Whole Family of NA Engines Now Mates Up to Most of Sonex Lineup

Cooper Aircraft Corporation has expanded support for Rotax installations with a new mount for naturally aspirated engines. The new mounts cover the Highwing, Legacy, B Model, Onex, Sonex, Waiex, and Xenos. The mounts are delivered in white, and will mount up the Rotax 912UL, 912ULS, 912iS, 914UL, 915iS and 916iS. Currently, the team is working on turbocharged Rotax installations, but that will come later on once the creases are all ironed out.

Bigger Cabin Can Actually Haul All the Average Airline Pax’ Crap

The VX4 program has borne new fruit in the Valo, a 6-passenger eVTOL from Vertical Aerospace. If you've seen the VX4, you've seen most of this one, too, but now it's got some real airline bonafides. Vertical made sure you could take the average airline passenger with all their usual load: A big roller bag and a "carryon" that's 0.002" away from the maximum allowed size...  

Data Gathering Will Help Develop Future UAS Traffic Systems

Reliable Robotics snagged a new contract with NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) to take on demo flights with their automated C-208B Caravan. Reliable’s flight tests have already been gathering plenty of data for their own internal purposes, but now that data can be put to work at even higher level. Flight testing their contingency management procedures falls right in line with the push for improved handling for uncrewed aircraft. The FAA’s push to create better UAS-compatible ATC systems will benefit greatly from Reliable’s data, since they’re using a certificated aircraft design already in use in the real world. It's good news for the FAA, too, since...

600 Business Jets to Receive the Connectivity Service By the End of 2026

NetJets is joining the ever-growing number of operators turning to low-Earth-orbit internet, announcing that it will equip 600 aircraft with Starlink connectivity under a new agreement with SpaceX. Installations start almost immediately and are expected to run through the end of 2026, marking one of the largest business-aviation rollouts of the service to date.

First Global 8000 Goes to Patrick Dovigi, Marking the Jet’s Official Entry into Service

Bombardier has earned a round of applause from the business aviation community, celebrating the formal entry into service of what it calls the “fastest civil aircraft since the Concorde.” Keys to the first Global 8000 were turned over to loyal customer and GFL Environmental CEO Patrick Dovigi on December 8.