Commercial

Kansas State Gets FAA OK to Fly UAV

FAA issued a Certificate of Authorization (COA) to Kansas State University to fly the PowerCat, a gas-driven unmanned aerial vehicle, above Crisis City, an emergency response training area near Salina, Kan. This is the…

Commercial

NOAA, BAE Complete UAS Test Flight

BAE Systems, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), completed the first successful test flight of its small, electric-powered Coyote unmanned aircraft system. The system deployed in midair from…

Editor's Note

CAE Announces Simulator Order

CAE, based in Montreal, announced a contract amendment with Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) to provide a CAE 7000 Series Embraer 170/190 full-flight simulator (FFS). The change order amends a contract signed in June…

Commercial

Moscow Airport Selects Era's Surveillance System

Russian aviation authorities have selected surface surveillance equipment from Era a.s., based in Fairfax, Va., for Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport, the Russian Federation’s largest airport. The selected equipment includes Era’s MSS multilateration and…

Business & GA

EMS Technologies Forms Aviation Division

EMS Technologies has formed a new division, called EMS Aviation, which will allow it to combine its efforts to address connectivity needs for virtually any aircraft, the company said Wednesday. EMS Aviation will include…

Business & GA

InterSense Awarded NASA Contract

InterSense, of Billerica, Mass., received additional funding from NASA for the continued development and testing of an inertial-optical head tracking system for commercial pilots. InterSense is developing a miniaturized inertial-optical tracker prototype…

Military

Elbit Wins Data Link Contract for AH-1W

Elbit Systems of America was awarded a $15.6 million contract from Naval Air Systems Command for its Tactical Video Data Link (TVDL) for the USMC AH-1W Attack Helicopter. The contract effort covers…

Commercial

Airbus Places RFID Order for A350XWB

An American firm and French company announced a “pioneering” contract from Airbus to supply radio frequency identification tags (RFID) for application across the A350XWB fleet. Chip developer Tego, Inc., of Waltham, Mass.,…