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January 16, 2013
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems said it delivered the first integrated nationwide Internet Protocol (IP)-based air traffic management (ATM) system to provide voice communications for all aircraft operating in Urugay. Park...January 16, 2013
FAA officials along with representatives from aviation manufacturing companies, pilot and flight attendant groups, airlines and mobile technology experts held their first meeting Tuesday to study FAA’s policies regulating use of portable electronic devices (PEDs) on commercial airline flights. The agency’s current...January 15, 2013
Duncan Aviation, based in Lincoln, Neb., has partnered with Universal Avionics, of Tucson, Ariz., to install and certify an advanced cockpit for the Dassault Falcon 900B, the companies said Tuesday. This cockpit upgrade replaces 25 older instruments and will have five high-resolution Universal EFI-890R LED backlit LCD displays, including Engine Indication that will replace the analog gauges...January 15, 2013
Golden Myanmar Airlines, which began operations at the start of this year, will be using the navigation charts provided by Lufthansa Systems' Lido/RouteManual systems, under a five-year contract announced Tuesday. The Lufthansa Systems navigation charts are...January 15, 2013
Level 3 Communications B.V. — affiliate of Level 3 Communications — signed a contract with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) to install an IP Virtual Private Network for the NATO-Russia Council Cooperative Airspace Initiative (NRC CAI), an information exchange to...January 14, 2013
Northrop Grumman and EADS subsidiary Cassidian conducted the first successful test flight of the Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The six-hour test flight occurred over Germany’s Manching Air Base, and allowed the two companies to test the aircraft’s signals intelligence...January 14, 2013
Delta Air Lines released its new Fly Delta iPad app, which allows customers on commercial flights to see exactly where the airplane is and how fast it is traveling. The “glass bottom jet” feature offers a view of the plane flying over an interactive map, with social network integration that...January 14, 2013
Brazilian carrier TAM Airlines has selected U.K.-based IFE Services to begin providing in-flight entertainment services in March. IFE said it would be providing audiovisual on-demand (AVOD) and overhead...January 10, 2013
The U.S. Air Force is teaming up with engineers from Sandia National Laboratories to test the capabilities of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) equipped with radiation sensors to collect airborne radioactive particles for analysis. Harvester is Sandia’s airborne particulate-collection system that demonstrated the ability to fly through radiation over a broad range of altitudes during test flights on an...January 10, 2013
British Airways has selected Honeywell’s Next Generation flight management system to boost navigation database capacity for its fleet of Boeing 747s. Honeywell said its NextGen system reduces the need for step climbing approaches at...January 10, 2013
Northrop Grumman issued a $33 million contract to Telephonics Corp. to develop a multimode maritime radar system for the U.S.Navy’s fleet of MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Telephonics will develop a...January 9, 2013
Rockwell Collins recently completed the first installation of the ARC-210 Gen5 radio on an HH-60G Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) helicopter for the U.S. Air Force Air National Guard (ANG). The company said the first HH-60G modification was completed on schedule at the Rockwell Collins Aircraft Certification Center at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. The modification included installing four...January 9, 2013
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) to Blue Sky Network for the installation of its voice system on C-212-200 Airbus military aircraft. The STC covers Blue...January 9, 2013
Esterline CMC Electronics has recently been awarded a contract by Public Works and Government Services Canada for the avionics upgrade of the Canadian Department of National Defense (DND) fleet of five Airbus CC-150 (A310) Polaris aircraft. This program entails an upgrade of the legacy avionics equipment with CMC'sCMA-9000 Flight Management Systems (FMS) with vertical navigation functionality and GPS Wide...January 7, 2013
FAA issued a supplemental type certificate (STC) to Phoenix-based Cutter Aviation on Dec. 20 for the installation of the Garmin 950 glass cockpit panel package retrofit on older Piper Meridian aircraft. The Garmin 950 retrofit will allow owners of older model Piper Meridian jets to meet NextGen airspace requirements...January 7, 2013
The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded a $31.7 million contract to Cobham to provide the AN/ALQ-99 low band transmitter-antenna group...January 4, 2013
The newly passed “fiscal cliff” deal delays the $1.2 trillion across-the-board federal budget cuts until March, keeping the U.S. aerospace community awaiting final action from Congress and the President to either avoid or enact the cuts. President Barack Obama signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 into law Wednesday, raising taxes on top earning Americans and avoiding the worst...January 4, 2013
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in a Report and Order released last week, approved new rules to accelerate the deployment of in-flight Wi-Fi on more commercial flights in the United States. The FCC shares regulation of in-flight connectivity with FAA, and has allowed companies to offer the services on an ad hoc basis since 2001. The newly formed rules will allow...January 2, 2013
FLYHT Aerospace Solutions signed a contract with an undisclosed Nigerian airline for the Automated Information Reporting System (AFIRS) 220. The contract requires FLYHT to install the AFIRS 220 on five Airbus A319s and A320s for a domestic operator in Nigeria...December 31, 2012
L-3 Platform Integration received a second Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 747-8 for completion at its VIP and Head- of-State Completion Center in Waco, Texas, where the company will install a VVIP interior for a confidential customer. The company said the arrival of the aircraft makes it the first completion center in the world to...
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