Commercial

Southwest Airlines Selects Teledyne Systems

Teledyne Controls, of El Segundo, Calif., announced a contract Thursday with Southwest Airlines to provide its LoadStar Server Enterprise (LSE) software and PMAT 2000 Portable Maintenance Access Terminal to support data distribution and…

Military

Bat UAV Completes Flight Tests

Northrop Grumman said Thursday it completed the series of flights of its Bat unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Configured with a 12-foot wingspan, the Bat-12 incorporates a Hirth engine and a low acoustic…

Commercial

Alaska Airlines to Deploy Gogo

Alaska Airlines will deploy Aircell’s Gogo in-flight Internet service, opting against the Row44 service it had been testing since last year. Alaska Airlines and Aircell will begin the certification process for the…

Business & GA

L-3 Standby Instrument Approved for Helicopters

L-3 Avionics Systems received FAA Technical Standard Order (TSO) approval for its Trilogy ESI-1000 Electronic Standby Instrument (ESI on Part 27 and Part 29 rotary-wing aircraft. This all-in-one glass standby instrument is the first…

Commercial

navAero EFB Awarded EASA STC

navAero's tBag C22 Class 2 electronic flight bag (EFB) was awarded an EASA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Embraer E135BJ Legacy, the company announced Monday. The STC was granted to navAero and its partner…

Business & GA

Blue Hawaiian Installs Thales Generators

Helicopter tour operator Blue Hawaiian Helicopters installed Thales’s electrical systems 160-amp starter generators on its fleet of Eurocopter AS350B2s and EC130B4s. Blue Hawaiian said it replaced its generators with the Thales version…

Business & GA

MD Helicopters Selects Emteq Lighting System

MD Helicopters has selected Emteq, of New Berlin, Wis., to develop and supply exterior lighting provisions for the MD900, MD500, and MD600 series helicopters production lines. The lighting systems will include Dual Mode…

Military

NanoSAR Available for Insitu's UASs

Boeing subsidiary Insitu, based in Bingen, Wash., announced the availability of NanoSAR, a tactical-level, synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) payload, for its ScanEagle and Integrator unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The availability is the result of…