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Commercial

Honeywell Awarded Vietnam Airlines Contract

Vietnam Airlines has awarded a $100 million avionics and auxiliary power unit (APU) contract to Honeywell for its fleet of 36 new and 22 existing Airbus A321s. Honeywell said it will work…

Commercial

Teledyne Awarded Data Loader STC

Teledyne Controls, of El Segundo, Calif., received FAA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) for its enhanced Airborne Data Loader (eADL) and wireless communication system AirLAN on Continental Airlines’ Boeing 737-NGs. With Teledyne’s AirLAN and eADL, Continental…

Commercial

China Eastern Airlines Selects Thales IFE

China Eastern Airlines selected the TopSeries in-flight entertainment (IFE) system from Thales for 16 of its new A330-200s. The first aircraft is schedule to deliver in November 2011. Thales said the system enables…

Business & GA

Universal, Western Aircraft Partner on Falcon

Universal Avionics, of Tucson, Ariz., and Western Aircraft, of Boise, Idaho, have partnered to develop a cockpit for the Dassault Falcon 900B. The cockpit upgrade will replace 25 older instruments, and will include…

Commercial

Tibet Airlines Selects Rockwell Collins Systems

Tibet Airlines selected Rockwell Collins to provide a suite of avionics for the airline's Airbus A319s. The systems will initially be installed on nine of Tibet's new Airbus A319 aircraft, with an option…

Commercial

Thales to Create IFE Venture in China

Thales said Tuesday it signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) and a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China Electronics Technology Avionics, (CETCA) whose parent company…

Commercial

Xiamen Airlines Selects Rockwell Collins

Xiamen Airlines has selected a suite of Rockwell Collins avionics, including MultiScan Threat Detection System and GLU-925 Multi-Mode Receiver (MMR) for 25 Boeing 737NGs. Deliveries will begin in July 2011. MultiScan is…

Embedded Avionics

F-35 Software Blocks Begins Tests

Lockheed Martin said Monday the "fundamental building block" for all future avionics software on its F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter has entered flight testing on an F-35 test jet. "Block 1,"…