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The long-awaited crewed debut of Boeing’s Starliner caps off a 13-year effort to certify multiple commercial providers of low-Earth-orbit astronaut transport.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

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Air Canada is working to lease Boeing 737-8s for additional lift in 2025, as it contends with a tight capacity environment.

Lufthansa is anticipating further delays of its first Boeing 777-9 deliveries and now does not expect the first one to come until 2026, CEO Jens Ritter said.

IndiGo's A350 order highlights how Boeing is slipping behind in the region that holds the greatest potential for commercial aviation in the coming decades.

The OEM’s two-decade experiment in remote management has failed.

Cancellation of the U.S. Army’s scout helicopter program is driving focus on UAS and uncrewed teaming.

Large suppliers maintain cautious optimism that production-line struggles will be short-lived and are not a precursor to lower long-term production rate targets

Steep costs, capacity swings and Boeing woes compounded an already seasonally challenging quarter for U.S. airlines.

Boeing never built the 7J7, but its legacy continues to be felt to this day. Listen in to hear how technology once studied for that program could re-emerge on the company’s next new airplane almost 40 years later.

Lockheed’s road map to victory provides clues for the sixth-generation combat aircraft program.

Despite a comfortable backlog, the country’s industry continues to grapple with financial woes and recovering know-how.

Boeing has bought back the St. Louis defense aircraft factory it once owned but was most recently under the GKN Aerospace brand.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) a $13 billion contract for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC).

Bombardier, Embraer, and Gulfstream have shown new aircraft can be developed at reasonable prices.

Supply chain problems with different root causes will keep output below previous forecasts for much of 2024, as 737 challenges draw more scrutiny.

COVID-19 wiped out six years of growth and hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value.

Southwest's expected deliveries of Boeing 737-8s in 2024 have plummeted by 59 aircraft as it faces cost pressure from higher labor and maintenance expenses.

NASA and Boeing on April 25 completed the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for the long-awaited CST-100 Starliner crewed flight test (CFT).

American now expects to take delivery of 22 new mainline aircraft in 2024, down from its prior estimates of 29—or four fewer MAXs and three fewer 787s.

Airbus is raising production of its A350 widebody further to 12 aircraft per month despite the current supply chain constraints that show no signs of easing.

Boeing will in the coming weeks deliver the first procurement the heavy-lift CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters to the U.S. Army.

Boeing ended the first quarter of 2024 owing consolidated net debt worth $40.4 billion, up from the $36.3 billion it owed at the end of 2023.

Nearly flawless fuselages and a sufficient supply of heat exchangers are the two key pacing items determining Boeing’s monthly output of 737s and 787s.