FutureFlight

07/11/2025

Vet Airways, a new Cambodian start-up, plans to connect Southeast Asian coastal communities using Elfly’s electric Noemi aircraft.

On July 9, the spinoff from transportation group Vireak Buntham Express signed a memorandum of understanding with the Norwegian manufacturer covering the purchase of five aircraft in a deal potentially valued at $50 million.

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07/10/2025

ERC System is preparing to start flight testing with a full-mass technology demonstrator for its multi-role aircraft.

The German company is completing assembly of a second version of the Romeo vehicle as it advances ambitions to bring it to market in 2030.

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07/10/2025

Dutch aerial services operator Zeusch Aviation is exploring plans to retrofit its Beechcraft King Air fleet with hybrid-electric propulsion systems being developed by Dovetail Electric Aviation.

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07/10/2025

Vertiport developer Skyports Infrastructure has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ajman Transport Authority to collaborate on “smart aerial transport infrastructure,” laying the foundation for eVTOL air taxi services in the emirate.

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07/09/2025

To help the aviation industry reduce its climate impact, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have developed a tool that they claim will enable operators to make smarter flight decisions.

Simply reducing aircraft fuel burn is not necessarily the greenest strategy

07/08/2025

A pair of railway companies and Suzuki Motor Corporation have backed a pre-Series D funding round that raised a further $57 million for Japanese eVTOL aircraft manufacturer SkyDrive.

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07/07/2025

Ascendance expects to complete the assembly of the first full-scale prototype of its Atea hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft by early 2026.

This model will feature the latest iteration of the French start-up’s Sterna propulsion system, which has been refined over the past two years with extensive evaluation on an iron bird testbed.

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07/06/2025

VoltAero has reached an agreement with a pair of prospective new investors who will support plans to build its Cassio family of hybrid-electric regional aircraft in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.

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07/06/2025

Archer Aviation has begun test flights with its Midnight eVTOL prototype at Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi, marking its first flights outside the U.S.

Flight test operations in the UAE will focus on evaluating the aircraft’s performance in hot, humid, and dusty conditions, where temperatures were close to 100-deg F this week.

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07/02/2025

Natilus has revealed the interior design for its Horizon blended-wing-body airliner, a 200-seat aircraft that the company says could compete with the popular Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320neo families of narrowbodies in the early 2030s.

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07/02/2025

The U.S. Army is going to explore the potential benefits of hybrid-electric propulsion under the scope of a $1.9 million Small Business Innovation Research contract it awarded to Electra Aero.

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07/01/2025

Eve Air Mobility has signed letters of intent covering potential sales of 50 more of its four-passenger eVTOL aircraft that could be operated in Costa Rica.

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