The Barbie Jet is an overpowered oddity with some excellent design features. But, this extremely innovative jet features an extremely serious design flaw (if it were turned into a full-scale aircraft) ...

Piper developed a single-engine Very Light Jet (VLJ) that integrated its engine into the vertical stabilizer, aiming for a simpler design with clean airflow and protection from hot exhaust. The ...

XTI is designing the TriFan 600 to become the first commercially certified high-speed, long-range vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) airplane. XTI Aircraft, a Denver, Colorado-based aerospace startup ...

XTI is designing the TriFan 600 to become the first commercially certified high-speed, long-range vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) airplane. XTI Aircraft, a Denver, Colorado-based aerospace startup ...

Crowdfunding is usually associated with consumer goods like smartwatches and drones, but XTI Aircraft Company of Denver, Colorado is hoping to score a double first with its TriFan 600. Pitched as the ...

XTI Aircraft, a Denver, Colorado-based aerospace startup firm, launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Tuesday to raise $50 million to fund the production of the TriFan 600, a six-seat fixed wing ...

The ongoing economic malaise in the business aviation market is imperiling Piper Aircraft’s single-jet program, the PiperJet Altaire, and consequently helped spur a management shakeup at the top. The ...

Piper Aircraft says it has all first-tier suppliers under contract to produce the company's $2.5 million Altaire single-engined jet, including Michigan-based Global Tooling Systems (GTS), a subsidiary ...

Visitors to the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in Atlanta in October got the first public look at the results of a major transformation from the original proof-of-concept ...

Piper Aircraft Inc. on Tuesday announced it will be offering discounted costs for some current customers interested in upgrading to the PiperJet Altaire. © 2025 ...

Piper Aircraft today is introducing its evolved and renamed PiperJet Altaire, showing a mockup of the redesigned fuselage and cabin interior and describing The newly named Piper Altaire has abandoned ...