RegulationEASA Opens Regional Office in Singapore EASA’s regional office in Singapore is officially open. The European regulator said this is its fourth regional office; others are in Washington, D.C., Montreal and Beijing. “We [have] cooperate[d] with CAAS on…
Embedded AvionicsUniversal Avionics InSight Now has Jeppesen Data Jeppesen has agreed to provide its airport mapping database to Universal Avionics’ new InSight Display System, the Boeing company said. Announced during the National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas, the…
Business & GAHuerta Gives Final NBAA-BACE Speech as FAA Admin As Michael Huerta’s term as FAA administrator draws to a close, he addressed the National Business Aviation Association as such one last time during the Business Aviation Convention & Exposition in Las…
CommercialNASA Gives Aurora Another Year for D8 X-Plane Development Future Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences is set to continue developing the subsonic D8 X-Plane (XD8), Aurora said. NASA has awarded the firm with a 12-month contract. The XD8 program aims to…
ConnectivityHoneywell CNX-900 Upgrade Enables Wireless Database Loading The upgrade for Honeywell’s CNX-900 router allows business aviation operators to use wireless database loading, the manufacturer said. Aircraft equipped with Honeywell Primus Epic can, with the update, remotely stage flight navigation…
ATM Modernization10 More Aireon ADS-B Payloads are Now in Orbit Aireon has launched and deployed the third batch of 10 Iridium Next satellites with ADS-B payloads, the company said. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in…
ConnectivitySatcom Direct, ForeFlight Team for Integrated Data Solution Satcom Direct and ForeFlight have introduced a new integrated data solution, Satcom Direct said. The product is for joint Satcom Direct Router and ForeFlight Performance customers. The router can now be used…
Business & GAGulfstream G650ER Flies Again at Record Pace Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.’s G650ER should be able to add to its list of accomplished records, the company said. If approved by the U.S. National Aeronautic Association, the records would be sent to…