After a fire destroyed the original facility in 2015, Dowty Propellers has inaugurated a new 183,000-sq. ft. building near Gloucester at Brockworth's Gloucester Business Park. The new facility in Brockworth, England provides a modern operation for the company's development, manufacture and support of state-of-the-art propeller systems with all-composite blades.

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The European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) is taking place this week in Geneva, Switzerland. EBACE is not be the biggest aviation show of the summer but generates major announcements in the business and general aviation sector.

In two years, GE Aviation’s Advanced Turboprop has been designed, developed and is now closing in on its first engine run in record time. ATP will be the first clean-sheet turboprop engine to hit the Business and General Aviation (BGA) market in more than 30 years.

More than 300,000 people and 10,000 planes will invade Oshkosh, Wisconsin this week for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual week long AirVenture fly-in. Not only is it massive–the largest of its kind in the world–but it’s also one of the most unique.

Supersonic flight, turboprops and 3-D printing dominated headlines this week for GE Aviation during the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) held in Geneva, Switzerland.

General Electric and the government of the Czech Republic signed an investment agreement to build GE’s new turboprop headquarters outside the capital, Prague. The investment will double GE Aviation’s in-country employment.

Feeding a world expected to house 9 billion people by 2050, poses huge challenges for global food security. Agricultural aviation can help.

GE unveiled a new advanced turboprop engine yesterday that produces 10 percent more power than its peers and burns 20 percent less fuel.