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News about environmental issues relating to aircraft operations, including noise issues, emissisions, and regulations. See Fuel for biofuel.

Aircraft

Airbus Commits to Hydrogen Airliners Entering Service in 2035

Airbus unveiled three concepts for the aircraft, which could carry between 100 and 200 passengers on flights of up to around 2,000 nm.
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Aircraft

Conversion Plan Set To Promote Early Switch to Hydrogen Fuel

Universal Hydrogen proposes converting Dash 8 and ATR 42 regional airliners to hydrogen power while avoiding the need for costly refueling infrastructure.
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Charter & Fractional

EBAA Survey Highlights Business Travel Expectations

More than half of responses to an EBAA survey see growth in business travel over the next five years, and many expect progress with electric aviation.
Environment

Bizav SAF Summit Examines Increasing Supply and Demand

The Business Aviation Coalition for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF Coalition) hosted its first Sustainable Business Aviation Fuels Summit this week.
Environment

Gulfstream Re-ups SAF Supply Contract with World Fuel

Gulfstream has extended the contract with World Fuel Services to continue providing the OEM with a steady supply of sustainable aviation fuel.
Environment

Avfuel Makes First Flight Department SAF Shipment

Avfuel delivered its first shipment of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on request from a corporate flight department last week.
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Environment

Signature Announces Permanent SAF Supplies at Two FBOs

Signature Flight Support launched its new Signature Renew industry sustainability program, Signature Renew, which focuses on SAF availablity.
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Environment

Key House, DOT Leaders Addressing SAF Virtual Summit

House aviation subcommittee Chair Rick Larsen and Ranking Republican Garret Graves (Louisiana) are among leaders addressing in the Virtual SAF Summit.
Environment

Public Hearing Set on EPA Aircraft Emissions Proposal

The EPA is holding a virtual public hearing to be held on September 17 to discuss its proposed greenhouse gas emission standards for large airplanes.
Environment

FAA To Develop Expanded Air Tour Management Program

The FAA has ended its previously initiated processes for the development of air tour management plans for some national parks.
Environment

Airbus Signs Partners for Fello’fly Environmental Project

SAS, Frenchbee and three ANSPs agree to participate in Airbus’s latest project aimed at reducing fuel burn.
Aircraft

Connect Skies Broker To Focus on Sustainable Aircraft

Veteran broker Gabriella Somerville is launching Connect Skies to promote more sustainable business aircraft and charter operations.
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Environment

Textron Aviation Deliveries To Include Tank of SAF

Textron Aviation will also offer SAF to customers of its Wichita service center.
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Aircraft

Faradair's Hybrid Electric Aircraft Finds Fresh Impetus in New Duxford Home

After almost abandoning the UK for the U.S., Faradair is staying on home turf to step up plans to get its BEHA hybrid-electric to market by 2024.
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Environment

Bizav Industry To Hold Online SAF Summit Next Month

The Business Aviation Coalition for Sustainable Aviation Fuel will sponsor its first two-day online summit next month.
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Charter & Fractional

Vertical Aerospace Unveils VA-1X Fixed Wing eVTOL

The all-electric VA-1X aircraft is expected to enter service in 2024 and will be able to carry four passengers up to 100 miles at speeds of around 150 mph.
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Engines

Self-charging Diamond Batteries Set To Power Aircraft

NDB says its self-charging nano diamond batteries will be far more efficient than current technologies and will not require any supporting infrastructure.
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Aircraft

Latest Boeing ecoDemonstrator Flies to Montana for Trials

An Etihad Airways 787-10 will undergo two and a half weeks of environmental testing before flying to Abu Dhabi.
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Environment

AINsight: In Search of a Sustainable Future

The newly updated Fueling the Future: Sustainable Aviation Fuel Guide is a timely reminder of steady environmental progress and opportunities ahead.
Environment

Air bp, Neste To Increase European SAF Deliveries

Air bp and sustainable fuel producer Neste have inked an agreement to increase the flow of SAF over the coming year.
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Environment

California FBO Receives First SAF Load

ACI Jet took its first load of SAF at its John Wayne-Orange Couny Airport facility this week.
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Environment

European Companies Partner on Composite Recycling

Aerocircular has partnered with the UK’s ELG Carbon Fibre to develop more viable methods to reclaim composite material for recycling.
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Environment

Phillips 66 Goes In on Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Phillips 66 is planning to fully convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California from crude oil processing to renewable fuels.
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Aircraft

MTU Teams with DLR To Advance Hydrogen Fuel Cells

MTU Aero Engines and Germany's DLR aerospace research center intend to flight test a hydrogen-powered version of a Dornier Do228 aircraft.
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Charter & Fractional

XO Rolls Out Carbon-offset Plan

The private lift provider has introduced a carbon-offset option for its customers.
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Environment

NY North Shore Helo Route Extended to 2022

The FAA has extended the rule requiring pilots operating civil helicopters under VFR to use the New York North Shore helicopter route to Aug. 5, 2022.
Aircraft

MagniX Sees Regional Operators as Electric Aviation Pioneers

Electric propulsion specialist MagniX is stepping up flight testing of electric versions of the Cessna Caravan and DHC-2 Beaver.
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Aircraft

AINdebrief Episode 20 | August 8, 2020

Covid Lowers Aircraft Emissions, WingX Bizav Data, Beechcraft King Air 360, Aspen Avionics Joins Airo, Bombardier 2Q, FAA Releases 737 Max Recert Road Map
Environment

Dip in Flight Activity Cut CO2 Emissions By 70 Percent in Europe

Data gathered from Spire's satellites showed a 43 percent reduction in flights, resulting in a cut in carbon dioxide emissions of just over 70 percent.
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Aircraft

EmbraerX Starts Simulator Tests for New eVTOL Aircraft

EmbraerX is stepping up development of a four-seat, all-electric eVTOL, while also preparing a concept of operations for urban air traffic management.
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