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Commercial

American Airlines Uses Naverus RNP

An American Airlines flight on Aug. 26 became the first-ever U.S. flight to use a publicly available, commercial designed Required Navigation Performance approach, according to GE Aviation and its Naverus subsidiary. American Airlines 737 NG…

ATM Modernization

Northrop Grumman Wins Korean ATC Contract

Northrop Grumman's Europe-based air traffic management subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, has been awarded a contract by Korea's Public Procurement Service to provide an air traffic communication system for air-ground communication…

ATM Modernization

Norway ANSP Selects Sensis Equipment

Avinor AS, Norway's Air Navigation Service Provider, selected Sensis Corp.'s multilateration and VeeLo NextGen vehicle locators for Bergen Airport, Flesland, to provide surveillance of the runways, taxiways and stand areas along with…

ATM Modernization

Metron Launches ATFM System for Airlines

Metron Aviation, based in Dulles, Va., released Metron Harmony for Airlines, a system that integrates a real-time and predictive view of air traffic conditions with airport surface operations to improve on-time performance, reduce tarmac delays, lower…

Commercial

Boeing Launches 787 Pilot Certification

Boeing has started 787 Dreamliner flight certification training following the provisional approval from FAA for Boeing's Seattle-based 787 flight training devices. As part of flight training, pilots train on a 787 flat…

Commercial

Rockwell Collins to Provide STUAS Flight Controls

Rockwell Collins was selected to provide flight control and navigation systems for the Small Tactical Unmanned Air System (STUAS) program, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based company announced Tuesday. Boeing subsidiary Insitu, of Bingen,…

Commercial

QinetiQ Files for Records for Solar UAS

U.K.-based QinetiQ has filed for three world records for Zephyr, its solar powered high-altitude long endurance (HALE) Unmanned Air System (UAS), with the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), the company announced Tuesday. The records,…

Commercial

Lockheed Martin Awarded U.K. UAV Contract

The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence awarded Lockheed Martin a $5.1 million contract for additional Desert Hawk III unmanned aircraft vehicles. Awarded by the MoD's Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) organization, the…