Business & GAGarmin G500 OKed for Part 23 Aircraft Garmin on Thursday said it has received FAA Approved Model List Supplemental Type Certification (AML STC) for the G500, its new avionics suite announced this week at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. The…
CommercialBoeing Completes Purchase of 787 Plant Boeing said Thursday it completed its $580 million acquisition of a 787 plant in South Carolina. The company said it completed the acquisition of the business and operations conducted by Vought Aircraft…
Business & GAGarmin Unveils Part 23 Cockpit Garmin introduced its G500, an all-glass avionics suite designed for Part 23 Class I and Class II aircraft, the company announced at this week's EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. Garmin said the G500…
MilitaryCMC Receives FAA TSO OK Esterline CMC Electronics, based in Montreal, received Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval from FAA for its Cockpit 4000 Integrated Avionics System as installed on the Hawker Beechcraft T-6B Texan trainer aircraft. The Cockpit…
Business & GAGarmin Delivers 100,000th GNS 400/500 Garmin has delivered more than 100,000 GNS 400/500 series GPS/navigation/communication products, the company announced Tuesday. Garmin estimates its 400/500 series avionics have been installed on approximately half of all U.S. single and…
Business & GAAspen Avionics Debuts Helicopter PFD Aspen Avionics introduced its first offering for the rotary wing market: the EFD1000H Pro Helicopter Primary Flight Display (PFD). The company introduced this product at this week’s EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis.…
CommercialHoneywell to Provide Avionics to AWAS Honeywell will provide a suite of its safety and navigational avionics, as well as its Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), to aircraft leasing company AWAS. The avionics provided in the contract include IntuVue…
MilitaryBoeing Submits Proposal for KC-10 Upgrades Boeing said it submitted a proposal to the U.S. Air Force to upgrade the cockpits of its fleet of 59 KC-10 Extender tanker/transport aircraft. The proposal covers engineering and manufacturing development, production…
ATM ModernizationNextGen Task Force Seeks ‘Applicants’ The RTCA NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force recently assembled a “user validation” meeting in Memphis, Tenn., to determine which new operational capabilities airspace users would be willing to implement. Another such meeting is…
ATM ModernizationITT Awarded FAA ATC Contract ITT Corp. was awarded a $66.8 million contract by FAA's Air Traffic Organization-Terminal (ATO-T) to define, engineer, and implement the next generation of airport terminal air traffic control systems. Airport terminal operations…