SEATTLE, 10 May 2012. Performance-based Navigation (PBN) flight paths designed by GE were validated at Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport in the Sichuan Province of China. The event marks the first public PBN project initiated by a Chinese airport. The paths will be available to all approved aircraft operators: Air China, China Eastern, and Sichuan Airlines will fly the precise flight paths.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, 3 May 2012. Hundreds of avionics engineers and aviation industry executives gathered at the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) and Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) General Session in Anchorage, Alaska. Air transport professionals hashed out, over four days, a wealth of current and upcoming avionics challenges, including: NextGen and SESAR equipage, intellectual property and export licensing, electronic flight bags, data links, and more.

RESTON, Va., 3 May 2012. C4i recently released the latest product in its SwitchplusIP communications suite. The Advanced Multi-Interface Interoperable Communications Systems (AMICS).

TEWKSBURY, Mass., 30 April 2012. Two Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN) systems, the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) and the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, demonstrated their ability to work together to detect, track and shoot down a test target during an exercise at the Utah Training and Test Range.

TEMPE, Ariz., 29 April 2012. StandardAero Business Aviation in Tempe, Ariz., has finished the first two avionics upgrades on the Dassault Falcon 900EX/DX/LX series aircraft flight deck. The upgrades involve installing the Honeywell EASy II avionics, which provides hardware and software upgrades for improved pilot vision, enhanced navigation, and clear weather information.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. 25 April 2012. General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), received a contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for radios that allow air traffic control personnel to communicate with commercial and military aircraft throughout the National Airspace System (NAS).

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., 24 April 2012. The U.S. Navy has purchased two radar systems from Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) as part of a continuing effort to replace analog air traffic control systems with digital technology. The new radars will be installed at military bases in New River, N.C., and Quantico, Va.

CHARLESTON, S.C., 20 April 2012. North American Jet Charter Group (NAJ) has been approved for a paperless cockpit on Part 135 flights. The Apple iPad now serves as the electronic flight bag (EFB) for all Eclipse Jets operated by NAJ, the largest North American operator of Eclipse Aerospace’s Eclipse Jet.

SAO PAULO, 20 April 2012. Boeing (NYSE:BA) will open Boeing Research & Technology-Brazil, a research and technology center in Sao Paulo where Boeing engineers will work with Brazil’s leading researchers and scientists to develop aerospace technologies.

LONDON, Ontario, 18 April 2012. General aviation specialist Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc. in London, Ontario, has received certification for the company's regular and special mission versions of the four-seat DA42 NG twin-engine diesel-powered aircraft from Transport Canada in Ottawa, the Canadian government transportation authority.

MONTREAL, 16 April 2012. Officials of business jet expert Bombardier Aerospace in Montreal announced the company's first delivery of the Bombardier Vision Flight Deck on a Global 6000 business aviation jet aircraft. The aircraft will be operated by Wideworld Services Ltd. in Cambridge, England.

FRANKFURT, Germany, 5 April 2012. A ban on night flights will remain in effect until further notice at Frankfurt Airport, Germany -- Europe's third-busiest air hub -- which could impose severe long-term financial difficulty on the German flag passenger carrier Lufthansa, which operates at Frankfurt as the airline's primary operating base.

LONDON, 29 March 2012. Northrop Grumman Corp.'s (NYSE:NOC) Europe-based air traffic management systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, has been awarded a contract by the NATO Consultation, Command and Control (NATO C3) Agency to provide a second air traffic control receiver site for Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON, 27 March 2012. The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has finalized a firm-fixed-price contract with Al Yah Satellite Company (Yahsat), a United Arab Emirates-based multipurpose satellite operator, to design and build active electronically steered phased array antenna systems for aircraft.

NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France, 25 March 2012. Air traffic control (ATC) experts at the Thales Group in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, are installing an air traffic management (ATM) system at Ashgabat Airport -- one of two international airports in Turkmenistan -- under terms of a contract awarded to Thales by the TURKMENHOWAYOLLARY State Civil Aviation Department (SCAD) in Turkmenistan.

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J., 24 March 2012. U.S. Navy shipboard air traffic control experts needed flat-panel displays for the AN/TPX-42A(V) shipboard air traffic control system aboard naval amphibious assault ships. They found their solution from Barco Inc. in Duluth, Ga.

MUNICH, 22 March 2012. Avionics Europe, the annual gathering of the avionics industry, drew more than 1,000 avionics professionals to Munich for a two-day conference program covering commercial and defence avionics technologies and challenges.

MUNICH, 21 March 2012. Executives from Airbus, Inmarsat, Nokia Siemens, EADS Innovations Works, and Esterel Technologies highlighted, during the Avionics Europe 2012 conference program in Munich, the importance of fast and reliable voice and data communications to the efficient management of global air traffic.

MUNICH, Germany, 21 March 2012. Transforming the world's air traffic control (ATC) systems to accommodate commercial and military aircraft, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is proceeding, but is proving to be difficult, says the military representative to the European air traffic management (ATM) authority EUROCONTROL.