Business & GA

Universal, Western Aircraft Partner on Falcon

Universal Avionics, of Tucson, Ariz., and Western Aircraft, of Boise, Idaho, have partnered to develop a cockpit for the Dassault Falcon 900B. The cockpit upgrade will replace 25 older instruments, and will include…

Commercial

Tibet Airlines Selects Rockwell Collins Systems

Tibet Airlines selected Rockwell Collins to provide a suite of avionics for the airline's Airbus A319s. The systems will initially be installed on nine of Tibet's new Airbus A319 aircraft, with an option…

Commercial

Thales to Create IFE Venture in China

Thales said Tuesday it signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Electronics Technology Avionics, (CETCA) whose parent company…

Embedded Avionics

F-35 Software Blocks Begins Tests

Lockheed Martin said Monday the "fundamental building block" for all future avionics software on its F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter has entered flight testing on an F-35 test jet. "Block 1,"…

Commercial

Xiamen Airlines Selects Rockwell Collins

Xiamen Airlines has selected a suite of Rockwell Collins avionics, including MultiScan Threat Detection System and GLU-925 Multi-Mode Receiver (MMR) for 25 Boeing 737NGs. Deliveries will begin in July 2011. MultiScan is…

Embedded Avionics

Northrop Grumman Awarded E-3D IFF Contract

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $64 million contract by the U.K. Ministry of Defence (MoD) to design, develop, integrate, test and support the Mode S upgrade to the Identification Friend or…

Business & GA

Jet Airways Selects navAero EFBs

Jet Airways has selected navAero to supply its tBag C22 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) for the airline’s fleet of 96 A330s, B737-NGs and ATR 72s. Jet Airways will begin the implementation of its…

Business & GA

Jeppesen Enters GA Data Agreement

Jeppesen and Advanced Flight Systems, of Canby, a supplier of avionics hardware for the light sport and experimental aircraft, have entered into an agreement to provide Jeppesen NavData and obstacle services for…