Commercial

Turkish Airlines Selects Panasonic IFE System

Turkish Airlines has added high-speed Wi-Fi broadband Internet access to its existing live, in-flight television service on Trans-Atlantic flights using IFE platform, PLANET, from Panasonic Avionics, based in Lake Forest, Calif. Passengers are now…

ATM Modernization

Thales to Provide Air Navigation Systems for Mexico

Thales has been selected to provide air traffic control systems for Mexico's air navigation service provider SENEAM, the company said Monday. Under the terms of the contract, Thales will provide its Instrumental…

Commercial

Dassault Rolls Out nEUROn UCAV Demonstrator

Dassault Aviation last week officially rolled out the nEUROn, European UCAV technology demonstrator, to the six participating countries. The six-nation Neuron European unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator industrial team includes Saab…

ATM Modernization

JetBlue to Use PASSUR Traffic Management System

JetBlue Airways selected the Integrated Traffic Management System from PASSUR Aerospace for deployment at its system operations center and throughout its network, the companies announced Thursday. The system is a web-hosted integrated business intelligence…

Commercial

AeroMechnical Signs Contract for 19 AFIRSs

Calgary-based AeroMechanical Services, under its FLYHT brand name, signed a five-year, $2 million contract with a Canadian airline for seven Automated Flight Information Reporting Systems (AFIRS) 220 and 12 AFIRS 228B systems, the…

Military

Sagem to Supply Actuator System for KC-390

Embraer Defense and Security has chosen Sagem's actuator system for the horizontal stabilizer trim system (HSTS) on its KC-390 military transport and tanker aircraft. The first flight of the KC-390 is scheduled…

Business & GA

Cessna's Citation Ten Makes Its First Flight

The Cessna Citation Ten prototype made its first flight Tuesday in Wichita, Kan. The flight lasted more than two hours and included tests of stability and control, handling qualities, functional operations including…

Business & GA

Flightstar Buys Assets of Bloomington Avionics

The Flightstar Corp., of Savoy, Ill., last week announced it paid an undisclosed sum for the assets of Bloomington Avionics, of Bloomington, Ill. The transfer was completed Dec. 29, 2011. The staff…

ATM Modernization

Datacomm Bidders Announce Their Teams

A program that will overhaul the way information is sent in the National Airspace System (NAS) is picking up steam, with a major contract under the Data Communications program set to be handed…