Business & GAHoneywell Signs SVS Licensing Deal Honeywell signed an exclusive licensing agreement to provide the VistaNav Synthetic Vision System, developed by Mercury Computer Systems, Chelmsford, Mass., for the general aviation market. Under the licensing agreement, announced in April,…
CommercialPanasonic Signs In-Flight Broadband Deal Panasonic Avionics, Lake Forest, Calif., is jumping into the in-flight broadband market with the signing this week of a multi-year service agreement with Intelsat Inc., a satellite services provider based in Bermuda.…
CommercialCAE Receives $59 Million in Orders CAE, Montreal, signed a contract for five full-flight simulators (FFS) and associated training devices for Lufthansa Flight Training, Flight Training Finance, Swiss Aviation Training and the Zhuhai Flight Training Centre in China.…
MilitaryNavy Acquires Lot of Airborne Attack Systems The U.S. Navy is acquiring a third lot of Northrop Grumman Improved Capability (ICAP) III airborne electronic attack systems for its fleet of EA-6B Prowlers under a $101.9 million contract. Under terms…
Business & GASkyTrac Signs Satcom Deal with Sloan SkyTrac, Kelowna, British Columbia, will provide satellite communication and flight following systems to Sloan Helicopters, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sloan Helicopters, a provider of charter services for…
MilitaryGeneral Dynamics Wins Radome Contract General Dynamics was selected by Boeing to provide wideband radomes for the F-15 Radar Modernization Program (RMP). Financial terms were not disclosed. The contract covers the design, development and production of wideband…
CommercialEra Acquired Era Corp., a manufacturer of surveillance and flight tracking technologies, will be acquired by SRA International, Fairfax, Va., the companies announced Wednesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The transaction…
MilitaryScanEagle Hits Milestones The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a joint effort of Boeing and Insitu, Bingen, Wash., logged a pair of service milestones as it topped 50,000 combat flight hours with the U.S. Marines in Iraq…
CommercialBridging the Gap Canada’s Bombardier is preparing to introduce two new aircraft to the commercial airline industry over the next five years. The airframer will complete its regional jet family with the soon-to-fly CRJ1000 NextGen…
Business & GASpn Stands for Single-Pilot Operation When Switzerland’s Grob Aerospace launched its spn business jet at the 2005 Paris Air Show, one of the aircraft’s ground-breaking features was its adoption of Honeywell’s new Primus Apex avionic suite. Designed…