Business & GA

G650 Awarded FAA Provisional Type Certificate

Gulfstream's Gulfstream G650 received FAA provisional type certificate (PTC), the manufacturer announced Friday. The certification clears the way for the company to begin interior completions of the ultra-large-cabin, ultra-long-range business jet in preparation…

Business & GA

Raytheon Awarded ADAS Contract

Raytheon has been awarded a $14.6 million contract to develop new image processing technology for the Advanced Distributed Aperture System. ADAS is a multispectral technology that gives helicopter pilots 360-degree situational awareness,…

Commercial

Etihad Selects Panasonic IFE in $1 Billion Deal

Etihad Airways selected in-flight entertainment and connectivity systems from Panasonic Avionics, of Lake Forest, Calif., for the carrier's entire long-haul fleet of wide-body aircraft, in a transaction worth more than $1 billion at list prices.…

Commercial

Qatar Airlines Launch Customer for Boeing EFF

Boeing said Wednesday Qatar Airways will be the launch customer for its Electronic Flight Folder (EFF) software appliation. The carrier will install the EFF on their entire fleet of Boeing 777s, making…

Business & GA

CAE to Provide King Air 350i Training in Australia

Montreal-based CAE said Thursday it will deploy a new CAE 5000 Series full-flight simulator (FFS) in the Melbourne, Australia, area in the first half of 2012 for training pilots and maintenance technicians…

Business & GA

Dubai Air Show Closes With Busy Order Books

Aviation in the Middle East looks poised for major growth as the industry closes out the Dubai Air Show this week with billions of dollars in new aircraft on the order books.…

Commercial

Air Arabia Selects Rockwell Collins IFE

Air Arabia has selected Rockwell Collins’ second-generation dPAVES in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for 44 new Airbus A320s. Air Arabia is the first airline in the Middle East to select this system, Rockwell Collins…

ATM Modernization

Insitu Forms UAS Partnership in Middle East

Insitu, of Bingen, Wash., has forged an alliance with Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments Company (ADASI) for the support and sustainment of Insitu's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) products…

Commercial

Emirates Selects Rockwell Collins Avionics

Emirates Airlines selected a package of Rockwell Collins avionics for 32 new Airbus A380s and 30 new Boeing 777s. Aircraft deliveries are in progress and will continue through 2015. The systems selected…

ATM Modernization

Raytheon to Provide ATM Systems in Dubai

Raytheon will deploy its air traffic management systems in Dubai, the company announced Monday. The company’s next-generation ATM system, AutoTrac III (AT3), installed at Dubai World Central’s Al Maktoum International Airport, is…