Business & GABusiness Aviation Outlook: 2011 Is Trough Business aircraft deliveries in 2011 are expected to fall below 700 units, marking the trough of a three-year freefall in industry fortunes, according to Honeywell Aerospace. Unit deliveries in 2009 dropped 25…
Business & GARockwell Collins EVS Certified on BBJ Rockwell Collins Enhanced Vision System (EVS) was certified last week by FAA on a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), an Air National Guard C-40, the companies announced Monday at the NBAA convention in Atlanta. The…
Business & GABombardier Selects Aircell Connectivity Suite Bombardier Aerospace has chosen a suite of Aircell systems as factory options aboard select aircraft from the Learjet and Challenger business jet families, Aircell announced Monday. The company made the announcement at…
CommercialFedEx to Upgrade Caravan Avionics FedEx Express is upgrading the avionics and ice protection systems on its fleet of 250 Cessna 208 Caravans, the company announced Wednesday. Garmin, of Olathe, Kan., will supply its G600 avionics suite,…
Business & GALockheed Martin Wins Test Equipment Contract Lockheed Martin, Mission Systems and Sensors, Owego, N.Y., was awarded a $10 million contract from the U.S. Navy for specialized test equipment required to perform depot-level repairs to the MH-60 helicopter common cockpit…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Tests B-2 Satcom System Northrop Grumman has begun flight testing the computing hardware and communications infrastructure for the B-2 stealth bomber, the company announced Thursday. Since Sept. 1, the company has conducted a series of test…
CommercialNORTH Flight Data Systems to Buy Product Line NORTH Flight Data Systems, based in Arlington, Texas, announced plans Wednesday to acquire the Flight Data System product line from OuterLink of Lowell, Mass. NORTH Flight Data Systems was recently formed through a partnership between…
Business & GAElbit Awarded Head-Up Display Contract Elbit Systems of America was awarded a 5-year, $68 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the U.S. Army to supply the U.S.Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard with AN/AVS-7…
MilitaryRaytheon Awarded Airborne Sonar Contracts Raytheon received two contracts totaling $115.7 million for the AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS), the primary undersea warfare sensor for the U.S. Navy's MH-60R multimission helicopter. The contracts were awarded by…
MilitaryBAE to Supply F-16 IFF Systems -BAE Systems will provide identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) systems for U.S. Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcons under a four-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with the first delivery order valued at $17.2 million. The…