Commercial

Era Acquired

Era Corp., a manufacturer of surveillance and flight tracking technologies, will be acquired by SRA International, Fairfax, Va., the companies announced Wednesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The transaction…

Military

ScanEagle Hits Milestones

The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, a joint effort of Boeing and Insitu, Bingen, Wash., logged a pair of service milestones as it topped 50,000 combat flight hours with the U.S. Marines in Iraq…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: UAS In Civil Airspace

For each of the past two years that I served as chairman of an avionics conference in Amsterdam, two prominent advocates of mainstreaming unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in civil airspace challenged, even…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

  Systems Development Improved On Tranche 2 Typhoon Improved systems development tools and processes have helped shorten the development lifecycle of the Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon, which is scheduled for deliveries to…

ATM Modernization

People

Joseph B. Smith Alto Aviation, Leominster, Mass., named Joseph B. Smith senior quality manager. Smith has more than 25 years experience in manufacturing, wire harness cable, electromechanical devices and sub assemblies. Alto…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

May 5-7 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center, Bethesda, Md. Visit http://i-cns.org. 5-8 Regional Airline Association (RAA) Annual Convention, Indiana Convention Center & RCA…

Commercial

Bridging the Gap

Canada’s Bombardier is preparing to introduce two new aircraft to the commercial airline industry over the next five years. The airframer will complete its regional jet family with the soon-to-fly CRJ1000 NextGen…

Business & GA

Spn Stands for Single-Pilot Operation

When Switzerland’s Grob Aerospace launched its spn business jet at the 2005 Paris Air Show, one of the aircraft’s ground-breaking features was its adoption of Honeywell’s new Primus Apex avionic suite. Designed…