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PMA stands for Parts Manufactural Approval and is a design and production approval for modification and replacement parts. It allows a manufacturer to produce and sell these parts for installation on Type Certificate products. More commonly, PMA parts are an alternative to OEM parts which are generally more expensive. OEM’s prices increase : Rising maintenance

Aviation sector has been shaken up by the impact of the global pandemic, businesses have struggled and continue to do so. MRO’s are struggling to plan effective long term maintenance as Airlines and operators feel the burn of reducing flying programs. COVID-19 hit all the stages of the MRO market. Nearly 18 months later, businesses

While the Covid crisis did a lot of damage to the airline industry, one and a half years later, we are starting to see the end of the tunnel and hopes are rising again. Indeed, whether it is at the level of domestic or international flights, the sanitary restrictions have put many barriers and the

In Flight Entertainment is about the entertainment available to passengers during a flight. It all started by the airship Hindenburg, which offered a piano, a lounge, a dining room, a smoking room and a bar in 1936, during a two-day flight between Europe and America. Nowadays, the expectations of the passengers changed a bit. One

An A350 cargo version is the latest development from European aircraft manufacturer Airbus to attack a market where it is not yet present, unlike its rival Boeing. Cargo traffic is the only sector of the aeronautics industry that is doing better than before the pandemic. Few people know this, but a large portion of air

Airbus, Daher and Safran announced their collaboration at the 2019 Paris Air Show, which is part of their innovation strategy.  This collaboration aims to develop EcoPulseTM a hybrid propulsion aircraft demonstrator, with the support of CORAC (Council for Civil Aeronautics Research). The demonstrator has already passed the Preliminary Design Review, a key first step in

VoltAero is a French company that is developing the Cassio, a hybrid aircraft that would be ready in 2023, and available in three versions of four, six, and ten seats. VoltAero’s vision is to take electric aircraft to a whole new level.  As an experienced company, VoltAero is developing a general aviation aircraft with hybrid-electric

ZeroAvia aims to develop a hydrogen-fueled powertrain technology to compete with conventional engines in propeller light aircrafts at the moment, and to be closer to zero-emission with less noise. ZeroAvia is a British/American hydrogen-electric aircraft developer. Valery Miftakhov is the CEO of the company, created in 2017. The aim of ZeroAvia is to develop a

Aerostructures are the parts of an aircraft that make up its structure: wing, fuselage, empennage, engine mounts. A few companies are driving this sector. The main aerostructure manufacturers are the Americans Spirit AeroSystems and Triumph Group, the British GKN, the Japanese Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, the Airbus group subsidiaries Stelia Aerospace and