AeroTime
• Stephen Pope
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Greg Mercer is backing Skytron, a four-seat fly-by-wire personal aircraft designed to reduce pilot workload and prevent human-error accidents. Skytron centres on automated flight controls and pilot-assist systems to make personal flying safer for less-experienced operators.
AINonline
• Curt Epstein
By AINonline: Syzygy Plasmonics’ first production facility will be in Uruguay.
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
By AINonline: Aircraft received FAA certification in November 2025.
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.
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.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
