Latest Articles by James T. McKenna

ATM Modernization

Dutch ANSP, Aireon to Evaluate Space-Based ADS-B

Aireon and the Netherlands’ air navigation service provider have agreed to evaluate the cost and efficiency of space-based ADS-B as a secondary and contingency air traffic surveillance system. Aireon said the memorandum…

Regulation

FAA Overhauls Its Aircraft Certification Ops

The U.S. FAA is implementing wholesale changes in its approval of civil aircraft and aviation products through a complete reorganization of its Aircraft Certification Service. Aircraft Certification Service leaders have spent more…

Military

Ukraine Transport Maker Seeks US Partnership

Ukrainian aircraft maker Antonov has told visiting U.S. members of Congress that it wants to cooperate with America in developing a new medium-weight, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft based on its four-propfan An-70 tactical military…

Embedded Avionics

Intelsat Orbits New Connectivity Satellite

Intelsat is in the process of checking out an advanced, high-performance satellite intended in part to support Global Eagle Entertainment’s global C- and Ku-band in-flight connectivity services following the space bird’s Wednesday launch.…

ATM Modernization

India Upgrading Civil Radar in Northeast

Airports Authority of India is installing new surveillance radars at the primary international airport in the country’s northeast. The installation is a part of an ongoing initiative to modernize India’s air navigation…

ATM Modernization

36 US Groups Unite in Opposing ATC Privatization

The debate over proposals to restructure U.S. air traffic control is heating up with the onset of the American summer. On the eve of the July 4 Independence Day holiday — the…