CommercialChina Issues Airworthiness Directive for Boeing 737 MAX System and Manual Changes China's civil aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), on Thursday issued its final airworthiness directive (AD) outlining the flight manual and hardware and software changes required for lifting its…
CommercialFormer Bombardier President Sees Promising Future in Autonomous Aircraft in New Role with Xwing Fred Cromer, former president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, has worked in several challenging roles across different segments of aviation and will be taking on another exciting challenge in his new role as…
ATM ModernizationFAA Awards Oceanic FANS 1/A Data Link Contract to SITA The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) will manage its oceanic airspace with SITA's air traffic controller (ATC) data link service, after the agency awarded the Switzerland-based aviation IT service provider its Oceanic Data…
Business & GATextron Completes First Flight of Beechcraft Denali The Beechcraft Denali, powered by GE Aviation's new Catalyst engine, completed its first test flight Tuesday, according to a Nov. 23 announcement from Textron Aviation. According to details shared by Textron, the…
ConnectivityPODCAST: Intelsat's John Wade Talks Future of Software-defined Satellites and In-flight Connectivity On this episode of the Connected Aviation Intelligence Podcast, we feature a sponsored interview with Intelsat. John Wade, president of the commercial aviation division of Intelsat, joins the episode to explain how…
CommercialEmirates to Upgrade Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 MMRs and Cabin Interiors Emirates is retrofitting its fleet of Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 aircraft with upgraded avionics and in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems, according to separate announcements made by the Middle Eastern carrier and Collins…
Air TaxiDiehl and Thales to Develop Flight Control Computers for CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL Diehl, the Germany-based aircraft systems supplier and Thales, the Toulouse-based avionics maker, will each supply the flight control computers for the CityAirbus NextGen electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft revealed by…
Business & GAGulfstream to Feature Thales Flight Control Computers on G400 and G800 Thales has confirmed that it will be supplying the latest version of its flight control computers to Gulfstream for their G400 and G800 business jets. Gulfstream revealed the two all-new aircraft types,…
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