ATM Modernization

Thales Awarded ADS-B/WAM System Contract

Thales U.K. was awarded a contract to supply a Wide-Area Multilateration (WAM) system to the U.K.'s National Air Traffic Services (NATS). The company said this is to be a trial system to…

Military

Upgraded B-52H Completes Test Flight

Boeing said Thursday its B-52H upgraded with new communication technology completed its first test flight at Edwards Air Force Base on Jan. 17. The Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT) upgrade allows B-52H…

Business & GA

Nextant Aerospace Selects Venue CMS

Rockwell Collins' Venue cabin management system was selected for Nextant Aerospace's BeechJet 400NEXT package. The agreement, which initially includes 30 Venue ship sets, marks the first aftermarket offering of Venue, Rockwell Collins said. The…

Commercial

CAE Signs Contract With Saudia Arabia

Canadian flight simulator company CAE was awarded a contract with the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), for its CAE Flightscape for a comprehensive flight recorder playback…

Commercial

navAero EFB Receives EASA STC

NavAero, based in Chicago, said this week its tBag C22 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) received an EASA Supplementary Type Certificate (STC) for Airbus A318/319/320/321 series. The deployed architecture consists of cross-connected dual tBag…

Military

Northrop Grumman Radar Tested on F-16

Northrop Grumman demonstrated its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) on a F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in support of the Air Force's F-16 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) feasibility study.…

Business & GA

Aspen Avionics Awarded EASA STC

Aspen Avionics, based in Albuquerque, N.M., said it was awarded a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) supplemental type certificate for installation of its EFD1000 Primary Flight Display in Cessna 172, 175, 177…

Commercial

EADS North America Acquires Trig-Tek

EADS North America Test and Services, based in Irvine, Calif., on Jan. 11 announced plans to acquire Trig-Tek, Inc., a Garden Grove, Calif.-based manufacturer of precision, dynamic test and measurement instruments for the U.S.…