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Avionics

Mid-Continent Introduces Two-inch Back-up CDI

Mid-Continent Instruments introduced a two-inch course deviation indicator (CDI) miniature backup.
Avionics

Flight Display Systems Unveils the ‘Flipper’

The Flipper from Flight Display Systems is a $5,000 fold-down LCD display that mounts to the underside of the glareshield, allowing it to be flipped up and
Avionics

AirCell Axxess Certified for Wireless Broadband

AirCell displayed at the NBAA Convention the newly certified wireless function of its Axxess satcom system for business jets.
Avionics

Sagem Targets Part 25 Cockpit Retrofits

Sagem Avionics and General Dynamics Aviation Services are partnering on a glass-panel cockpit upgrade for Part 25 jets including the Challenger 600 and 601
Avionics

S-Tec, Avidyne Gain STC for King Air Cockpits

The Alliant integrated avionics and autopilot suite received an STC for installation in the Beech King Air 200 during the NBAA Convention.
Avionics

Arinc Rides to Rescue of Collins eXchange

Rockwell Collins will be able to continue providing satellite broadband network service to its eXchange business aircraft customers thanks to a deal announ
Avionics

Pro Line 21 Selected for New Citations, Hawkers

Rockwell Collins was the big winner of cockpit positions in airplanes introduced at NBAA’06.
Avionics

Challenger 605, Learjet 60XR Avionics Approved

Bombardier Aerospace announced that on October 5 Transport Canada granted approval for the Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics suite and aircraft window
Avionics

Honeywell demonstrates SVS

Over the last month-and-a-half Honeywell has been giving the trade and general press firsthand demos of the most recent version of its developmental synthe

Riding the roller coaster

Skyrocketing jet fuel prices did almost nothing to slow down high-flying business jet travelers, who collectively took to the skies in record numbers this

NBAA Convention News celebrates 35 years

It’s hard to believe, but the magazine you’re holding in your hands is entering its 35th year.
Avionics

ACSS offers technology to halt runway accidents

The crash of Comair Flight 5191 in the early morning darkness of August 27 has given pause to the entire aviation community.

Attendees, exhibitors flock to NBAA for record-setting show

Enormous banners that hung from the façade of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando last month proclaimed the NBAA Convention offered “A year’s wo
Avionics

Movers & Shakers: AirCell dreams of a broadband revolution

In the months since AirCell won an FCC frequency-spectrum auction to provide wireless broadband connectivity to airplanes flying high above the continental

Industry Perspective: Brazilian manufacture's ambitions center on full family of business jets

When Embraer decided to enter the business jet market after the successful launch of a family of regional airliners in the 1990s, the company’s chief execu
Avionics

Honeywell gives the world a glimpse into the future

Charles Lindbergh knew it, and every pilot who has come after him has known it, too: if only there were some way of seeing through the clouds, of turning a
Accidents

Legacy pilots in midair face ordeal

Brazilian authorities held two U.S.

Attendees, exhibitors flock to NBAA for record-setting show

Enormous banners that hung from the façade of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando last month proclaimed the NBAA Convention offered “A year’s wo
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Aircraft

The ‘Little Jet That Could’ Just Became the Jet That Did

Eclipse Aviation received FAA type certification for the Eclipse 500 on September 30, becoming the second very light jet manufacturer to achieve the milest
Avionics

Piper Bringing Avidyne Entegra Cockpit to Meridian Turboprop Single

The Piper Meridian turboprop single will soon receive a production-line upgrade to Avidyne’s Entegra cockpit as a replacement for the airplane’s original M
Avionics

S-Tec putting final touches on new digital autopilot line

If company marketing executives have their way, expect a flurry of announcements from autopilot maker Meggitt/S-Tec in the coming months.
Avionics

Gulfstream G550 and G500 Awarded Broadband Hardware STC

Gulfstream has received a third STC for installation of high-speed Broad Band Multi-Link (BBML) data systems, this time in the ultra-long-range G550/G500.
Aircraft

Raytheon Renames Garmin-equipped Piston Aircraft

Perhaps an indication of the sway Garmin has come to hold in the aviation industry, Raytheon last month announced a name change for the venerable Beech Bon
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Arinc and Telenor Launch AeroMobile Cellular Service

Preparing for the day when aircraft passengers are allowed to make cellphone calls in flight, Arinc and Telenor have created AeroMobile, a new service that
Safety

FAA Issues Another Primus Epic AD

After publishing a series of airworthiness directives earlier this year aimed at operators of certain aircraft equipped with Honeywell Primus Epic avionics
Avionics

Boeing Enlists Communications Firm To Develop Wireless EFB Technology

Boeing has selected Broadbeam, a New Jersey-based mobile communication specialist, to develop wireless electronic flight bag (EFB) technology for airlines.
ATC

Iridium in Talks with Manufacturers on Satellite Replacement Strategy

Iridium has entered into preliminary discussions with satellite manufacturers about potential replacements for its network of low-earth-orbit communication
Avionics

Cockpit upgrade STCs open floodgates

The scene at a recent aviation trade show illustrates perfectly what has become an industry-wide dilemma.
Avionics

Avidyne Introduces Datalink for General Aviation

Avidyne used the stage at Sun ’n’ Fun in Lakeland, Fla., last month to launch a suite of datalink services for general aviation.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Cabin Electronics: Creating an office in the sky

As anyone who has flown aboard a private jet can attest, whiling away the time en route with a good book, sampling the catering or just engaging in some qu