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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...

Lufthansa orders 10 Airbus A350-1000 and 5 more A350-900 aircraft

10 Airbus A350-1000s and 5 Airbus A350-900s will join Lufthansa Group fleet. With this firm order for the latest generation widebody aircraft, the airline will continue its decarbonisation trajectory. Compared to the previous generation of aircraft, the A350 consumes significantly less fuel, with a corresponding reduction in emissions. Passengers will benefit from the latest state-of-the-art cabin...

Low-carbon aviation is speeding up: construction of AURA factory at Toulouse-Francazal airport

AURA AERO new site will be dedicated to production of its INTEGRAL and ERA programs. New "home" is at Toulouse-Francazal airport, France. Rapid growth and ramp-up of production (over 100 orders for INTEGRAL as well as LOIfor 330 ERA aircraft), current infrastructures will develop very significantly in the near f...

Start of the process for ASTM certification of Global Bioenergies technology for SAF

Global Bioenergies has the perspective to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel through its bio-isobutene technology, and has worked these last years on the ASTM international certification procedure. The balloting process, a key step for such certification, is now scheduled. Air transportation industry requires the fuel it uses to be certified by ASTM international. SAF is certified worldwide acco...

First run of Tech TP ACHIEVE hybrid electric turboprop demonstrator

Safran Helicopter Engines has successfully completed ground tests of a "more-electric" variant of its Tech TP turboprop engine at its Tarnos facility. The Ardiden 3-based technological demonstrator incorporates technologies from Clean Sky1 ACHIEVE project, resulting in more efficient and more sustainable operating modes. ACHIEVE (Advanced mechatronics devices for a novel turbop...

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