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Executive Aero Club founder Matthew Gunderson stands with one of the club’s Cirrus SR Series G7 Plus planes at the company’s hangar at Signature Aviation in Cedar Rapids. CREDIT Richard Pratt

Cedar Rapids’ Executive Aero Club helps private pilots be ready for takeoff

As Matthew Gunderson sees it, the newly-formed Executive Aero Club is not simply a members-only flight club and training school, it’s part of what he describes as the “Cirrus life” for club members. And it’s about much more, he says,…

BAE Systems to work on NASA’s electric aircraft technology demonstrator

General Electric (GE) Aviation has selected BAE Systems as the aerospace company responsible for designing,…

BAE Systems NASA research project

Iowa City Transit named ‘Most Collaborative’ for electric bus fleet

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recognized 10 transit agencies for…

Iowa City Transit electric buses

Deere & Company forms joint venture with GUSS Automation

Deere & Company has entered into a joint venture with GUSS Automation, announced Deere on…

Deere & Company, logo

Amazon, NSF give grant to UI researchers to make algorithms less discriminatory

A team of University of Iowa researchers and professors have received an $800,000 grant from…

Corridor businesses awarded assistance for summer internship programs

Gov. Kim Reynolds awarded 35 projects with $2.26 million in state grants to launch youth…

Marion company receives one of Iowa’s first Industry 4.0 grants

As president of Marion-based Woodcrafters Inc., Dan Sanderson is always working to use his 25…