Commercial

L-3 Aviation Recorders Names New President

L-3 Aviation Recorders, based in Sarasota, Fla., named R. Michael Smith has been named president, succeeding Bruce Coffey, who was recently appointed president of L-3 Display Systems in Alpharetta, Ga.. Smith has been…

ATM Modernization

ACSS Appoints New General Manager

ACSS, an L-3 Communications and Thales joint venture, on Wednesday named Terry Flaishans vice president and general manager. Flaishans brings close to 30 years of aerospace experience to ACSS. He joins the company…

Business & GA

AMT EFB Software Selected by ATR

Aircraft Management Technologies (AMT) of Dublin, Ireland, has been selected to provide its Flightman software package for ATR's Class 2 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB), the companies announced Wednesday. ATR uses Esterline/CMC Electronics' Pilot…

ATM Modernization

Southwest Using RNP Procedures at 11 Airports

Southwest Airlines has now begun using required navigation performance procedures at 11 airports nationwide, the carrier announced Tuesday. The milestone, part of the company's announced $175 million, six-year investment in the technology,…

Commercial

ITT Splits Into Three Companies

ITT Corp. announced plans Wednesday to separate its businesses into three distinct, publicly traded companies –– ITT Corp., ITT water technology division and ITT Defense and Information Solutions segment. ITT said it believe these three…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins Acquires CTA

Rockwell Collins on Monday said it is acquiring Computing Technologies for Aviation, Inc. (CTA), of Charlottesville, Va., a provider of flight operations management systems for corporate flight departments and other aviation customers.…

Commercial

Global Observer UAS Flies With Hydrogen System

AeroVironment, Inc., of Monrovia, Calif., said Tuesday its Global Observer unmanned aircraft system completed its first flight powered by the aircraft’s hydrogen-fueled propulsion system at Edwards Air Force Base in California. This…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins Awarded C919 Simulator Work

Rockwell Collins has been awarded a program to develop components for the COMAC C919 aircraft simulator program by Xian Aviation Science and Technology Company (XASC), an AVIC subsidiary. The simulator will be…

Military

Curtiss-Wright Acquires Predator Systems Inc.

Curtiss-Wright on Friday announced it will pay $13.25 million to acquire Predator Systems Inc. (PSI), of Boca Raton, Fla., a manufacturer of motion control components and subsystems for ground defense, ordnance guidance…

Commercial

Vietnam Airlines Selects Rockwell Collins

Vietnam Airlines selected a suite of Rockwell Collins avionics, including its MultiScan Threat Detection System and Multi-Mode Receiver (MMR) Global Landing System, for 36 new Airbus 321-200s. Deliveries will begin in 2011…