Content Archive: April 2025

Aircraft

Cormorant Prepares to Start Testing Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator

Dutch start-up aims to bring regional airliner to market in 2030
Cormorant aircraft
Airports

UAE Approves First ‘Hybrid Heliport’ Design for Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi Cruise Terminal to support both helicopter and eVTOL air taxi services
Digital rendering of the Archer Midnight eVTOL on a helipad at the Abu Dhabi Cruise Terminal
Engines

Boom Picks Supersonic Engine Test Site in Colorado

Boom moves into Reaction Engines’s former hypersonic test facility
Boom Supersonic's test facility at Colorado Air and Space Port
Safety

AINsight: Focus on the Rudder and LOC-I Accidents

Improper rudder use can lead to loss of control in aircraft
Boeing 737-8.
FBOs

Utah FBO OK3 Air Starts Expansion Project

$10 million development is slated for completion early next year
Rendering of hangar under construction at OK3 Air
Avionics

FreeFlight and Collins Team Up on ADS-B Integration

STCs include Textron and Hawker aircraft
Collins Aerospace’s Pro Line 21 avionics system installed in a Hawker aircraft.
Rotorcraft

Bell Revenues Surge 35% in First Quarter

Commercial helicopter deliveries jump to 29 units as FLRAA program drives military growth
Bell
Regulations and Government

FAA Scraps Immediate Denial Rule for Pilot Medicals

Stakeholder input prompts agency to withdraw plan; FAA commits to education and process improvements
A view of the front of The Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Phenix Jet Reports First Temporary Registration in Asia

Process was completed at Singapore's Seletar Airport in five days
Singapore Seletar Airport
Airlines

United Commits to JetZero's Blended-wing-body Airliner

Carrier could buy up to 200 of the 250-seat Z4 airliner
United Airlines JetZero Z4 airliner