ATM ModernizationThales Awarded ADS-B/WAM System Contract Thales U.K. was awarded a contract to supply a Wide-Area Multilateration (WAM) system to the U.K.'s National Air Traffic Services (NATS). The company said this is to be a trial system to…
MilitaryUpgraded B-52H Completes Test Flight Boeing said Thursday its B-52H upgraded with new communication technology completed its first test flight at Edwards Air Force Base on Jan. 17. The Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) upgrade allows B-52H…
Business & GANextant Aerospace Selects Venue CMS Rockwell Collins' Venue cabin management system was selected for Nextant Aerospace's BeechJet 400NEXT package. The agreement, which initially includes 30 Venue ship sets, marks the first aftermarket offering of Venue, Rockwell Collins said. The…
CommercialnavAero EFB Receives EASA STC NavAero, based in Chicago, said this week its tBag C22 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) received an EASA Supplementary Type Certificate (STC) for Airbus A318/319/320/321 series. The deployed architecture consists of cross-connected dual tBag…
CommercialCAE Signs Contract With Saudia Arabia Canadian flight simulator company CAE was awarded a contract with the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), for its CAE Flightscape for a comprehensive flight recorder playback…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Radar Tested on F-16 Northrop Grumman demonstrated its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) on a F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in support of the Air Force's F-16 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) feasibility study.…
Business & GAAspen Avionics Awarded EASA STC Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, N.M., said it was awarded a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) supplemental type certificate for installation of its EFD1000 Primary Flight Display in Cessna 172, 175, 177…
CommercialKansas State Gets FAA OK to Fly UAV FAA issued a Certificate of Authorization (COA) to Kansas State University to fly the PowerCat, a gas-driven unmanned aerial vehicle, above Crisis City, an emergency response training area near Salina, Kan. This is the…
CommercialEADS North America Acquires Trig-Tek EADS North America Test and Services, based in Irvine, Calif., on Jan. 11 announced plans to acquire Trig-Tek, Inc., a Garden Grove, Calif.-based manufacturer of precision, dynamic test and measurement instruments for the U.S.…
CommercialNOAA, BAE Complete UAS Test Flight BAE Systems, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), completed the first successful test flight of its small, electric-powered Coyote unmanned aircraft system. The system deployed in midair from…