CommercialAustralia’s Ferra Engineering to Provide Initial Production for Triton UAS Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton. Photo: Northrop Grumman [Avionics Today 07-31-2015] Northrop Grumman has awarded a contract for the U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) initial production lot to Ferra Engineering,…
Business & GACommsoft Launches Mobile App for MRO IT System [Avionics Today 07-31-2015] Commsoft has launched a mobile application, called Open Aviation Strategic Engineering System (OASES), for pilots and line maintenance engineers in the field. OASES can be accessed through tablets…
CommercialInsitu Wins Contract to Build Six RQ-21A Blackjack UAS for US Navy RQ-21A Blackjack UAS. Photo: Navair [Avionics Today 07-31-2015] Insitu has signed a contract to build six RQ-21A Blackjack systems for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The $78-million Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft…
Business & GABoeing Moves AM&S to New Oklahoma City Facility Mayor Mick Cornett, Commissioner Brian Maughan, President of Boeing Global Services and Support Leanne Caret, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and Boeing Oklahoma City Site Director Jeb Boatman pushed an E-6B aircraft throttle…
Business & GAEmbraer, Bombardier See Delays, Depreciation and Market Softness in Q2 [Avionics Today 07-31-2015] Second quarter 2105 earnings for both biz jet giants, Bombardier and Embraer, have turned up troubled revenues despite an uptick in aircraft sales. Bombardier has been sailing rough seas…
CommercialPossible MH370 Debris Washes Ashore Investigators remove debris that may belong to the missing MH 370. Photo: blog-peuravion.fr [Avionics Today 07-30-2015] Possible wreckage from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have washed ashore on the island of…
Business & GAButler Avionics Offers Rockwell Collins AHRS Retrofit for Learjet 60 Learjet 60 cockpit, rendering. Photo: Bombardier [Avionics Today 07-30-2015] Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) company Butler National Corporation’s subsidiary Avcon Industries has received FAA approval to install the Rockwell Collins AHC-3000A Attitude…
Business & GATeledyne Aerospace Sales Offset Currency Headwinds [Avionics Today 07-30-2015] Teledyne has reported second quarter 2015 sales of $577.7 million, compared with sales of $597.1 million for the second quarter of 2014, a decrease of 3.2 percent. The company…
Embedded AvionicsAustralian Air Force Acquires First Boeing Growler Amazon’s rendering of a segregated UAS airspace. Photo: Amazon [Avionics Today 07-30-2015] Boeing and the U.S. Navy have presented the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) with the first EA-18G Growler, equipping the…
ATM ModernizationAmazon Proposes New ATM Model for Commercial UAS Ops [Avionics Today 07-30-2015] Amazon has proposed a new plan for integration of low-altitude small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) into the National Airspace System (NAS) that the company believes will limit incidents with…