AINonline
• Charles Alcock
Merlin has raised $200 million in a SPAC IPO to fund development of systems to convert existing civil and military aircraft to uncrewed operations. The company will develop autonomy software and retrofit integration packages aimed at enabling crewless missions across commercial and defense markets.
rotorhub.com
• Grace Hardy
By rotorhub.com: Rotortrade has released its Global Helicopter Market Report 2026, which indicates that the global demand for helicopters is still strong.
AINonline
• Curt Epstein
By AINonline: New terminal nearly doubles the previous one in size.
ch-aviation
By ch-aviation: Discover more news on Swiss at ch-aviation, the leading aviation news and data provider.
AINonline
• Hanneke Weitering
By AINonline: Program targets first transition flight later this year.
Skift
• Dennis Schaal
By Skift: Capital One is making a "payout" to Hopper to acquire the Hopper tech and more than 100 employees that built Capital One Travel.
Reuters
• Jonathan Stempel
By Reuters: A federal judge certified a shareholder class action accusing Boeing of concealing safety deficiencies in its 737 MAX planes before two crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019.
AINonline
• Amy Wilder
By AINonline: Intelligence monitoring covers 195 countries.
Airways Magazine
• Rick Charles
AINonline
• Charlotte Bailey
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
