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November 1, 2012
Eclipse Aerospace selected Lexavia Integrated Systems, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., to supply the Enhanced Vision system in the Eclipse 550 Jet, scheduled for first delivery in the third quarter 2013. The Lexavia model chosen, the LFS6000, includes a sensor housing rises a 1.42 inches above the center of the bonnet. It will be configured with a 640 x 480 element sensor array, which uses VOx long wave infrared...November 1, 2012
Blackhawk Modifications announced a new feature for its Cessna 208B Caravan XP42A upgrade package, the Flightline System Ultra Trend Monitoring System (TMS). FAA has approved the Ultra Trend Monitoring...November 1, 2012
NAVSUP Weapons Systems Support (WSS) awarded Honeywell a follow-on five-year $181 million contract to provide logistics support for auxiliary power units (APUs) for F/A-18 A-G, P-3, C-2, as well as F/A-18 main fuel controls (MFC) and the...October 31, 2012
Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support (GCS), based in Wichita, Kan., said it is accepting orders for the Synthetic Vision System (SVS) upgrade for all Pro Line 21-equipped Beechcraft King Air 200/300 series aircraft. The upgrade for this platform is scheduled for entry into service in March 2013. Hawker Beechcraft and Rockwell Collins entered into an agreement last year that will provide...October 31, 2012
Metron Aviation, based in Dulles, Va., was awarded a contract to evaluate air-side capacity enhancements for South Africa. The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) provided a grant to the Air Traffic and Navigation Services Company (ATNS) to fund the study. Metron Aviation, with its team members Landrum & Brown...October 31, 2012
StandardAero signed an agreement with ACSS to offer its line of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) products for business jets, the companies announced this week. "ADS-B is a cornerstone technology of the FAA’s NextGen airspace redesign project," said Jeremy Thomas, Avionics Product Director, StandardAero. "Our customers want to take advantage...October 31, 2012
Richardson, Texas-based aircraft management company Flexjet has received conditional authorization from FAA for the use of iPads as electronic flight bags (EFBs). The conditional authorization applies to fractional flights...October 31, 2012
Honeywell signed a contract worth up to $800 million to provide environmental control systems, LASEREF navigation and state-of-the-art communications systems for the new Cessna Citation Latitude and Cessna Citation Longitude aircraft. The contract also...October 31, 2012
Eclipse Aerospace placed a production order for the Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) Avio IFMS avionics suite for its production model Eclipse 550 business jet. (The Eclipse 550 Cockpit: Avio Integrated Flight Management System) The advanced...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...
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