Commercial

China Cargo Airlines Selects Rockwell Collins

China Cargo Airlines selected Rockwell Collins to provide a package of communication, navigation and surveillance avionics for 10 Boeing 777 aircraft. Deliveries of these aircraft are scheduled to begin in December 2009…

Commercial

Esterline Sells Muirhead Subsidiary

Esterline Corp., of Bellevue, Wash., announced Monday it is selling its U.K.-based Muirhead Aerospace subsidiary to AMETEK, Paoli, Pa. Esterline said it anticipates an after-tax gain on the sale of about $16…

ATM Modernization

Sensis to Deploy Multilateration in Montreal

Nav Canada announced plans to deploy a multilateration system for surface surveillance from Sensis, Syracuse, N.Y., Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The contract also calls for the airport to use Sensis…

Military

AeroVironment Awarded Army UAV Contract

AeroVironment, Monrovia, Calif., was awarded $5.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to procure research, development, test & evaluation digital data link effort for the Raven RQ-11B unmanned aircraft System. Work will be…

Commercial

FAA Signs Contract with Honeywell, ACSS

FAA signed a $9 million agreement with Honeywell and Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS) to accelerate testing and installation of Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) technology. Acting FAA Administrator said the contracts…

Business & GA

Q&A: IS&S: Display Systems Provider

Now in its 20th year, Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) has evolved from being a supplier of discrete avionic instruments to providing advanced, integrated display systems as well as air-data products, fuel…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Wire and Cable

The mantra for designers and manufacturers of avionics-grade wire and cable is to do more with less. The "more" relates to the bandwidth capability and throughput that make it possible for airlines…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Transceiver European Approval L-3 Avionics Systems received EASA European Technical Standard Order Authorization (ETSOA) for its ADR-7050 Digital Transceiver for navigation and communication. The ADR-7050 is a remotely controlled and mounted digital…