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AerCap, GE Capital Aviation Services | March 15, 2021

AerCap Holdings N.V. the global leader in aircraft leasing, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with General Electric under which AerCap will acquire 100% of GE Capital Aviation Services, a GE business. The combined company will be an industry leader across all areas of aviation leasing, with over 2,000 owned and managed aircraft, over 900 owned and managed engines, over 300 owned helicopters and approximately 300 customers around the world....

Aerospace

Stratolaunch | November 15, 2022

Stratolaunch, LLC is pleased to announce a contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to support the flight test of the company's first expendable Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle, TA-1. Stratolaunch anticipates flying TA-1 in the first quarter of 2023Launched from the Roc aircraft, Talon-A is a rocket-powered, autonomous testbed with the ability to fly a variety of hypersonic flight profiles while carrying customized payload experiments on board. The first Talon-A vehicle is...

Air Transport

Volocopter | October 14, 2021

Volocopter's heavy-lift electric drone VoloDrone made its first public flight today at the ITS 2021 World Congress . Together with international logistics leader DB Schenker, Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), demonstrated the seamless integration of VoloDrone into the supply chain with an end-to-end freight transport demonstration. The partners showed the significant progress they have made together since DB Schenker became a strategic investor of Volocopter in early...

Aerospace

Aviation Week Network | November 09, 2022

Spirit AeroSystems has been named a winner of the Aviation Week Network 65th Annual Laureate Awards , honoring extraordinary achievements in the global aerospace arena. The 2022 Laureate Awards took place on November 3 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Spirit is a winner in the Commercial Aviation category. The company received this honor for reinventing itself during the COVID-19 pandemic to emerge stronger. Preparing for the recovery of the aviation market, the company impleme...