Latest Articles by Tish Drake

Military

Boeing Wins Airborne Satcom Contract

Boeing was awarded a $3.4 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide 46 additional Combat Track II airborne satellite communications systems. Boeing said it has delivered nearly 500 Combat…

Commercial

NIKI Selects Teledyne's Data Monitoring System

Austria-based carrier NIKI selected data monitoring products from Teledyne Controls, of El Segundo, Calif., for five of its Embraer ERJ 190, plus five on option. The selected equipment includes Teledyne’s integrated Data Management…

Business & GA

Avalex Wins STC for Digital Map

Avalex Technologies, of Pensacola, Fla., earned a FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) for its Digital Map System used in the Eurocopter EC-145. The company said the STC will be important for attracting new commercial…

Business & GA

Meggitt to Use Green Hills Software

Meggitt Control Systems announced plans to use a software development package from Green Hills Software, of Santa Barbara, Calif., to build a cabin air temperature control system for private cabin-class jets. The Meggitt Control Systems’ bleed…

Business & GA

West Star Completes Lear 60 Avionics Install

West Star Aviation, of Grand Junction, Colo., completed the installation of various avionics systems on a Lear 60. The installation included the Dual Universal UNS-1Ew Flight Management Systems with WAAS (West Star…

Military

Lockheed Martin Awarded F/A-18E/F Contract

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $4 million contract by Boeing for the technology development phase of the F/A-18E/F Infrared Search and Track (IRST) program. The technology development contract follows a two-year pre-system…

Business & GA

Jet Public Selects Aircell System

Jet Public, a European business jet operator based in Lisbon, Portugal, selected Aircell’s SwiftBroadband system for its fleet. Covering 110 systems, the order represents the largest SwiftBroadband system order ever placed, according to…

Business & GA

EMS Satcom Delivers eNfusion System

EMS Satcom delivered the first of its new single SwiftBroadband channel eNfusion HSD-Xi High-speed Data Terminal, installed on a U.S.-based Bombardier CL-605. The terminal adds one SwiftBroadband and one Swift 64 channel…