Commercial
Thales to Supply A350 Avionics
Thales will provide avionics and cockpit systems for Airbus’s new long-range, wide-body A350, a contract expected to generate up to $2.9 billion over the 20-year life of the contract. The package includes…
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Military
BAE Delivers UAV Sensors
BAE Systems delivered five target detection systems to the U.S. Army for use on Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The company said the AURORA Generation IV remote sensing system, a lightweight, wide-area…
Commercial
CAE Inks $44 Million in Contracts
CAE signed contracts to manufacture full-flight simulators (FFS), and a suite of its Simfinity training devices, for Qantas, Hainan Airlines, Airbus, Atlas Air, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Blue. The contracts are valued…
Business & GA
EMTEQ Becomes Certified Repair Station
EMTEQ, New Berlin, Wis., was granted its Air Agency Certificate E3TR548Y by the FAA in November 2007. As a certified repair station, EMTEQ is authorized to issue Return to Service tags and…
Commercial
Jeppesen, Singapore Airlines Ink Deal
Jeppesen, Englewood, Colo., signed an agreement with Singapore Airlines for Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) applications, traditional paper chart services and OpsData services. Jeppesen already provides the airline with Class III EFB services…
Military
Super Hornets Retrofitted with AESA
The U.S. Navy is retrofitting 135 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets with Raytheon's active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, in an initial contract worth up to $55 million, the company said. Under terms of…
Commercial
V Australia Selects Rockwell Collins
V Australia, the new international long-haul airline of Australia launched recently by Virgin Blue, selected a suite of Rockwell Collins avionics for seven firm and six option Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Deliveries are…
Commercial
American Completes First Aircell Installation
American Airlines completed the first aircraft installation of the Aircell Internet broadband connectivity system at its Kansas City, Mo., maintenance facility. American plans to test the technology in 2008 on all 15…