Commercial

CAE Signs Contract With Saudia Arabia

Canadian flight simulator company CAE was awarded a contract with the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), for its CAE Flightscape for a comprehensive flight recorder playback…

Military

Northrop Grumman Radar Tested on F-16

Northrop Grumman demonstrated its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) on a F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in support of the Air Force's F-16 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) feasibility study.…

Business & GA

Aspen Avionics Awarded EASA STC

Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, N.M., said it was awarded a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) supplemental type certificate for installation of its EFD1000 Primary Flight Display in Cessna 172, 175, 177…

Commercial

EADS North America Acquires Trig-Tek

EADS North America Test and Services, based in Irvine, Calif., on Jan. 11 announced plans to acquire Trig-Tek, Inc., a Garden Grove, Calif.-based manufacturer of precision, dynamic test and measurement instruments for the U.S.…

Commercial

Kansas State Gets FAA OK to Fly UAV

FAA issued a Certificate of Authorization (COA) to Kansas State University to fly the PowerCat, a gas-driven unmanned aerial vehicle, above Crisis City, an emergency response training area near Salina, Kan. This is the…

Commercial

NOAA, BAE Complete UAS Test Flight

BAE Systems, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), completed the first successful test flight of its small, electric-powered Coyote unmanned aircraft system. The system deployed in midair from…

Editor's Note

CAE Announces Simulator Order

CAE, based in Montreal, announced a contract amendment with Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) to provide a CAE 7000 Series Embraer 170/190 full-flight simulator (FFS). The change order amends a contract signed in June…

Commercial

Moscow Airport Selects Era's Surveillance System

Russian aviation authorities have selected surface surveillance equipment from Era a.s., based in Fairfax, Va., for Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport, the Russian Federation’s largest airport. The selected equipment includes Era’s MSS multilateration and…