Business & GA

SkyTrac Signs Satcom Deal with Sloan

SkyTrac, Kelowna, British Columbia, will provide satellite communication and flight following systems to Sloan Helicopters, Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sloan Helicopters, a provider of charter services for…

Military

General Dynamics Wins Radome Contract

General Dynamics was selected by Boeing to provide wideband radomes for the F-15 Radar Modernization Program (RMP). Financial terms were not disclosed. The contract covers the design, development and production of wideband…

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…

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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…

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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…