Surf Air Mobility (SAM), a company that offers a platform for air transportation services loosely similar to an aviation Uber or Lyft, has secured a previously announced exclusive deal with Textron Aviation Inc., to develop and operate electrified versions of the Cessna Grand Caravan EX, a single-engine turboprop aircraft.
A capsule containing fragments of the asteroid Bennu, a remnant of the primordial solar system, landed safely in the Utah desert on Sunday, September 24, 2023
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has unveiled a proposed rule that would require U.S.-based commercial space operators to remove any debris larger than 5 mm from highly-used regions of space within 25 years of their launch or reentry.
The U.S. Marine Corps has announced a two day safety stand down in response to three Class-A aviation incidents over the prior six weeks. The most recent event involved a Marine Corps Lockheed F-35B.
The launch tempo of SpaceX continues at an unprecedented pace with the company claiming their 65th launch of 2023.
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a preliminary accident report into the August 20, 2023, crash of Alaska Flight 1288, a Boeing 737-890 NG. The report says that Flight 1288 sustained damage when the left main gear collapsed while landing on runway 20R at ll:15 PM PDT.
Boeing announced a 50 aircraft order from Vietnam Airlines on September 11, 2023. Vietnam Airlines is an existing Boeing customer with a history that includes leased Boeing 767s in the 1990s and a current fleet of 15 787 Dreamliners.
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