Boeing

Former Boeing CEO and Chairman Frank Shrontz, who led the company through key developments ranging from the 747-400 and 777 to the space station, died aged 92.

Boeing delivery delays continue to hamper Allegiant Air, as the ULCC no longer anticipates placing any MAX aircraft into service during the first half of 2024.

Embraer’s commercial division priorities have been selling more aircraft and smoothing out production and by extension deliveries.

Embraer’s near-term focus is on selling its products and ramping up production.

A lack of negotiations with Airbus over repricing shipsets for the European OEM—if not also a sale of related business units—is proving more harmful.

The long-awaited flight was scrubbed to address an issue with an oxygen relief value in the upper stage of the spacecraft’s Atlas V launch vehicle.

Boeing has disclosed it needs to inspect undelivered and in-production 787s after an employee discovered certain tests to validate work were not conducted

The long-awaited crewed debut of Boeing’s Starliner caps off a 13-year effort to certify multiple commercial providers of low-Earth-orbit astronaut transport.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Readers write about fighter aircraft for Ukraine, Boeing management, Boeing 787 nonconformance issues, piloting from the ground, young readers and IP theft.

Air Canada is working to lease Boeing 737-8s for additional lift in 2025, as it contends with a tight capacity environment.

Lufthansa is anticipating further delays of its first Boeing 777-9 deliveries and now does not expect the first one to come until 2026, CEO Jens Ritter said.

IndiGo's A350 order highlights how Boeing is slipping behind in the region that holds the greatest potential for commercial aviation in the coming decades.

Cancellation of the U.S. Army’s scout helicopter program is driving focus on UAS and uncrewed teaming.

The OEM’s two-decade experiment in remote management has failed.

Large suppliers maintain cautious optimism that production-line struggles will be short-lived and are not a precursor to lower long-term production rate targets

Steep costs, capacity swings and Boeing woes compounded an already seasonally challenging quarter for U.S. airlines.

Boeing never built the 7J7, but its legacy continues to be felt to this day. Listen in to hear how technology once studied for that program could re-emerge on the company’s next new airplane almost 40 years later.

Lockheed’s road map to victory provides clues for the sixth-generation combat aircraft program.

Despite a comfortable backlog, the country’s industry continues to grapple with financial woes and recovering know-how.

Boeing has bought back the St. Louis defense aircraft factory it once owned but was most recently under the GKN Aerospace brand.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) a $13 billion contract for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC).

Bombardier, Embraer, and Gulfstream have shown new aircraft can be developed at reasonable prices.

Supply chain problems with different root causes will keep output below previous forecasts for much of 2024, as 737 challenges draw more scrutiny.

COVID-19 wiped out six years of growth and hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value.