Aircraft & Propulsion

Lilium plans to sell 20 Lilium Jets to startup airline UrbanLink for use in regional air mobility services across South Florida.

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

The CEO of Lilium says the company may have to leave Germany if it cannot secure government funding for development and certification of its Lilium Jet.

A consortium led by H2Fly has received German government funding to develop a 350-kW hydrogen fuel cell system designed for commercial aircraft applications.

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.

Florida-based lessor Azorra is looking to expand its widebody fleet to become a “meaningful” part of its portfolio.

A subscale flight demonstrator of distributed electric propulsion for large passenger aircraft has made its remotely piloted first flight.

The carrier will enter longer-haul markets with Airbus A350s set to begin arriving in 2027.

Distributed-propulsion testbed flies; Airbus hydrogen APU demo; uncrewed delivery corridor; another Chinese eVTOL; and Wright’s megawatt-scale electric engine.

The goal of HyPower is to demonstrate the stable operation of a fuel cell in flight, including its restart.

U.S. electric seaglider startup Regent has partnered with sustainable- and maritime-aircraft lessor Monte to offer leasing options for the Viceroy seaglider.

The Climate Impulse enterprise is aiming at 2028 for the first circumnavigation on green hydrogen.

In Europe, the monitoring of non-CO2 emissions and their role in aviation’s environmental impact is a hot topic—and airlines are not all on the same page.

This week’s Carbon Analysis returns to Latin America and reassesses the emissions of Avianca Group, Azul Brazilian Airlines, GOL Airlines, and LATAM Group.

This marks the first direct supply of Neste SAF produced in Singapore to airlines at Changi Airport.

A breakdown of annual deliveries data reveals the ups and downs of how Embraer delivered 1,800 E-Jets over the last two decades and which models led the way.

A subscale flight demonstrator of distributed electric propulsion for large passenger aircraft has made its remotely piloted first flight in Italy under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 public-private research program.

“The manufacturing of [PW1000G] parts is a little bit of a bottleneck,” MTU CFO Peter Kameritsch said on a recent earnings call.

Howmet's John Plant, often seen as a shrewd prognosticator of large aircraft manufacturing rates, has slashed his company’s expectations for 737 shipments.

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

While overall passenger aircraft recovery in the region is nearly complete, not all operators are equal; each has very different recovery stories.

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.

India’s DGCA has quickly moved to allow the reclamation of Go First’s leased aircraft, ending a long legal battle over the disposition of its fleet.

Regional aircraft OEM ATR has received an order for 10 ATR 72-600 turboprops from Avation, a lessor based in Singapore, for deliveries between 2025-28.