Civilian Aircrafts

Boeing

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Public (NYSE: BA)

Boeing is one of the world's largest aerospace companies, spanning commercial airplanes, defense and space systems, and aftermarket services. After a deeply disrupted 2024, Boeing improved materially through 2025 and into 2026: it delivered 600 commercial aircraft in 2025, then opened 2026 with 143 commercial deliveries, $22.2B of Q1 revenue across all three segments, a record $695B total backlog, and a narrower core loss. The company completed the Spirit AeroSystems reacquisition in December 2025, and in May 2026 confirmed it had passed the FAA capstone review to lift 737 MAX output to 47 jets per month. Boeing remains one of the two central global commercial-jet manufacturers alongside Airbus, with its near-term trajectory hinging on the 737 ramp, 777X certification, and sustained progress on safety and quality reforms.

Airbus

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Public (EPA: AIR)

Airbus is Europe's largest aerospace company, spanning commercial aircraft, helicopters, defence and space. In civil aviation it remains Boeing's only true peer at global scale and is pairing near-term production growth with longer-term work on lower-carbon aircraft technologies, future single-aisle designs and hydrogen propulsion. The company combines a mature global airliner business with broader aerospace capabilities across defence, space and rotorcraft. Q1 2026 was unusually weak — 114 deliveries (vs. 136 a year earlier), revenue down 7% to EUR 12.65B and adjusted EBIT halved to EUR 300M due to Pratt & Whitney engine shortages and Chinese delivery disruptions — but Airbus reaffirmed full-year 2026 guidance of ~870 deliveries, EUR 7.5B adjusted EBIT and EUR 4.5B free cash flow, with a record commercial backlog above 9,000 aircraft. Output recovered strongly through mid-year: official figures reported July 10 showed 351 deliveries in H1 2026 (up ~15% YoY), Airbus's best first half since 2019.

COMAC

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State-Owned Enterprise

COMAC (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China) is China's state-owned commercial aircraft manufacturer and the core vehicle for the country's indigenous airliner program. Its current aircraft family spans the in-service C909 regional jet, the in-service C919 narrow-body, and the C929 wide-body now in detailed design. COMAC has moved beyond a symbolic national program into real airline operations, customer support, and early export expansion in Southeast Asia — including Air Cambodia's headline 10+10 C909 commitment in 2025 — making it China's first credible attempt to build a full commercial-aircraft OEM, even as 2026 deliveries continue to lag ambitious airline expectations.

Hermeus

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Private

Hermeus is a defense aviation company focused on rapidly designing, building, and flight-testing high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft for national-security missions. Its Quarterhorse program is progressing through a series of unmanned demonstrators to unlock high-speed flight — Mk 2.1 reached Mach 1.21 on May 26, 2026 in its third flight from Spaceport America, becoming the first privately-developed unmanned supersonic jet — and the Chimera engine architecture underpins Darkhorse, the reusable hypersonic UAS Hermeus aims to field for defense customers. The company is now backed by a $1B post-money valuation, a $350M Series C closed in April 2026, and a Defense Innovation Unit contract scaled to a $219M ceiling in late May 2026 to demonstrate high-Mach flight and high-speed payload release at speeds up to Mach 3. In a May 2026 leadership transition effective June 1, 2026, president Zach Shore became CEO while co-founder AJ Piplica moved to executive chairman.

Boom Supersonic

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Private

Boom Supersonic is building Overture, a 60-80 seat Mach 1.7 supersonic airliner aimed at restoring commercial supersonic travel on 600+ routes at business-class economics. After XB-1 became the first independently developed jet to fly supersonic in 2025, Boom pivoted in late 2025 to make the Symphony engine and its Superpower 42 MW industrial-gas-turbine derivative the near-term commercial focus — CEO Blake Scholl said in April 2026 that roughly 90% of company efforts are now on propulsion, with Symphony and Superpower sharing about 80% of hardware. Boom has nearly $1B in funding, a 130-aircraft Overture order book from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines, and a $1.25B+ launch backlog for Superpower with Crusoe, while its $50M Greensboro Overture Superfactory currently sits idle ahead of a December 31, 2026 lease-termination threshold tied to a 500-employee benchmark.

Heart Aerospace

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Private

Heart Aerospace is developing the ES-30, a 30-seat clean-sheet hybrid-electric regional aircraft for short-haul routes from smaller airports. Founded in Sweden and now headquartered in El Segundo, California, the company is following an iterative development path built around the Heart X1 and X2 prototypes while bringing more of its batteries, actuation systems, software, and hybrid-electric hardware in-house. In late May 2026 the all-electric X1 demonstrator completed low-speed taxi testing at Plattsburgh International Airport in New York, advancing its ground-test campaign toward FAA special airworthiness certification and a first flight still targeted for 2026. Heart says it has raised $185M to date, secured 250 aircraft orders plus 120 options and purchase rights, and is targeting ES-30 type certification in 2029.