Commercial

ARINC Unveils Communications Module

ARINC, Annapolis, Md., unveiled a wireless data communications module designed to bring portable connectivity to airline passenger cabin operations. The Mobile Communications Gateway (MCG), ARINC said, is specifically designed to support airlines’…

Commercial

CAE Buys Flightscape Inc.

Canadian simulator company CAE will pay $17 million to acquire Flightscape Inc., an Ottawa-based safety company providing flight data analysis and flight sciences. CAE said Flightscape's product offerings are based on the…

Commercial

Rockwell Buys ISR Engineering Company

Rockwell Collins said it paid $38 million in cash for Information Technology and Applications Corp. (ITAC), a privately held engineering and products company that provides intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) and communications services.…

Military

Northrop Grumman Wins IT Training Pact

Northrop Grumman won a contract valued up to $100 million from FlightSafety Services Corp., Centennial, Colo., to provide information technology and training services for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System Ground Based…

Commercial

Virgin America Begins Revenue Operations

Start-up airline Virgin America was to conduct inaugural flights today from New York Kennedy and Los Angeles International airports to its home base at San Francisco International Airport. Virgin America’s Airbus A320s…

Military

Raytheon Wins Super Hornet Radar Pact

Raytheon won a $24.4 million contract with the U.S. Navy to equip Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18F Super Hornets with the ALR-67(V)3 digital radar warning receiver. The contract, which Raytheon said…

Commercial

CAE Nets $48 Million Orders

Canadian simulator company CAE said it signed contracts to design and manufacture three CAE 7000 Series full-flight simulators (FFSs) and a suite of Boeing 787 maintenance training devices. The total value of…

Commercial

American Launches Broadband Tests

American Airlines said it is partnering with AirCell to become one of the first U.S.-based airline to launch in-flight broadband capabilities as it begins testing services in the United States in 2008.…