AIRBUS

Airbus has reached 100 A400M deliveries with MSN111, the tenth A400M for the Spanish Air Force. The aircraft performed its ferry flight on May 24 from Seville to Zaragoza, where the Spanish A400M fleet is based. In the same week, the A400M global fleet also achieved the 100,000 flight-hours landmark performing missions worldwide for all eight customer nations.

BOEING

Boeing’s 737-10, the largest airplane in the 737 MAX family, today completed a successful first flight. On June18,2021. The flight was the start of a comprehensive test program for the 737-10. Boeing will work closely with regulators to certify the airplane prior to its scheduled entry into service in 2023. The 737-10 can carry up to 230 passengers. It also incorporates environmental improvements, cutting carbon emissions by 14 percent and reducing noise by 50 percent compared to today’s Next-Generation 737s.

Boeing and SMBC Aviation Capital announced that SMBC is positioning its portfolio for air traffic recovery by ordering 14 additional 737-8 jets, growing its 737 MAX portfolio. The new order comes as airlines prepare for a robust return to air travel and modernise their narrow body fleets to reduce fuel use and carbon emissions. In the first quarter of 2021, the lessor delivered 11 737-8s to Southwest Airlines in the US and 2 to TUI in Europe.

LOCKHEED MARTIN

The fifth Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite designed and built by Lockheed Martin headed to its orbit 12,550 miles above earth on June 17,2021. GPSIII will be three times more accurate and up to eight times improved anti-jamming capabilities; and a new L1C civil signal, which is compatible with international global navigation satellite systems, like Europe’s Galileo, to improve civilian user connectivity.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN

Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully completed the first flight of Japan’s RQ-4B Global Hawk from Palmdale, California. With an unmatched combination of range, endurance, and payload capability, Global Hawk is the only platform that provides greater data collection flexibility than space or medium-altitude assets.

RAYTHEON

Raytheon Technologies has announced that it will collaborate with GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), to develop and commercialize a new gallium nitride on silicon (GaN-on-Si) semiconductor that will enable game-changing radio frequency performance for 5G and 6G mobile and wireless infrastructure applications.

Raytheon Intelligence & Space will expand the deployment of checked baggage screening equipment to all federally managed airports nationwide under a five-year, $318 million contract. Under this contract, the scope will expand from 155 federal ports to approximately 430 federal airports across the country.