Aircraft Manufacturing News
Latest Aircraft Manufacturing news and analysis — 28 articles tagged Aircraft Manufacturing on The Robotics Media.
- Anduril's YFQ-44A Fury Fit-Checks Air-to-Ground Munitions for USAF — — Anduril has revealed that its YFQ-44A Fury Collaborative Combat Aircraft has completed fit-checks with a full family of air-to-ground weapons, expandi...
- Otto Aerospace's Phantom 3500 Wins Fast Company Innovation By Design Award — — Otto Aerospace's laminar-flow Phantom 3500 clean-sheet business jet took a 2026 Fast Company Innovation by Design Award as the company advances toward...
- Archer Aviation Launches 'No Roads' Flight Tour Ahead Of LA28 And White House Pilot — — Archer Aviation kicked off its multi-state 'No Roads' Midnight flight tour on September 3, starting in Northern California ahead of the White House's...
- EHang EH216-S Completes First Public Pilotless Flight In Hong Kong Cyberport — — EHang's EH216-S became the first pilotless passenger eVTOL to fly publicly in Hong Kong, taking off from the Cyberport waterfront vertiport on August...
- AVIC's Fengxing-001 Humanoid Robot Takes On Aircraft Ops At WRC 2026 — — China's state aerospace giant AVIC debuted the Fengxing-001, a 1.8-meter humanoid built to handle aircraft maintenance, missile loading and even simul...
- SpaceX Sets 72nd Starlink Flight Of 2026 With Cape Canaveral 10-19 Mission — — SpaceX is set to launch 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 this week aboard booster B1085 on its 18th flight — the 72...
- AE Industrial Closes $845M L3Harris Carve-Out To Relaunch Rocketdyne — — AE Industrial Partners closed its $845M acquisition of L3Harris' commercial space propulsion, power and electronics units on August 4, spinning them o...
- Uganda Airlines Books First-Ever Boeing Order For 737 MAX 8 And 787-9 Dreamliners — — Uganda Airlines will buy four 737-8s and four 787-9s in its first-ever direct Boeing order, using the new fleet to grow African, Middle East and long-...
- Airbus Launches Three-Year A321neo Flight Test For Wing Of Tomorrow — — Airbus used Farnborough International Airshow 2026 to unveil a three-year A321neo flight test campaign for its Wing of Tomorrow high-span wing program...
- Pratt & Whitney's NextGen2 GTF Will Adopt CMCs and Composite Fan Blades — — Pratt & Whitney is bringing ceramic matrix composites and composite fan blades — technologies GE pioneered on the LEAP — into its NextGen2 GTF, as CFM...
- Aeromexico Picks Honeywell SURF-A Runway-Collision Alerts For 100+ 737 Fleet — — Aeromexico plans to become a launch operator of Honeywell Aerospace's SURF-A surface alerts, deploying the runway-collision prevention system across i...
- IndiGo Signs Record 1,000-Plus LEAP-1A MoU With CFM At Farnborough 2026 — — IndiGo has signed a landmark MoU with CFM International for more than 1,000 LEAP-1A engines to power 510 A320neo family jets, plus a new India MRO fac...
- Riyadh Air Locks In 28 More Boeing 787s, Converts 20 To Stretched 787-10 — — Saudi Arabia's new flag carrier firms up 28 additional Boeing 787 Dreamliners at Farnborough 2026 and switches 20 of them to the larger 787-10 variant...
- Boeing Wins Philippine Airlines Order For Up To 20 787-10 Dreamliners At Farnborough — — PAL commits to 15 firm plus 5 optional Boeing 787-10s at Farnborough, its first Boeing order in two decades and largest widebody commitment ever.
- British Airways Picks Pratt & Whitney GTF For Up To 63 Airbus A320neos — — BA opens Farnborough by choosing the GTF over CFM's LEAP-1A to power 33 firm and 30 optional A320neo jets, with a 12-year EngineWise service deal atta...
- BOC Aviation Firms Up 300 CFM LEAP Engines In Largest-Ever Order At Farnborough — — The Singapore-based lessor kicks off the 2026 Farnborough Airshow with a 200 LEAP-1A + 100 LEAP-1B split, its biggest engine transaction ever.
- Honeywell Wins Historic 810-Aircraft IndiGo Deal At Farnborough — — IndiGo has picked Honeywell Aerospace to supply avionics and 131-9A auxiliary power units for its 810 incoming Airbus A320neo family jets, the largest...
- Boeing And Airbus Race To Lock Down SMBC's 100-Jet Narrowbody Order At Farnborough — — One of the marquee deals of Farnborough 2026 lands in Hampshire this week: Dublin-based lessor SMBC Aviation Capital is close to committing to about 1...
- UK, Italy And Japan Sign £4.6B GCAP Contract With Edgewing For Sixth-Gen Fighter — — The trilateral GCAP Agency has awarded Edgewing a £4.6 billion 18-month development contract, funding the next design and assessment phase of the Temp...
- Elroy Air to List on Nasdaq at $1B via SPAC to Scale Chaparral Cargo Drone — — Elroy Air will go public through a merger with Columbus Circle Capital Corp II at roughly $1 billion enterprise value, adding $165M in PIPE to scale i...