matt Thurber

RTX business expects to create 200 new jobs by 2030

P&WC Opens Morocco Engine Parts Manufacturing Facility

Issues regarding financing of aircraft; aviation insurance; tax issues for aircraft operators; new companies and people in the aviation financing and insurance industries.

Inventory fell to 6.6% of fleet versus 8.2% historical average

Preowned Jet Values Rise In Face of Transaction Declines

Kerry Lynch

News and developments about aviation fuel, including jet fuel, aviation gasoline, and biofuel.

Content Archive: May 2026

The 2026 Aero Friedrichshafen Show Had Its Largest Business Aviation Presence Yet

Modified R44 Flies Hydrogen-electric Helicopter Circuit

Sheltair Boosts Hangars at North Florida Gulf Airport

Mountain Wave Turbulence Added to AWC Products

Airbus and Lindo Explore HEMS Cabin Disinfection

Updated DARPA Hybrid-Electric XRQ-73 Makes First Flight

UK’s FAAM Research Aircraft Formally Ceases Operations

P&WC Opens Morocco Engine Parts Manufacturing Facility

Preowned Jet Values Rise In Face of Transaction Declines

WingX: Bizjet Operations Flourishing Despite Fuel Swings

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