Airbus

Airbus announced that its BelugaXL transport aircraft received its type certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on Wednesday. According to Airbus, the model completed more than 200 flight tests for a total of over 700 flight hours during its flight test campaign. The BelugaXL is expected to enter service in early 2020. Based […]

Airbus has selected 22 startup companies to participate in a six-month Airbus BizLab accelerator program designed to provide a platform for further developing new technology and products. The startups were chosen from an applicant pool of 704 candidates from 59 countries. They will be joining BizLab locations in Toulouse, France; Hamburg, Germany; Bangalore, India; and […]

India-based airline IndiGo placed a firm order for 300 aircraft in Airbus’ A320neo passenger jet family on Tuesday. According to Airbus, the order includes a mix of A320neo, A321neo and A321XLR aircraft. In addition to bringing IndiGo’s total A320neo family aircraft orders up to 730, the agreement represents one of the largest single-operator orders in […]

Transport Canada issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) on Friday limiting the Airbus A220, formerly the Bombardier C Series, to a maximum setting of 94 percent N1 above 29,000 feet. According to Transport Canada, the directive is due to several occurrences of inflight engine shutdowns on Pratt & Whitney-powered A220s. The AD (PDF) covers A220s […]

Airbus delivered the 1,000th aircraft in its A320neo family of passenger jets on Thursday. The neo—standing for “new engine option”—line includes the A319neo, A320neo and A321neo. Number 1000, an A321neo, went to India-based airline IndiGo, Airbus’ biggest customer for the A320neo family with orders for 430 aircraft. The aircraft was assembled at Airbus’ factory in […]

Airbus-owned Voom launched its on-demand helicopter “air taxi” booking platform in the U.S. on Thursday. The company is beginning its U.S. service in California’s San Francisco Bay area, offering flights between airports in Napa, Oakland, Palo Alto, San Francisco and San Jose. Voom, which is also headquartered in San Francisco, has been operating in São […]

Airbus expects the worldwide passenger and freighter aircraft fleet to more than double in the next twenty years, the company said in its Global Market Forecast (GMF) for 2019-2038. The 2019 annual report, titled “Cities, Airports & Aircraft,” forecasts a need for 39,210 new aircraft—25,000 to support a projected annual air traffic growth of 4.3 […]

Lufthansa is no longer selling the last row of seats on its Airbus A320neo fleet. According to reports, a company memo cited a recent airworthiness directive (AD) issued by EASA as its reasoning for the change. The AD, which implements temporary revisions to the A320neo flight manual to limit the aircraft’s center of gravity envelope, […]

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (U.K. MoD) and Airbus Defence and Space officially withdrew their Eurofighter Typhoon from Canada’s Future Fighter Capability Project (FFCP) last Friday. In the wake of the decision, both U.K. MoD and Airbus emphasized their continued commitment to Canada’s government, armed forces and aerospace sector. Airbus complimented the FFCP team’s […]

Airbus Aerial has received a waiver from the FAA to conduct urban unmanned aircraft systems (UAS/drone) flight operations beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and without requiring a visual observer in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The flights will be conducted under the North Dakota Department of Transportation’s UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP), an FAA-sponsored public-private […]