ENDICOTT, N.Y., 22 May 2012. BAE Systems won a contract to design, develop, test, and produce the Actuator Control Unit (ACU) for the Boom Actuation Control System of the Boeing KC-46A tanker.

CLEVELAND, 21 May 2012. Nextant has acquired a large remanufacturing facility at Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County Airport. The new space is expected to accommodate an annual production rate of forty-eight 400XT aircraft to meet higher than projected demand for the 400XT. Nextant’s current book of orders is approaching 70 aircraft to be delivered over the next five years.

GENEVA, 21 May 2012. Jet Aviation AG Basel, , a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), won a new Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for the Aviator 200 system from Aircell, a provider of in-flight connectivity for business aviation, aboard the Falcon 2000LX.

EXETER, England, 20 May 2012. Flybe Aviation Services, an aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) company based in Exeter, England, has received approval from Bombardier Inc. in Montreal to provide authorized service to Bombardier CRJ regional passenger jet aircraft. The appointment adds to Flybe’s previous Dash 8/Q-Series aviation service facility (ASF) designation.

FORT MYERS, Fla., 20 May 2012. Crystek Corp. in Fort Myers, Fla., is introducing the CCHD-950 series ultra-low-phase-noise clock oscillator for avionics, test and measurement equipment, low-phase signal sources, synthetic instrumentation such as VXI and PXI, and high-definition TV. The CCHD-950 pushes the phase noise performance benchmark with a -168 dBc/Hz noise floor (100 MHz model).

HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, 18 May 2012. Euroatlantic Airways based in Sintra, Portugal, is choosing Fokker Services in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, to install the Apple iPad-based electronic flight bag (EFB), in Euroatlantic's fleet of Boeing passenger jets.

OLATHE, Kan., 18 May 2012. Officials at Learjet, a subsidiary of Bombardier, have selected the Garmin G5000 integrated avionics system from Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN) and a provider of satellite navigation systems in Olathe, Kan., for the Vision Flight Deck in the new Learjet 70 and Learjet 75 business jets.

SHANGHAI, 17 May 2012. UTair Aviation in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, an airline that provides domestic and international passenger air service from Russia, needed maintenance and engineering services for the airline's fleet of eight Boeing 767-200ER widebody passenger jets. They found their solution from Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services Co. Ltd., based at PuDong International Airport in Shanghai.

MELBOURNE, Fla. 17 May 2012. Greenwich AeroGroup, Inc. and its affiliates have agreed to sell, support and install the Iridium OpenPort-AeroSM broadband aviation communications system. Iridium OpenPort-Aero is an aviation broadband solution that works for passengers requiring smartphone, tablet or laptop connectivity.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 16 May 2012. GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., is introducing the GRA112 3U VPX rugged graphics board for demanding graphical applications that require a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU), such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), radar, and sonar.

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.

REDMOND, Wa., 9 May 2012. Aspen Avionics Inc. officials signed a patent licensing agreement whereby the company gains access to Microsoft Corp.’s Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT). exFAT, a modern file system from Microsoft, enables data portability and provides an interchange between desktop PCs and other electronic devices. This latest agreement for Microsoft exFAT is the first of its kind in the avionics and commercial sector.

SHANNON, Ireland, 8 May 2012. GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing unit of GE, has delivered two leased Airbus A320 aircraft to Brussels Airlines. The airline, currently modernizing its fleet, will replace older aircraft in the airline’s fleet with the leased A320 single-aisle commercial airplanes.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., 7 May 2012. GE Aviation (NYSE:GE) has expanded into a new facility in Pompano Beach, Fla., which includes a 30 percent increase in square footage and a research and development (R&D) lab for the advanced development of silicon carbide (SiC)-based power conversion products for air, land, and sea-based platforms.

WASHINGTON, 8 May 2012. The Boeing Company has completed the second parachute drop test for its Crew Space Transportation (CST) spacecraft. This latest parachute test comes as part of the company’s effort to develop commercial crew transportation capabilities to ferry U.S. astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit (LEO) and the International Space Station (ISS).

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.

BOHEMIA, N.Y., 29 April 2012. Beta Transformer Technology Corp. in Bohemia, N.Y., is introducing the BXC-A-3 low-cost three-stub box coupler that is compatible with the MIL-STD-1553 1-megabit-per-second avionics databus. The BXC-A-3 is for system development, laboratory, test, and flight line applications.

ASHBURN, Va., 26 April 2012. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., is introducing the VPX3-1257 3U OpenVPX single-board computer with the quad-core 3rd-Generation Intel Core i7-3612QE processor, which was introduced this week. The embedded computing board is for harsh-environment, air- and conduction-cooled aerospace and defense applications.

TOULOUSE, France, 25 April 2012. Jetstar Japan, one of Japan’s low-cost carriers (LCC), has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 aircraft.