FAA issued the first restricted type certificates to permit commercial operations with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) recently, authorizing Insitu's Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment's PUMA to begin flying commercial missions within the National…
Rockwell Collins on Monday announced a new agreement at the EAA AirVenture show to begin automatically transferring Jeppesen electronic flight charts to flight decks using its Ascend Aircraft Information Manager (AIM). …
Northrop Grumman raised its 2013 financial outlook after posting a strong second quarter, aided by work on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The aerospace and defense contractor's second quarter net…
Garmin is expanding some of its avionics offerings to Europe, as the company announced several new certifications Thursday from EASA. (G1000 avionics suite. Photo, courtesy of Garmin.) EASA became…
Panasonic Avionics on Thursday signed an agreement with China Telecom Satellite Communications (China Telecom Satellite) to support in-flight connectivity in the dynamic and growing Chinese market. The signing of the memorandum…
FAA on Thursday issued a new airworthiness directive requiring all U.S.-based operators of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner passenger jet to either inspect or remove the aircraft's fixed emergency locator transmitter (ELT). …
Air traffic controllers at Denver International Airport (DEN) and Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL) are beginning to use Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology to track airport ground vehicles with the installation of…
Brazil's civil aviation authority has issued a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for StandardAero to begin installing Honeywell Primus Elite cockpit displays on Dassault Falcon 900EX and 900C aircraft. (A StandardAero…