Rockwell Collins is combining its Future Airspace Navigation System 1/A upgrade for Bombardier Challenger 604, Falcon 50EX, Falcon 2000 and Falcon 2000EX aircraft equipped with the company’s avionics with an annual subscription to its premium suite of ARINCDirect flight-support mobile applications and services, the company said.
Vision Systems, which supplies SPD-Smart Electronically Dimmable Windows for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), has expanded into the aftermarket, the company said. The company is working in Switzerland with RUAG Aviation, a supplier of aircraft systems and components for civil and military customers. Vision Systems’ Noctic brand of electronic dimmable windows are flying as an aftermarket product on a Dassault Falcon 900 jet. Vision Systems is a licensee of Research Frontiers.
Cessna continues to benefit from the growth of flight training in China, announcing the sales of 11 Skyhawk 172 aircraft as schools ramp up to meet the country’s voracious appetite for pilots.
Boeing expects that the 777 will be its candidate for an expected Australian government requirement for ministerial transport aircraft, though the 787 is also a possibility.
FlightSafety International has received an order from the Civil Aviation University of China to design and build a King Air C90GTX full-flight simulator, the company said.
Deer Jet’s maintenance sector has grown to encompass a partnership with Dassault Aviation, giving the Beijing-based company a fourth partnership with a major business aviation manufacturer.
Rates for international flights are no higher than for domestic services in the latest version of the jet card program of Chinese business aircraft operator Deer Jet.
Beijing’s general aviation industry park is promoting the establishment of a network of heliports in China, with the aim of making rotary-wing ferry flights a common form of transportation in the country.
New Zealand-based Composite Helicopters International (CHI) says it received almost 150 orders after its development aircraft made their international debuts at the Heli-Expo 2015 conference in Orlando, Florida, in March.
A CDN$155 million ($123 million) deal with Bell Helicopter is the second contract for helicopters placed by the Canadian Department of Fisheries & Oceans—the umbrella agency for the Coast Guard—following a May 2014 order for 15 Bell 429s.
Chris Emerson, senior vice president and head of marketing with Airbus in Toulouse, France, has been appointed president and CEO of Airbus Helicopters, effective June. 1. In his role, Emerson will lead Airbus Helicopters North America Region. Emerson will replace Marc Paganini, who has accepted a position as Airbus Group’s head of special projects. Paganini had served as head of Airbus Helicopters, based in Grand Prairie, Texas, since January 2003.
Bombardier has announced that Mike Arcamone has been replaced as president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft by Fred Cromer, formerly president of powerful lessor International Lease Corp. (ILFC).
Darpa is taking advantage of industry efforts already underway to get an early start on its program to demonstrate a drop-in kit to automate existing aircraft, reducing the onboard crew required, and that can be removed and transferred to a different aircraft type.
Jet Aviation Basel, based in Switzerland, recently developed a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Supplemental Type Certificate for its Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, or TCAS II, version 7.1 upgrade. TCAS II provides vertical rate "Resolution Advisories" to pilots, informing them when and how to adjust their vertical speed in order to avoid collisions.
