ATM ModernizationSESAR Conducts FREE Solutions Demo Workshop Photo: SESAR JU [Avionics Magazine 09-02-2016] Free Route Environmental & Efficient (FREE) route operations are possible in Europe and can significantly reduce flight, times, congestions and the impact to the environment. This…
CommercialFinnair Signs with ViaSat for In-Flight Connectivity, EL AL in Customer Trials Airbus A320-200 OH-LXF of Finnair in Rome Fiumicino Airport, Italy. Photo: Wikimedia Commons [Avionics Magazine 09-01-2016] Finnair has announced it has signed an agreement with ViaSat to install a high-speed wireless Internet…
CommercialHybrid and PRL Logistics Partner to Bring Hybrid Airships To Alaska The LMH-1 Hybrid Airship. Photo: PR Newswire [Avionics Magazine 09-01-2016] Hybrid Enterprises, worldwide reseller of Lockheed Martin's Hybrid Airships, has announced a strategic partnership between PRL Logistics and U.K.-based Hybrid Airship owner…
Business & GAPan Am International Flight Academy to Purchase Cessna Skyhawk 172s Cessna Skyhawk. Photo: Textron Aviation [Avionics Magazine 09-01-2016] Cessna Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation, announced during the Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) that it has signed a multi-year agreement…
Business & GAElliot Aviation Achieves STC for Garmin ADS-B for Beechcraft Premier I and IA Hawker Beechcraft 390 Premier IA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons [Avionics Magazine 09-01-2016] Elliott Aviation announced its STC certification on a Garmin ADS-B Out and In solution for the Beechcraft Premier I and IA…
CommercialGogo Names John Wade COO Gogo’s new COO John Wade. Photo: Gogo [Avionics Today 08-31-2016] Gogo has promoted John Wade to the role of executive vice president and chief operating officer of Gogo. Wade has more than…
ConnectivityIndonesia Orders ATG Antennas to Improve Air Traffic Communications [Avionics Today 08-31-2016] Indonesia’s Pratama Wahyu Teknik (PWT), a communications systems integrator headquartered near Jakarata, has contracted the ASC signal division of Communications and Power Industries (CPI) for High-Frequency (HF) air-to-ground communications…
ATM ModernizationPacific Avionics and Instruments to Deliver First Beechcraft 1900D Flight Deck Modernization Beechcraft 1900D of the Swiss Air Force. Photo: Wikimedia [Avionics Today 08-31-2016] Pacific Avionics and Instruments (PAI) has received a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) to perform Beechcraft 1900D flight deck modernization. Launch…