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Daher aircraft division transitions to sustainable aviation fuel for all flight operations at its Tarbes, France site

Daher shared its experience in the use of sustainable aviation fuel for the company’ flight operations at the Tarbes, France headquarters site of Daher’s Aircraft Division in southwestern France. Nicolas Chabbert, the Senior Vice President of Daher’s Aircraft Division, noted that the company is fully committed to the use of sustainable aviation fuels for the transition...

Construction starts for VoltAero Cassio electric-hybrid aircraft facility at Rochefort – Charente-Maritime Airport

Bids are being sought for the construction of an industrial site at Rochefort - Charente-Maritime Airport in France’s Nouvelle-Aquitaine region where VoltAero is to perform the assembly and deliveries of its Cassio electric-hybrid aircraft family. This construction project notification – issued by the regional association of airports, called the Syndicat Mixte des Aéro...

Safran to lead Open Fan demonstration program with European partners under Clean Aviation OFELIA project

Safran Aircraft Engines is coordinating the demonstration of new Open Fan engine technologies within the frame of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking project OFELIA, which stands for Open Fan for Environmental Low Impact of Aviation. French engine manufacturer will be working with 26 industry European key partners, including Airbus, Avio Aero, GKN Aerospace, as well as research lab such as ONERA...

EASA ‘Permit to fly' - AURA AERO INTEGRAL S first flight should take place in the coming weeks

EASA delivered to AURA AERO “Flight Conditions”, prequel to the first flight of INTEGRAL S, the second aircraft of the INTEGRAL family. Thanks to this document, the French Civil Aviation Authority can now deliver the authorization for this new aircraft to begin its flight test campaign in the coming weeks, at the end of which it will obtain its CS-23...

TARMAC Aerosave and Donecle sign a drone aircraft inspection agreement

TARMAC Aerosave and Donecle signed a partnership to develop drone-based fuselage and engine inspection solutions. A 100% French autonomous drone designed for aircraft inspections. Donecle, based in Toulouse, France, develops a range of automated solutions to optimise visual aircraft inspections. The Donecle system consists of a fully automatic flight - without a pilot or GPS - coupl...

Aircraft Maintenance Digitalisation - ATR partners with Swiss-AS

ATR and Swiss-AS announced a partnership to further improve the digitalisation of airline maintenance management. Through this collaboration – a first between an aircraft manufacturer and an MRO software company – the two partners are working hand in hand to improve and customise the integration of ATR maintenance data into the AMOS software provided by Swiss-AS to...

Liebherr to explore new technologies for hydrogen-powered aircraft

Liebherr-Aerospace is developing an air supply system for the fuel cell dedicated to the propulsion of Airbus hydrogen-powered demonstrator aircraft. After the first study phase, the OEM has already designed and delivered a functional air supply system demonstrator with a power of 1 MW, which is presently installed in Airbus’ testing facilities. During the second study phase, cu...

Ascendance Flight Technologies raises €21 million for further development & industrialization of its sustainable solutions

Ascendance Flight Technologies has raised €21 million. French Tech Souveraineté, operated by Bpifrance as part of the France 2030 plan, CELAD, Expansion Aerospace Ventures, SC Mahé, Adrien Montfort (CTO Sorare) via Snaw Ventures, and ARIS Occitanie have contributed to this funding round alongside historic investors Habert Dassault Finance, Céleste Management, IRDI, and M-Capital,...

Zero emissions in French regional skies on the way to becoming a reality - Amelia & Universal Hydrogen

Friday, March 3, 2023 will go down in history. On this day that Universal Hydrogen flew a 40-passenger regional airliner using hydrogen fuel cell propulsion. The plane, named Lightning McClean, took off from Grant County International Airport and flew for 15 minutes. The flight was the first of a two-year flight test campaign that is expected to culminate in 2025 with the entry into service of ATR...

Airbus’ most popular aircraft takes to the skies with 100% sustainable aviation fuel

Airbus is continuing its testing of this bio-jet fuel with a new VOLCAN flight test campaign using the best-selling A320 Family aircraft. An A321neo took off today from Airbus’ headquarters in Toulouse, France with both of its engines powered by 100% unblended SAF. Since the end of February, the aircraft is being closely followed by a data-collecting aeroplane with the mission to gathe...

Airbus delivers first ACH160 Exclusive helicopter

Airbus Corporate Helicopters has delivered the first example of the ACH160 Exclusive helicopter. The helicopter is not only the first ACH160 in Exclusive configuration to be delivered globally but also the first ACH160 of any version to be delivered in Europe. It was accepted by a private customer based in France and entered service immediately. Speaking at Heli-Expo in Atlanta, Head of Ai...

Sabena technics to provide MRO services for CMA CGM AIR CARGO fleet

Sabena technics has been selected by CMA CGM AIR CARGO for the maintenance of its four Airbus A330 Cargo aircraft, which will be operated from Roissy-CDG. Under this new multi-year contract, Sabena technics teams based at Roissy-CDG will provide line support for the fleet as well as associated logistics services to support CMA CGM AIR CARGO's growing operations. Saben...

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