Commercial

U.K., France Advance UAS Cooperation

France and the U.K. are moving forward with its defense cooperation, announcing France will undertake operational assessments and trials of the Thales Watchkeeper unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in 2012 and 2013 and the two…

Business & GA

Rockwell Collins’ AIM Certified for More Aircraft

Rockwell Collins said Tuesday its Ascend Aircraft Information Manager (AIM) data transfer and management system has been certified for the Dassault Falcon 2000, Hawker Beechcraft B300 Series King Air and the Piaggio…

Business & GA

Aspen Avionics Awarded STC for MFD on R44

Aspen Avionics received FAA approval for installation of its H-series Primary Flight Displays (PFD) and Multi-function Flight Displays (MFD) into the Robinson R44 and R44 II model helicopters. The PFD is a…

Commercial

NAVAIR Names New Chief of Unmanned Aviation

Rear Adm. Mathias Winter Rear Adm. Mathias Winter was named head of the Naval Air System Command's (NAVAIR) Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons (PEO(U&W)) during a change of command…

Military

L-3 to Provide Video Display Terminal for MC-130J

L-3 Display Systems was selected by Lockheed Martin to provide the Combat Systems Operator (CSO) Video Display Terminal (VDT) for the MC-130J. Under the terms of this contract, which was awarded in…

Commercial

JetBlue Awarded STC for ACSS Transponder

JetBlue received Supplemental Type Certification (STC) on its Airbus A320s for DO-260B (TSO-C166b) capability using ACSS’s XS-950 Mode S Transponder, manufacturer ACSS said. DO-260B is the highest level of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast transmission…