page_title: 2018 in aviation
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in aviation / Events / June
caption_attribution_description: English: Nasa Quiet Supersonic Technology Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator
context_page_description: This is a list of aviation-related events in 2018.
context_section_description: 4 June
  Boeing and Safran announce their 50-50 partnership to design, build and service APUs after regulatory and antitrust clearance in the second half of 2018.
  8 June
  After having gained regulatory approval, Airbus and Bombardier announce that Airbus will get a majority stake of the CSeries on 1 July 2018, leaving its main operations in Mirabel, Québec as Bombardier will fund its cash shortfalls for up to US$610 million till 2021.
  12 June
  NASA flies a 36 feet long by 66-foot (11 by 20-meter) demilitarised MQ-9 Predator for the first time through the National Airspace System with no chase aircraft and controlled from Armstrong Flight Research Center, towards unmanned aircraft operations in civil airspace.
  14 June
  Along a larger and modernised delivery centre, Airbus inaugurates its fourth Hamburg A320 production line, with two seven-axis robots to drill 80% of fuselage upper side holes, autonomous mobile tooling platforms and following Design Thinking principles.
  Rolls-Royce plc announces its restructuring, cutting 4,600 jobs to save £400m per year by 2020. Two-thirds of the cuts will happen in Britain where 26,000 work including 15,700 at the Derby headquarters among 55,000 worldwide.
  19 June
  FedEx orders 12 Boeing 767Fs to be delivered between June 2019 and May 2022 and 12 B777Fs to be delivered from June 2020 to May 2025, for a $6.6 billion list price.
  26 June
  The US Air Force informed NASA it had assigned the X-59 QueSST designation to the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator.
  28 June
  After failing to place two A380s, lessor Dr. Peters should decide to tear them down over two years for $80 million per aircraft.
caption: The NASA Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator is named X-59 QueSST
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