Business & GAAgustaWestland Selects Meggitt Display AgustaWestland selected a secondary flight display (SFD) from U.K.-based Meggitt Avionics for its AW101 medium lift, AW139 medium-sized, multi-role twin-engined and AB212 utility helicopters. Meggitt's iSFD is its third generation solid-state secondary flight…
CommercialUnmanned UCAS-D Makes First Flight The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command and Northrop Grumman announced the first flight Feb. 4 of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) aircraft, three and a half years after contract…
CommercialPanasonic Signs LOI with COMAC Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) to provide communications systems for COMAC’s C919 aircraft, the companies said Friday.…
ATM ModernizationFAA Funds ADS-B For JetBlue A320s JetBlue Airways will equip up to 35 Airbus A320s with ADS-B capability, including the ACSS SafeRoute suite of ADS-B applications, in a demonstration funded with $4.2 million from FAA. The so-called partnership…
Business & GAEurocopter Opens North Sea Facility Eurocopter on Tuesday officially inaugurated its new North Sea Service Center in Aberdeen, Scotland. The facility will be provide training, technical support and logistics facility in close proximity to helicopter operators who…
Embedded AvionicsRaytheon Awarded P-8A Radar Contract Boeing has awarded Raytheon a low rate initial production contract to develop six long-range, multimission maritime and overland surveillance radars plus spares for its P-8A Poseidon. Financial terms of the contract were…
Business & GAITT to Begin Production of AN/ALQ-211 ITT Corp. was awarded a follow-on $37 million contract for full-rate production of the AN/ALQ-211 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite (AIDEWS), an integrated situational awareness and self-protection system to be installed…
Business & GACobham to Supply EFIS for LAPD The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has selected Cobham to supply its Synthetic Vision Electronic Flight Instrument Systems (EFIS) for its fleet of 19 Eurocopter and Bell helicopters. The LAPD rotorcraft will…