AEROCON

Air Transport

Garmin | July 23, 2021

Garmin International Inc., a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd., today announced the launch of Smart Glide. This game-changing safety tool assists pilots in engine power outages by automating activities to minimize pilot workload. Smart Glide joins the Autonom family of autonomous flight technologies, which includes the Collier Trophy-winning Garmin Autoland. If a single-engine aircraft lacks engine power, the pilot is faced with the critical and time-consuming task of navigating the aircraft from its pr...

Aerospace

Eviation Aircraft | November 11, 2022

Eviation Aircraft, a manufacturer of all-electric aircraft, today announced that Northern Territory Air Services (NTAS), an Australian scheduled airline and charter aircraft operator, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for 20 all-electric Alice commuter aircraft. The Eviation Alice is the first flight-proven all-electric commuter aircraft of its scale – capable of carrying nine passengers, or 2,600 lbs of useful load in a cargo configuration. Built from a clean-sheet design around ...

Airport Management

ZeroAvia | December 17, 2020

Shortly after British Airways declared a new partnership with hydrogen-powered aircraft startup ZeroAvia, Amazon joined various new financial specialists backing their arrangement to build up a 19-seat zero-emission turboprop by 2023. California-based ZeroAvia completed a series of test flights recently with a Piper Malibu Malibu turboprop modified with a 300-kilowatt (kW) battery electric force framework alongside a tweaked cockpit show and PC. In a Dec. 16 press release, ZeroAvi...

Business Aviation

SKY Leasing | February 21, 2022

SKY Leasing (“SKY”), a dedicated aviation investment manager, and Wafra Inc. (“Wafra”), a global alternative investment manager, today announced a joint venture partnership between SKY’s managed funds and certain funds managed by Wafra. The strategic partnership will seek to acquire a diversified aircraft leasing portfolio, targeting approximately $3 billion of investments in new and young next-generation aircraft on lease to leading airlines globally...