AINonline
Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Ascend entered service after receiving FAA type certification in November 2025. The new Citation debuts an upgraded cabin and an integrated Garmin G5000 flightdeck as Textron begins deliveries and fleet integration of the type.
Skift
• Adriana Lee
By Skift: Travel agents are currently caught in a paradox: They’re drowning in too many systems, but fear the tools that could help them will eventually replace.
AINonline
• Curt Epstein
By AINonline: Syzygy Plasmonics’ first production facility will be in Uruguay.
Flying Magazine
• Zach Vasile
By Flying Magazine: A coalition of manufacturers, trade associations, and labor unions is throwing its support behind a transportation appropriations bill in Congress.
AINonline
• Chad Trautvetter
By AINonline: Sarasota complex will also eventually house a 110,000-sq-ft aircraft manufacturing plant.
Reuters
• Tim Hepher
By Reuters: Airbus is closing in on a deal to sell around 100 A220 jets to AirAsia , marking the budget airline's first foray into regional narrowbody aircraft, industry sources said.
FAA
By FAA: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is formalizing permanent restrictions for helicopters and powered-lift from operating in certain areas near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), unless these aircraft are conducting essential operations.
Bombardier
By Bombardier: Bombardier Global 8000, World’s Fastest Business Jet, Receives Certification from European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
AINonline
• Charlotte Bailey
