Cessna 208B Grand Caravan

The startup is developing a detect and avoid system that uses an air-to-air radar, among other tools, to avoid collisions with other aircraft.

Autonomy is coming to commercial aviation. Its first stop: the Cessna Caravan.

About 60% of Venezuela’s Air Force fleet comprises Western aircraft, and this ratio is likely to remain relatively unchanged as Venezuela’s relations with the U.S., especially, are slowly improving.

The testbed aircraft made its first flight in June from the company’s test facility at California’s Mojave Air & Space Port.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force spent the latter half of the 2010s working to divest itself of aircraft programs in an effort to slow an oncoming budgetary crisis in the country. But notwithstanding constrained funding, the need for a strong regional bloc to counterbalance growing instability in the region remains strong.

Timothy Eyre, Monte’s COO, discussed the company’s vision for AAM leasing and shined some light on how Monte is approaching this new business line.

China’s CATL says its power-dense condensed battery technology has flown in an aircraft with a takeoff weight of 4 metric tons.

Autonomous flight system startup Merlin Labs has won a contract potentially worth $105 million to demonstrate a reduced aircrew capability for SOCOM C-130Js.

Developers of turbo- and diesel-electric generators offer flexibility.

The company is studying hybrid-electric helicopters, continuing its electric certification drive and pushing Dash 7 conversion for NASA’s flight demonstrator.

The bench is a flight simulator built to the fidelity required for certification testing of both hardware and software that will then go to the aircraft.

Surf Air Mobility said it now expects to receive FAA certification for its electrified powertrains in 2027.

U.S. startup Merlin has received a Part 135 air operator’s certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand.

U.S. startup Surf Air Mobility has committed to take up to 90 hybrid electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft from Electra.

The AFWerx innovation unit is focused on cargo applications for advanced air mobility aircraft.

The AAM Stock Composite dropped by 7% during the week ending Jan. 19, extending a losing streak that has seen the index shed nearly 19% since the year's start.

AAM startup ZeroAvia has entered into a conditional accord to supply 20 of its 600-kW ZA-600 hydrogen-electric powertrains to an Indian regional operator.

U.S. startup Surf Air Mobility has signed on another African operator to its backlog of carriers awaiting electric conversions of their Cessna Caravan fleets.

Surf Air Mobility has announced a new partnership with Kenyan carriers Safarilink and Yellow Wings to electrify their Cessna Caravan fleets by 2027.

Ampaire is claiming a world record for hybrid-electric aircraft endurance after completing a nonstop 12-hr. flight with its Electric EEL propulsion testbed.

With over 3,000 aircraft delivered since 1984, the Cessna Caravan is a workhorse of global aviation—known not only for its ubiquity, but also its utility.

U.S. startup Surf Air Mobility has partnered with Brazilian regional carrier Azul Conecta to electrify a portion of the carrier’s Cessna Caravan fleet.

Whether it's battery-electric, hybrid-electric or hydrogen-electric, operators look set to have a choice of sustainable propulsion to replace the Caravan’s.

Reliable Robotics has completed a study for the USAF examining retrofitting the service’s large multi-engine jets with its autonomous flight control tech.

Ron Draper joined Wichita’s Cessna Aircraft Co., now Textron Aviation, in 1999 as director of supply chain.