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Nextant Aerospace last month expanded the available options for its Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 Beechjet 400A/XP cockpit retrofit program.

Avidyne last month introduced the Entegra PFD4000, an eight-inch primary flight display system intended to compete with Garmin’s G600 retrofit display prod

Universal Avionics has landed a deal with Hawker Beechcraft to provide flat-panel glass display and flight management system upgrades in the Hawker 700B.

Although EAA’s AirVenture 2008 wasn’t a big show for avionics manufacturers, Honeywell’s Bendix/King showed that the manufacturer is serious about the gene

Garmin announced at EAA AirVenture that its G600 combined PFD/MFD six-pack instrument cluster replacement unit received FAA TSO approval and is now availab

Aspen Avionics announced an expanded roster of airplanes approved for installation of its EFD1000 Evolution PFD, now available for more than 600 makes and

When the FAA called in March for public comment on its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on ADS-B equipage, it was with the understanding that there was

Everybody in aviation has heard about NextGen, the buzzterm that stands for the ponderous Next Generation Air Transportation System.

The prospect of instituting near-term ATC improvements as industry waits for the arrival of NextGen in the 2020s seems now to have been delayed for at leas

Bell Helicopter in July at the Farnborough 2008 airshow strongly hinted it is about to transfer more work to partner AgustaWestland in the protracted BA609

Sikorsky has nearly finished building its X2 coaxial compound helicopter demonstrator in Elmira, N.Y.

While many politicians enjoy “fact-finding” trips to far-flung places during their vacations, Georgia Gov.

Eurocopter CEO Lutz Bertling in July predicted that the company would sell between 650 and 700 helicopters this year, up from previous expectations of 600.

South African-based maintenance specialist Thunder City is offering for Eurocopter Pumas a modernization program that the company claims  extends the

AgustaWestland has announced that orders in the first half of this year have risen by 10 percent over the same period last year, to U1.62 billion ($2.5 bil

American Eurocopter is adding 150 employees at its Golden Triangle plant in Mississippi over the next 18 to 24 months to support an increased production ra

Boeing plans to expand the flight envelope of its unmanned vertical aerial vehicle A160T Hummingbird from the Southern California Logistics Airport in Vict

AgustaWestland has announced a weight upgrade and Russian assembly plans for the AW139 medium twin, while new helicopter models are in development and a se

AgustaWestland last year invested 11 percent of its revenues in research and development.

In October, PremiAir will move into a newly refurbished hangar at Oxford Airport near London.

Constant Aviation has become the first Ohio maintenance facility to receive an FAA Class 4 repair station rating.

What do you do with an airplane when you’re done flying it and no one wants to buy it? According to Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions (AELS) of Delft, Netherl

M7 Aerospace and San Antonio Aircraft Support (SAAS) have launched a major modification center combining M7’s maintenance and engineering expertise with SA

ExecuJet South Africa is adding maintenance services at its new FBO at Cape Town International Airport.

Dassault Aviation and Unijet, two companies that have a long history at Paris Le Bourget, have been selected to operate from the new terminal at the dedica

ExecuJet Aviation and Hawker Pacific have begun operating the new Skypark FBO at Kuala Lumpur’s Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft this year will deliver six more of its corporate-configured, four-engine Avro RJs for a variety of business and government op

French company Simav is developing a new thermal process, thermolysis, to recycle the carbon fiber contained in composite materials and claims that its pro

The FAA has begun trials of four separate systems designed to automatically detect, report and pinpoint the location of foreign objects on airport runways.

Operators in the future will possibly be able to use X-rays from pulsating stars–or pulsars– light years away from earth to navigate with the same accuracy