Military

Hawk Mk51 Trainer Flies with CMC Avionics

CMC Electronics, of Montreal, announced last week that Patria Group of Finland flew a Hawk Mk51 trainer aircraft outfitted with its Cockpit 4000 integrated avionics suite. During the 100-minute flight from Halli…

Commercial

AEEC OKs 'MAGIC' Interface Development

Airlines, airframers and equipment manufacturers will look into developing a standard, IP-based communication management function that would accommodate dissimilar air-ground datalinks. Representatives to the AEEC General Session, meeting last week in Tulsa,…

Business & GA

Universal WAAS-Enabled FMS on Astra

Universal Avionics, Tucson, Ariz., completed an installation of its Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)-enabled flight management system in Astra aircraft. The installation, which was completed by Global Aviation, of Hillsboro, Ore., was of Universal's dual…

Business & GA

Gulfstream Makes FANS Flight Across Atlantic

Gulfstream Aerospace announced Tuesday it had recently completed a full Future Air Navigation System (FANS) flight across the Atlantic Ocean using Controller-Pilot Data Link Communication with Automatic Dependent Surveillance (CPDLC/ADS). Gulfstream said…

Business & GA

Barco Awarded Eurocopter Contract

Barco, of Kortrijk, Belgium was awarded a contract from Eurocopter to supply mission displays for the AS 565 Panther helicopter. The contract is part of an upgrade program that will gear up…

Military

CMC Wins U.S. Air Force Contract

CMC Electronics, Montreal, was awarded a follow-on contract by the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to supply its portable mission display, known as TacView, for its AC-130 gunship aircraft. AFSOC…

Business & GA

ViaSat Antenna Hits Milestone

ViaSat, Carlsbad, Calif., said Wednesday its ArcLight airborne broadband system recently passed 100,000 flight hours. Most of the hours of the Ku-band satellite service have been logged on large business aircraft using ARINC's SKYLink…

Commercial

CMC GPS Sensor Selected by Airbus

CMC Electronics, Montreal, was selected by Airbus Transport International (ATI) to supply its IntegriFlight CMA-5024 GPS landing system sensor for its fleet of five A300-600ST Beluga transport aircraft. ATI has previously selected…