Business & GA

StandardAero Brings Honeywell JetWave to European Gulfstream Jets

StandardAero will now be able to install Honeywell JetWave Ka-band satellite communications systems and radome equipment on Gulfstream GV/GV-SP aircraft registered in Europe after receiving an STC from EASA. The STC allows StandardAero to immediately fulfill radome…

ATM Modernization

European Airlines Not on Track to Meet 2020 ADS-B Mandate

A Single European ATM Research Agency Deployment Manager (SESAR DM) report on avionics equipage rates in Europe found that only 20% of the region’s in-service commercial aircraft fleet is technologically equipped to…

Business & GA

ATR Tests ClearVision for Turboprop Potential

ATR is evaluating the use of the ClearVision enhanced vision system in low visibility conditions. The French OEM took a prototype ATR 600 aircraft to Guernsey in June for final testing of…

Commercial

AeroVironment to Build Mars Helicopter for NASA

Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufacturer AeroVironment will collaborate with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to build the agency's Mars Helicopter planned to fly on Mars. The helicopter will fly on NASA’s next…

Military

US Defense Avionics Contract Round-Up

Air Force General Electric received a $437 million modification to a contract for designing, fabricating, integrating, and testing complete, flight-weight adaptive engines. The contract modification is for the execution of next-generation adaptive-propulsion…