Business & GA

HongKong Jet to Purchase Asia Jet

HongKong Jet has offered to purchase Asia Jet. Photo: Asia Jet [Avionics Today 04-14-2016] Hongkong Corporate Jet Management has made a formal offer to purchase Asia Jet Partners and the two aircraft…

Business & GA

SmartSky Adopts Software-Defined NFV Network

Photo: SmartSky Networks [Avionics Today 04-14-2016] In another key to unlocking SmartSky Networks’ big capacity claims for its Air-to-Ground (ATG) broadband network, the compay announced that it will use Brocade and VMware’s…

ATM Modernization

Universal Avionics Tests CPDLC DCL, Explains Benefits

[Avionics Magazine 04-14-2016] At the end of March, the FAA's Data Communications Implementation Team published a Controller Pilot Data Link Communication Departure Clearance Service (CPDLC-DCL) flight deck user guide to prepare pilots…

Business & GA

Airbus Corporate Jets Scores First Ka-band Retrofit Deals

ACJ319neo. Photo: Airbus [Avionics Today 04-13-2016] Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) has won its first contracts to retrofit ACJ aircraft with Ka-band satellite communications. ACJ struck the contracts with Comlux and an undisclosed…

Commercial

Alaska Air Orders 30 E175 Jets

Alaska Air Embraer E175. Photo: Embraer [Avionics Today 04-13-2016] Embraer and Horizon Air have signed a firm order for 30 E175 jets. The contract, which also includes options for another 33 aircraft…

Embedded Avionics

US Army Calls for Information on C4ISR/EW MORA

[Avionics Today 04-13-2016] The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) Intelligence Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) is seeking information on how an interested contractor could implement a converged Command, Control,…