JEC World 2024: Daher demonstrates its technological achievements in the field of advanced composites for aeronautics

Paris

At this week’s JEC World 2024 show, Daher is highlighting the company’s advances in aerostructures produced with advanced composites, including a full-scale torsion box demonstrator for aircraft, which was produced using welded thermoplastics. During JEC World (March 5-7 at the Paris-Nord Villepinte convention center), Daher and its Dutch subsidiary KVE are displaying their latest research …

JEC WORLD 2024: Daher prepares the next generation of aircraft

At the JEC World 2024 show, Daher and its KVE subsidiary are presenting their latest R&D achievements for the next generation of aircraft. In the spotlight this year: a full-scale welded thermoplastic torsion box demonstrator, which underscores Daher’s advances and ambitions in the field of advanced composite aerostructures for the future. The 2024 edition of …

Preparing aviation’s future: Daher and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association renew their international internship

Tarbes, France; Washington, D.C.

For the second consecutive year, Daher and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) have partnered on an international internship program that identifies and encourages promising industry leaders of the future. Daher’s Kodiak aircraft production facility in Sandpoint, Idaho (at left) is one of two locations where students will gain experience in the 2024 Daher/GAMA international …

Daher accelerates its “Take Off 2027” strategic plan 

Paris, France

With a revenue of 1.65 billion euros in 2023, Daher today announced financial results for the year that are in line with the objectives of its five-year “Take Off 2027” strategic plan, which covers the 2023-2027 timeframe.  One year after the launch of this strategic plan, the Daher Group has achieved significant progress – notably …

Daher announces two new management appointments for its business activity and the company’s Executive Committee  

Paris

Daher is pleased to announce two top management appointments for the leadership of its business activity, involving personalities from within the company who already have been very involved in the implementation of its “Take Off 2027” strategic plan. These managers also are joining the Daher Executive Committee: Cédric Eloy heads up the Industrial Services Division …

Daher’s 100th TBM 960 turboprop-powered aircraft is delivered to a first-time TBM owner in the United States

Camarillo, California

Daher today announced the delivery of its 100th TBM 960, which was provided to a Californian businessman who is stepping up from a piston-engine airplane to this top-of-the-line member of the high-speed, turboprop-powered TBM aircraft family. The milestone TBM 960 was received by Kevin Kaseff, the President of Titan Real Estate Investment Group, Inc. – a …

The EcoPulse aircraft demonstrator makes first hybrid-electric flight

Tarbes, France

EcoPulse, the hybrid-electric distributed propulsion aircraft demonstrator jointly developed by Daher, Safran and Airbus to support aviation’s decarbonization roadmap, has successfully performed its first flight test in hybrid-electric mode. The demonstrator flew with its ePropellers activated, powered by a battery and a turbogenerator. EcoPulse took off from Tarbes Airport[1] on November 29, at 10:32 hrs …

A new Kodiak aircraft paint facility enters service at theSandpoint, Idaho production site of Daher’s Aircraft Division

Sandpoint, Idaho

Daher’s Aircraft Division has inaugurated a large new paint facility at its Kodiak Aircraft Company production site in Sandpoint, Idaho, marking the latest investment since Daher’s acquisition of the Kodiak utility airplane product line in 2019. The 9,000-sq-ft. facility streamlines Sandpoint’s overall production process and further improves the build quality for this multi-role single-engine turboprop …

Daher marks an aviation milestone with its delivery of the 500thTBM 900-series highly efficient turboprop-powered aircraft

Las Vegas, Nevada

Daher today announced its delivery of the 500th TBM 900-series aircraft, underscoring the continued global market demand for this best-selling family in the highly efficient and fast TBM turboprop-powered product line. This accomplishment was detailed during Daher’s press conference at the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The milestone aircraft …