ATM ModernizationNew Products Flight Computer Avidyne, of Lincoln, Mass., introduced an attitude-based DFC100 Digital Flight Control System, which was specifically designed for installation in Cirrus SR20s and SR22s with Avidyne’s dual Air Data and Attitude…
CommercialPerspectives: Advancing AIXM FAA, Eurocontrol, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and others, with the assistance of companies such as FedEx and Lufthansa, are developing the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM),…
CommercialMalcor of Thales Resigns Jean-Georges Malcor, senior vice president at Thales, has resigned, effective Dec. 31, 2009, to accept the CEO position at CGGVeritas, a France-based geophysical equipment and services company. Malcor, who previously was senior vice…
Editor's NoteECS in Licensing Agreement with Boeing ECS, which was acquired this month by Carlisle Companies, entered into a data licensing agreement with Boeing allowing the use of Boeing detail engineering design data to develop Supplemental Type Certificates (STC)…
MilitaryRaytheon Awarded Airborne Sonar Contract Raytheon received an $81.1 million U.S. Navy contract for the AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS), the primary undersea warfare sensor for the Navy's MH-60R multi-mission helicopter. According to Raytheon, the system…
MilitaryBoeing Awarded B-1 Avionics Software Pact Boeing received an $84 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for additional upgrades of the B-1 bomber's avionics software. Boeing said this contract authorizes Boeing to start work on Sustainment Block…
Business & GACessna Awarded STC for IS&S AdViz Cessna Aircraft was awarded a supplemental type certificate for retrofit installations of the AdViz flat panel cocking display system from Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S), of Exton, Pa., in some legacy Cessna Citations.…
Business & GAColumbia Avionics Completes Universal Upgrade Columbia Avionics, based in Columbia, Mo., completed an avionics modernization program and heavy maintenance on a Cessna 650 Model VI for the Chilean Direccion General De Aeronautica Civil (DGAC). The upgrades included the…
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