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April 9, 2013
The U.S. Air Force issued a contract award of more than $71 million to Northrop Grumman to provide sensors and payload systems upgrades for its fleet of Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). (Global Hawk Block 30. Photo, courtesy of Northrop Grumman.) According to the Department of...April 9, 2013
OnAir is expanding the in-flight connectivity program for Saudia, national carrier of Saudia Arabia, to include commercial flights between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and most of the airline's worldwide destinations. Mobile...April 9, 2013
FAA announced a settlement agreement Monday with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) agreeing to pay a $3.5-million fine for failing to comply with the agency's aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) regulations. The settlement covers New York's Kennedy (JFK)...April 9, 2013
Row 44 has completed installation of its in-flight entertainment system on 60 of Norwegian Air Shuttle's Boeing 737-800 aircraft, making it the first European airline to offer video-on-demand service to passengers' Wi-Fi-enabled devices. ...April 8, 2013
Erickson has renewed two heavy lift support contracts with Helifor Canada (an affiliate of Columbia Helicopters) and Western Forest Products, which is based in Vancouver. Erickson S-64 providing logging support. Photo courtesy of Erickson Western has renewed its...April 8, 2013
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday at age 87, may be remembered militarily for leading the United Kingdom in the campaign to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982, which had been invaded by Argentina’s forces in a surprise attack. She served three terms in office and her defining moment could be said to have been during the Falklands War. Her close relationship with...April 8, 2013
Malaysia’s Weststar Aviation Services has agreed to purchase eight helicopters from AgustaWestland, consisting of a pair of large-cabin AW189s and a six-pack of AW139s. Tan Sri...April 8, 2013
FAA on Friday announced it would delay the planned closure of 149 air traffic control towers until June 15 that were scheduled to be shut down starting Sunday. The agency is looking to give the airport communities additional time to adjust to the closures and decide whether they want to...April 8, 2013
Boeing announced Friday the completion of the final certification test required by FAA for the new 787 lithium-ion battery system. The final test was a demonstration flight lasting nearly two hours to demonstrate that the new battery system performs as intended during normal and non-normal flight conditions. The company said it would analyze the results of several weeks of testing and then forward...April 8, 2013
Netherlands-based aerospace engineering firm Delft Dynamics introduced its new Universal Simulation Platform for Unmanned Systems (USPvOS) at the Kooy Symposium 2013 in Amsterdam. The platform enables unmanned systems’ ground stations to be linked directly to a virtual incident management simulator using...April 8, 2013
Airbus on Monday announced that construction of its A320 family aircraft assembly line in Mobile, Alabama is officially under way. The new facility will be the Blagnac, France-based airframe manufacturer’s first assembly line based in the U.S. (Projected look of...April 5, 2013
Eurocopter’s parent organization, European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS), is reorganizing its corporate structure by basing a single operational headquarters in Toulouse, France. Effective April 1, 2013...April 5, 2013
Stratford, Conn.-based Sikorsky Aircraft has obtained a $10.1-million extension of an existing U.S. Navy contract that calls...April 5, 2013
Russian leasing company, Sberbank Leasing, has placed a $1 billion order with Boeing for 12 Next-Generation 737-800s. (Photo, courtesy of Boeing.) The Sberbank of Russia subsidiary will use the aircraft for operational...April 5, 2013
US Airways on Thursday announced FAA certification for SafeRoute, a set of four flight deck applications that are compatible with the agency’s NextGen implementation. The certification was received in partnership with Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), manufacturer of the SafeRoute avionics suite. SafeRoute will enable the...April 5, 2013
Total airline system passenger traffic for airlines serving the U.S. increased by 1.3 percent in 2012 over 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports. According to BTS, 815.3 million scheduled passengers traveled on airlines...April 5, 2013
Irish national carrier Aer Lingus will lease two Airbus A320 aircraft from international aircraft leasing firm GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS). (Photo, courtesy of Aer Lingus.) Aer...April 5, 2013
The U.S. Air Force has issued a $7.3-million contract modification to Lockheed Martin to incorporate Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) NextGen Sensors on HC/MC-130J aircraft. (C-130J...April 4, 2013
According to a new study from the Reason Foundation, FAA could save $1.7 billion initially and up to $1 billion annually by building consolidated air traffic control centers and closing 187 air traffic radar rooms. The study comes as the agency prepares to close 149 air traffic control towers as part of $637 million in spending cuts required by the sequester. The foundation’s study reports that...April 4, 2013
Boeing on Thursday reported a total of 137 commercial aircraft deliveries for the first quarter of 2013, a day after opening a new expanded delivery center in Everett, Wash. (Boeing's new Everett, Wash. delivery facility. Photo, courtesy of Boeing.) The company delivered 102 of its 737 Next Generation aircraft in the first quarter, along with 24 total 777 deliveries, six 747s and four 767s. The first...
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