CommercialHoneywell to Shut Avionics Plant Honeywell said it plans to shut down its avionics manufacturing facility in Teterboro, N.J., and plans to sell the company to a real-estate development company. The 68-year-old manufacturing plant, which makes flight…
MilitaryInterSense Wins L-3 Simulation Contract InterSense, Inc. won a contract from L-3 Communications Link Simulation and Training division to supply five additional suites of its IS-900 inertial-acoustic helmet tracking system to support the U.S. Army's Aviation Combined…
MilitaryBoeing Completes AEW&C Systems Integration Boeing said it completed the integration of major subsystems aboard a 737 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft for Australia’s Project Wedgetail. The subsystems include communications, navigation, mission computing, radar and…
Business & GAIntegrated Flight Deck STC Avidyne Corp., Lincoln, Mass., and S-TEC Corp., Mineral Wells, Texas, received a supplemental type certificate from the FAA for installation of the Alliant Integrated Flight Deck on Beechcraft King Air E90- and…
MilitaryFAA Certifies Honeywell Collision Avoidance System Honeywell said its Military Airborne Collision Avoidance System - Formation Rendezvous (MILACAS-FR), selected by Boeing for the C-17 Formation Flying System, has been certified by the FAA for use on all military…
Business & GANippon Cargo Airlines to Use Rockwell Collins Nippon Cargo Airlines will use the Rockwell Collins avionics suite on its six new Boeing 747-400F aircraft. Deliveries are set to begin in October 2007 and run through February 2009. Among the…
CommercialA380 Makes First U.S. Flight The Airbus A380 made its long-delayed U.S. debut on Monday, flying from Frankfurt, Germany, to New York’s JFK Airport. The A380, which suffered two years of production delays and has cost builder…
ATM ModernizationEra Deploys MSS at Czech Airport Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic launched Era Corp.’s Multisensor Surveillance System (MSS) and automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) services at its new Integrated ATC Center in Jenec, near Prague. Era, formerly…