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Business & GA

AeroVironment Founder Dies

Founder and former chairman of AeroVironment, Paul MacCready, died Tuesday. MacCready founded Monrovia, Calif.-based AeroVironment in 1971. This month, the company celebrated the 30th anniversary of the record-setting flight of the human…

Commercial

Aeroflex Inks Deal in China

Aeroflex, Wichita, Kan., is partnering with Ameco Beijing (Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Corp.) to provide a local service center for Chinese customers, an attempt to capitalize on the rapidly growing avionics market…

Editor's Note

VMETRO Buys Micro Memory

Norway-based VMETRO will acquire Micro Memory LLC, a privately held Chatsworth, Calif.-based provider of board-level products for streaming signal and image processing, real-time data acquisition, memory nodes and Enterprise Network Storage. Financial…

Commercial

Air China Approved for RNP on A319 Fleet

Air China received approval to conduct required navigation performance (RNP) operations with its Airbus A319 fleet. Naverus, which manufactured the system, said last week an Air China A319 departed Lhasa, China, using…

Military

Boeing Wins Antenna Contract

Boeing received a $20 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide antennas for the E-3 military airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft. The antennas, which are located in the…

Commercial

Jeppesen Participates in RNP Pilot Program

Jeppesen, Englewood, Colo., has been invited by the FAA to participate in a pilot program that will allow third-party vendors to develop, quality assure, flight test and maintain Required Navigation Performance (RNP)…

Military

BAE Wins Amplifier Development Deal

BAE Systems received an $8 million contract to develop high-power amplifier technology capable of guarding U.S. forces against radar-guided missile threats. Under a contract with the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, with funding…

Military

Metronor to Develop HMD for Gripen

Norway-based Metronor AS and Saab signed an agreement to develop and adapt an electro-optical system for boresight/harmonization of the helmet tracker system for the Saab Gripen fighter’s Helmet Mounted Display and Sight…