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The certification, which was announced in a ceremony in Beijing, greenlights operations and airline deliveries of the C919 airliner.

DOD will seek a national security waiver for a prohibited material that has been used in production of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II following a safety and security probe, a program spokesperson confirmed Monday.

Defense officials temporarily halted deliveries of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II after discovering that parts of the fighter jets were made from an alloy made in China, potentially in violation of DOD acquisition policy.

Air charter company 26Aviation honors the destroyed one-of-a-kind airlifter.

A 67-year-old defense contractor lied to get a security clearance and sold proprietary aviation technology information to China, according to DOJ officials.

A Chinese fighter jet “cut across the nose” of an Australian P-8 surveillance aircraft and released chaff, which was sucked into its engines, according to Australian defense officials.

China-based electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer Ehang (NASDAQ: EH) has received the largest pre-order yet for its two-seat autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV), the EH216.

A team of U.S. investigators has made the trip to China to help determine what caused last month’s fatal crash of a Boeing 737-800.

Electric, vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) developer EHang said it’s planning to win type certification in China of its 216-S two-seat, autonomous air taxi by the middle of 2022.

China aviation officials also announced there were no survivors in the tragedy, and the hundreds of recovery workers paused for three minutes in remembrance.