Indonesia’s aviation regulator has cleared AutoFlight’s autonomous V2000CG CarryAll eVTOL aircraft for use after validating its Chinese type certificate. On June 12, Shanghai-based AutoFlight reported that the approval was issued on June 3, claiming that this marks the first time an eVTOL model has secured an overseas type certificate.

Maeve Aerospace has gone bankrupt after failing to raise the €20 million it needed to continue developing the Maeve Jet, a hybrid-electric regional airliner that had attracted backing from SkyWest, Delta Air Lines, and Japan Airlines. A Dutch court declared the start-up and its parent company bankrupt on May 28. Maeve’s design leadership has already resurfaced at MHIRJ, whose out-of-production CRJs the aircraft was designed, in part, to replace.

Electric aircraft developer Vaeridion inked a letter of intent for more than 100 of its nine-passenger Microliners with six prospective European operators. Reporting the deals at the ILA airshow on June 10, the German start-up also announced a partnership with drone manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, which will use Vaeridion’s battery technology.

Honeywell Aerospace’s TPE331 turboprop engine will power a multi-mission uncrewed aircraft system being developed by Swarm Aero. The first propulsion system has already been supplied to be installed on what Swarm said will be a production-ready aircraft.

A group of aviation innovators has urged the European Commission to do more to support efforts to bring all-electric and hybrid-electric aircraft into commercial service. In an open letter published on June 11, aircraft developers Vaeridion, Aura Aero, and Elysian, among others, called for more support for research and development and industrialization, as well as changes, including tax reform, to make the market for the new technology more viable.

General Atomics AeroTec Systems has secured a launch customer for the Do228 NXT, agreeing to deliver the first modernized Dornier 228 to an unnamed humanitarian group in early 2027. The June 11 announcement came three days after GA-ATS rolled out the Do228 NXT, an updated version of the Dornier 228 twin turboprop, at its factory in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany—the site where Do228 aircraft have been manufactured and serviced for more than 40 years.

NASA’s X-59 reached its mission performance of flying at 55,000 feet and at Mach 1.4 on June 12 as the aircraft took a step toward its planned low-boom supersonic demonstration flights over communities. The envelope expansion came a week after the aircraft broke the sound barrier, flying at Mach 1.1 and reaching an altitude of 43,400 feet on June 5.