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Spirit Airlines | September 03, 2020

The check-in experience of the future just landed at two of the nation’s busiest airports—right on time and ready to make travel easier. Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE) unveiled its redesigned ticket lobby today, which represents a new paradigm for the U.S. airline industry. The lobby is packed with industry-leading technology designed to limit face-to-face interaction, streamline flight check-ins and get Guests from the curb to the brightest planes in the sky quicker than ever. S...

Aviation Technology

The Sterling Group | March 03, 2022

The Sterling Group ("Sterling"), an operationally-focused middle market private equity firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of West Star Aviation, LLC ("West Star") from Norwest Equity Partners. West Star is a provider of maintenance, repair, and overhaul ("MRO") services to the business aviation industry providing maintenance, modification, and other services to aviation customers. West Star provides services at four primary locations in East Alton, Illinoi...

Air Transport

Velo3D | September 02, 2022

Velo3D, Inc., a leading metal additive manufacturing technology company for mission-critical parts, today announced Hermeus, a company developing hypersonic aircraft for defense and commercial applications, has acquired an original Sapphire and a large-format Sapphire XC that is designed for high-volume production. The printers, both of which will be calibrated for Inconel 718, will be used to build parts for Hermeus’ Chimera engine and Quarterhorse aircraft. “Metal additive manufact...

Air Transport

Skydweller Aero | February 13, 2023

An aerospace company, Skydweller Aero Inc., the developer of solar-powered aircraft for defense and commercial industries, recently announced that it has successfully completed a demonstration of its initial autonomous flight test using its new proprietary fly-by-wire (FWB) actuation control system. After meeting the criteria for safety-critical operations set by the Spanish Civil Airworthiness Authority (AESA), Skydweller's test pilot passively rode along on board. It validates both t...