CommercialViaSat Looks to Increase In-Flight Bandwidth With New FCC License ViaSat on Tuesday announced it has received blanket license radio station authorization for Ka-band aeronautical earth stations, which provides regulatory approval for airborne Ka-band service across the United States. (Photo:…
ATM ModernizationSaab Sensis to Perform NextGen Research for NASA Saab Sensis, a subsidiary of Saab of Sweden, has been awarded a NASA contract to perform research on airborne and ground systems for flight safety and air traffic management. Contract length…
Embedded AvionicsNorthrop Grumman Delivers 100th F-35 Avionics System Northrop Grumman on Monday announced the delivery of its 100th avionics system for Lockheed Martin's fifth generation F-35 Lighting II fighter jet. (A Northrop Grumman test engineer conducts manufacturing testing…
CommercialFAA Issues First Commercial UAS Type Certificates FAA issued the first restricted type certificates to permit commercial operations with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) recently, authorizing Insitu's Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment's PUMA to begin flying commercial missions within the National…
CommercialRockwell Collins, Jeppesen Streamline Flight Data Uploads Rockwell Collins on Monday announced a new agreement at the EAA AirVenture show to begin automatically transferring Jeppesen electronic flight charts to flight decks using its Ascend Aircraft Information Manager (AIM). …
CommercialFAA Issues Directive for Boeing 787 Inspections FAA on Thursday issued a new airworthiness directive requiring all U.S.-based operators of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner passenger jet to either inspect or remove the aircraft's fixed emergency locator transmitter (ELT). …
CommercialAerospace Sales Help Strong Second Quarter for Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman raised its 2013 financial outlook after posting a strong second quarter, aided by work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The aerospace and defense contractor's second quarter net…
Business & GAGarmin Receives European Avionics Approvals Garmin is expanding some of its avionics offerings to Europe, as the company announced several new certifications Thursday from EASA. (G1000 avionics suite. Photo, courtesy of Garmin.) EASA became…