Business & GA

Canada Approves Global Vision Flight Deck

Canadian officials have approved Bombardier's Global Vision flight deck, the airframer announced Friday. “This is an important milestone, as aircraft equipped with the Global Vision flight deck can now be granted a…

Business & GA

Fairfax County Selects Becker Audio System

Becker Avionics, based in Miramar, Fla., will supply its DVCS6100 Digital Audio System for Fairfax County, Va., Police Helicopter Division's new Bell 429s. The aircraft are currently undergoing completion at Paradigm Aerospace…

Embedded Avionics

Boeing Awarded C-130 AMP Training Contract

Boeing received a $61 million U.S. Air Force contract for two more C-130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) kits and two Aircrew Training System devices as part of a low-rate initial production (LRIP)…

Business & GA

Carlisle Interconnect Awarded EFB STC

Carlisle Interconnect Technologies/ECS, based in St. Augustine, Fla., was awarded a FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) for the installation of three configurations of a Class 3 electronic flight bag (EFB) on Boeing 737-600s, -700s, 700Cs,…

Business & GA

Aspen Avionics Awarded EASA STCs

Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, N.M., was awarded two additional EASA supplemental type certificates (STC) for the Evolution Primary Flight Display (PFD) system. Avionik Straubing of Germany has developed an STC for the…

Commercial

Alaska Airlines Nears Wi-Fi Completion

Alaska Airlines on Thursday said the Gogo In-flight Internet service from Aircell is now available on nearly all aircraft in its fleet. With the installation of the service scheduled for completion later…

Commercial

Global Hawk Lands in Grand Forks

Photo courtesy Northrop Grumman The first RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) arrived at Grand Forks Air Force Base, the second main operating base in the United States for the aircraft. The Global…

Business & GA

Cobham HeliSAS STC'ed on Eurocopter Models

HeliSAS, Cobham’s Autopilot and Stability Augmentation System, has been granted FAA supplemental type certification (STC) on the Eurocopter AS350 model series and EC130 helicopters. Earlier this year, HeliSAS was STC’d on the…