Commercial

Thales Awarded Avionics Maintenance Contract

Thales signed a long-term avionics deal with Chinese airline Hainan Airlines for the support of its Airbus A340-600 fleet, the Paris-based company announced Monday from the Singapore Air Show. The 6-year agreement is a component…

Commercial

Goodrich Wins MC-21 Actuation System Work

Goodrich was selected by Russia's Irkut and Aviapribor to provide the flight control actuation system for the new Irkut MC-21 family of single-aisle commercial aircraft. Goodrich made the announcement at this week's…

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.…