CommercialChew Named to Era Board Era Corp., Reston, Va., named Russell Chew, former FAA chief operating officer (COO), to its board of directors. Chew is the current president and COO of JetBlue Airways, where he leads the…
Business & GAKing Air C90GTi Certified by FAA Hawker Beechcraft Corp. obtained FAA certification for its King Air C90GTi, twin-turbine Beechcraft King Air 90 series aircraft. Introduced in May 2007, the King Air C90GTi upgrades includes the addition of the…
Business & GAAlaska Considers Loans for Avionics Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin unveiled a plan last week to give low-interest loans to pilots to install advanced satellite-based avionics in their aircraft. The plan would act as part of a larger…
MilitaryRaytheon Wins Radar Repair Work Raytheon was awarded a $34 million contract from the U.S. Navy for repair of components of the APG-65 and 73 radar system, which is used to support the F/A-18 aircraft. Work will…
CommercialThales to Supply A350 Avionics Thales will provide avionics and cockpit systems for Airbus’s new long-range, wide-body A350, a contract expected to generate up to $2.9 billion over the 20-year life of the contract. The package includes…
MilitaryBAE Delivers UAV Sensors BAE Systems delivered five target detection systems to the U.S. Army for use on Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The company said the AURORA Generation IV remote sensing system, a lightweight, wide-area…
CommercialCAE Inks $44 Million in Contracts CAE signed contracts to manufacture full-flight simulators (FFS), and a suite of its Simfinity training devices, for Qantas, Hainan Airlines, Airbus, Atlas Air, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Blue. The contracts are valued…
Business & GAEMTEQ Becomes Certified Repair Station EMTEQ, New Berlin, Wis., was granted its Air Agency Certificate E3TR548Y by the FAA in November 2007. As a certified repair station, EMTEQ is authorized to issue Return to Service tags and…