MONTREAL, 30 March 2012. Aveos Fleet Performance Inc.--a maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) provider of airframe, component, engine, and maintenance solutions with facilities in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver—has filed for bankruptcy protection and closed. Company officials cite finances and relations with client Air Canada as reasons for the closure.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 30 March 2012. Vision Systems International (VSI), maker of advanced helmet-mounted displays (HMDs) for tactical aircraft, won a $19.8 million contract to deliver and provide engineering support for Night Vision Cueing Display (NVCD) systems. VSI personnel are expected to deliver 100 NVCD systems by Nov. 2013 under this NVCD low-rate initial production lot two (LRIP-2) contract. VSI engineers are also modifying the HMD test set to accommodate additional NVCD capability.

SHANGHAI, 29 March 2012. During the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE) 2012, Eurocopter displayed two of its most popular helicopter models for business aviation: an AS350 B3 Ecureuil on static display and a mock-up of its light twin-engine EC135.

SHANGHAI, 29 March 2012. Boeing (NYSE: BA) Business Jets’ (BBJ’s) latest jet entered service at the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE) in Shanghai.

SHANGHAI, 29 March 2012. The Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE), jointly sponsored by the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA), is going on now at the new Shanghai Hawker Pacific Business Aviation Service Centre, China.

TINKER AFB, Okla., 29 March 2012. U.S. Air Force aircraft and avionics experts are looking to the Honeywell International Inc. Aerospace sector in Tempe, Ariz., to provide maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) for 11 types of Air Force combat, utility, cargo, surveillance, and refueling aircraft under terms of a $73.2 million contract announced Tuesday.

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.

MIAMI, Fla., 29 March, 2012. Miami Pan Am International Flight Academy continued its expansion plans by announcing the acquisition of three additional full flight simulators to be placed immediately in service at their Miami and Memphis training facilities.

Israel, 28 March, 2012. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) recently introduced the UMT UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Mission Trainer.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 28 March 2012. Aircraft systems experts at the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, are reaching out to industry to find companies able to perform major systems upgrades and technology insertion to enhance the capabilities and design for continual improvements of three versions of the U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130J four-engine turboprop transport aircraft.

SANTIAGO, Chile, 28 March 2012. The Boeing Co. [NYSE: BA] and Elbit Systems are collaborating on a joint distributed simulation project that will link a Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet simulator in St. Louis with an AEL Avionics Laboratory simulator in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

ARLINGTON, Texas, 27 March 2012. L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) won a Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division contract to build an F/A-18D Tactical Operational Flight Trainer (TOFT) for the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF).

RESTON, Va., 27 March 2012. NCI Inc. (NASDAQ:NCIT), a provider of information technology (IT), engineering, logistics, and professional services and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies, won a prime contract under the U.S. Air Force Design Engineering and Support Program (DESP III). This seven-year contract has a ceiling value of $1.9 billion and may be used by Air Force and other U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) agencies.

LONDON, 27 March 2012. The aviation security market has evolved in response to new threats. As demand for air travel continues to grow annually, governments and aviation enforcement authorities face the need to adopt strict safety measures to counter terrorist threats before they occur whilst limiting the inconvenience faced by the passenger. Existing threats, rising passenger numbers, and airport expansion projects mean that the global aviation security market will reach $22.3 billion in 2012, according to Visiongain analysts.

LONDON, 27 March 2012. India's strong and dynamic growth in military spending will continue through the next decade, as the Indian government seeks to fulfill ambitious defense modernization plans. India will spend $38.51 billion on defense in 2012, according to Visiongain’s latest report, “The Indian Defence Market 2012-2022.”

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.

SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, 26 March 2012. Avionics experts at the Embraer S.A Defense and Security segment in São José dos Campos, Brazil, are choosing the GNAT Pro Ada software development environment from AdaCore in New York to develop real-time and embedded computing software in a major upgrade the Embraer AMX jet fighter-bomber.

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., 26 March 2012. Behlman Electronics Inc., a provider of power products for military, industrial, and commercial shipboard, airborne, and mobile applications, has won an additional order for its Model 00389 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) power supplies for U.S. Navy’s airborne anti-submarine and anti-ship surveillance and targeting systems.

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.