Business & GANBAA 2011 Honeywell Sees Slow Growth Honeywell expressed cautious optimism in the recovery of the business aviation industry, hopeful that 2011 will be the “trough year” and 2012 will see modest growth buoyed by…
Embedded AvionicsBoeing Wins B-1 Avionics Software Contract Boeing received a follow-on, $57 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for additional upgrades of the B-1 bomber fleet's avionics software. The contract continues a software-sustainment program that has updated and…
Business & GAUSAF Selects iPad App for C21A Fleet CAVU Companies, based in West Winfield, N.Y., will provide its EFB-Pro iPhone app for the U.S. Air Force's C21A fleet. The app produces takeoff and landing performance calculations from the C21A aircraft…
Business & GACautious Optimism It’s been a very difficult couple of years in the business aviation segment, to say the least. So I’ll forgive presenters at this year’s National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) conference and exhibition…
Business & GAGarmin G1000 Wins EASA Certification Garmin received EASA validation of the U.S. Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the installation of its Electronic Stability and Protection (ESP) and Iridium datalink in G1000-equipped King Air 200 and B200 models.…
Business & GABrazil Validates Cobham EFIS System Cobham’s 3-D Synthetic Vision Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS) received Brazilian validation for AS350/355 model series helicopters, allowing for aftermarket installation in that country, the company said Monday. The EFIS had previously…
CommercialSaudi Arabian Airlines Selects Thales TopFlight Saudi Arabian Airlines selected Thales to provide its TopFlight SATCOM system on its new aircraft. Thales TopFlight SATCOM system consists of an ARINC 781 compliant Satellite Data Unit (SDU) and its configuration…
Business & GAnavAero EFB Wins EASA Certification navAero received EASA supplemental type certification (STC) for its tBag C22 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) for BAE 146 /AVRO 146-RJ Series aircraft on behalf of Swedish regional airline Malmo Aviation. The deployed EFB system…