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October 31, 2012
StandardAero Business Aviation and TrueNorth Avionics announced a new partnership to pursue the development of STCs for business jets from all major OEMs. The new partnership was announced at the 2012 NBAA conference...October 30, 2012
Duncan Aviation partnered with Flightcraft in the opening of a new satellite avionics shop in Portland, Ore. The new Duncan Aviation avionics shop in Portland will open later this fall and will be located on the Portland International Airport at 7777 NE Airport Way. It will be staffed with fully certified...October 30, 2012
Honeywell Aerospace signed an agreement to make OnAir the distributor of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Ka-band aircraft connectivity services to the business and general aviation community. The five-year agreement was signed at the 2012...October 30, 2012
Cobham plc combined its acquired Danish satcom company Thrane & Thrane with its own satellite business unit to create a new strategic business unit (SBU), Cobham SATCOM. Thrane & Thrane CEO Walther Thygesen will lead the new Denmark-based Cobham SATCOM...October 30, 2012
StandardAero announced new service agreements signed at the 2012 NBAA meeting for Embraer and Boeing aircraft. The Tempe, Ariz.-based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company signed an installation...October 29, 2012
Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support (GCS) and Rockwell Collins said flight testing has begun for the program to offer Rockwell Collins’ Pro Line Fusion avionics suite as an aftermarket option to all in-service Beechcraft King Air Pro Line 21-equipped aircraft Certification for the initial King Air application is expected by the end of 2013 with entry into service in early 2014...October 29, 2012
Colombian charter airline SEARCA will be the launch customer for a fleet of Beechcraft 1900D aircraft retrofitted with an STC Garmin G950 glass panel technology package from AMI Aviation Services. AMI said it expects the G950 avionics...October 29, 2012
Hawker Beechcraft announced the sale of its first Pro Line 21-equipped Hawker 800XPR on the first day of the NBAA convention to Nordic charter and management company JoinJet. The upgraded 800XPR is certified by FAA and EASA, and features a...October 29, 2012
Jet Linx, an Omaha, Neb.-based private jet company, has selected the WSI Pilotbrief Optima for the iPad as its mobile weather flight planning solution...October 29, 2012
Rockwell Collins’ Ascend Aircraft Information Manager (AIM) was recently certified for Cessna CJ1+, CJ2+, CJ3, CJ4 and Hawker Beechcraft B200 Series King Air aircraft. AIM uploads flight critical database updates, and downloads maintenance information post-flight using available Wi-Fi or cellular links that...October 29, 2012
Aircell said Avjet Corp., an international provider of aircraft charter and management solutions, has reached the mid-point in a program to equip its charter fleet with Aircell’s Gogo Biz in-flight Internet service. More than 50 percent of Avjet’s charter aircraft now offer the service. Gogo Biz allows passengers and flight crews to...October 28, 2012
Honeywell is forecasting relatively flat growth in business jet deliveries in the next year, with the market still dampened by the sluggish global economy and slower-than-projected demand. In its highly anticipated forecast released on the eve of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) conference in Orlando, Fla., the Honeywell Business Aviation Outlook is predicting 10,000 new business jet...October 26, 2012
AgustaWestland has selected the Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics suite for its AW609 TitltRotor, marking the first European customer for Pro Line Fusion and the first announced forward-fit application of Rockwell Collins’ touch-control primary flight displays. "This is...October 25, 2012
Rockwell Collins and China Electronics Technology Avionics Co. (CETCA) have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) to develop and manufacture the communication and navigation systems for the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd...October 24, 2012
Sentient, based in Melbourne, Australia, signed a long-term licensing agreement with Boeing subsidiary Insitu to integrate Kestrel land and maritime automated detection software systems into Insitu’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Currently deployed as a separate product, Kestel operates adjacent to Insitu systems. The incorporation of Kestrel software into Insitu’s UAS will enhance operator...October 24, 2012
R³ Engineering, based in Lusby, Md., said Wednesday it executed an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) based, fully autonomous collision avoidance sequence, performed by a sense and avoid system installed on an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). During the test, which was conducted at the former Naval Base in Argentia, Newfoundland, on Aug. 10, R³’s All Weather Sense and Avoid...October 24, 2012
With less than two weeks remaining until the presidential election, the candidates addressed the issue of sequestration on Monday, saying they both would like to see that scenario avoided, but offered little in the way of specifics on how to see it doesn't happen. Aerospace Industries Association President Marion Blakey said she and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers President...October 24, 2012
Northrop Grumman delivered a second Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) equipped with the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) to the U.S. Air Force. The BACN uses a suite of computers and radio systems to expand airborne communications and...October 24, 2012
Rockwell Collins on Wednesday said it began flight testing for its latest configuration of Pro Line Fusion avionics suite, featuring touch-screen primary flight displays. The tests are taking place on the company’s Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200GT. “Seeing this aircraft lift off the runway...October 23, 2012
Raytheon was awarded $51 million to build more airborne radios and continue to modernize future radios for the U.S. Army. The modernization effort includes Phase 3 of the Mobile User Objective Service/Cryptographic Modernization (MUOS/CM) Upgrade Program, which significantly increases satellite capacity for soldiers. MUOS replaces the aging constellation of Ultra High Frequency Follow-On communications...
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