WARWICK, R.I., 12 May 2013. Northstar Aviation, a fixed-base operator at Green Airport (PVD) in Warwick, R.I., has finished a new, state-of-the-art executive terminal.

SURAT, India, 11 May 2013. A mechanical engineer working on aerospace applications has written to Avionics Intelligence for advice on online training for automotive and aviation design and analysis training.

ZURICH, Switzerland, 10 May 2013. Swiss Aviation Training’s (SAT’s) new Embraer 190 full-flight simulator, purchased from CAE in Montreal, is now available for use at the Lufthansa Flight Training Center in Frankfurt.

ST. LOUIS, 8 May 2013. Boeing (NYSE:BA) has delivered a training center for the C-17 Globemaster III airlifter to the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to aid in training pilots and loadmasters onsite, faster, and at a reduced cost.

BERLIN, 5 May 2013. Fixed-base operator (FBO) specialist Signature Flight Support in Orlando, Fla., opened a second FBO location in Berlin, Germany, this week when the company began operating an FBO satellite station at Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL).

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., 29 April 2013. Quasar Aerospace Industries Inc. subsidiary A-Cent Aviation Inc. achieved certification of its 141 satellite location in Jacksonville, Fla.; A-Cent will be the only FAA Part 141 flight school located at Herlong Airport. 

HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands, 28 April 2013. Flight deck avionics experts at Fokker Services in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, will install electronic flight bag (EFB) capability on the Airbus A320 fleet of charter, aircraft lease operator Avion Express in Vilnius, Lithuania.

ORLANDO, Fla., 23 April 2013. Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim), the developer of the Virtual Battlespace (VBS) series of training games, has acquired TerraSim Inc., developer of TerraTools and several source data preparation products used to simplify simulation database development.

BRESLAU, Ontario, 23 April 2013. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) has provided a visual simulation platform that creates training scenarios across aviation, maritime, and ground domains to Breslau's Cadet Youth Development Centre, home to the 822 Tutor Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.

SAINT LAURENT, Quebec, 23 April 2013. The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation has placed an order for KA350i/B200GT FFS X and B200GT FFT full flight simulators from Mechtronix.

WATERLOO, Canada, 23 April 2013. Maplesoft has released its MapleSim 6.1 advanced system-level modeling and simulation platform, updated with improved performance, more programmatic analysis and model development tools, and expanded  connectivity options, for helping engineers meet and exceed system-level requirements.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., 17 April 2013. Air traffic control (ATC) experts at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., are expected to release a formal industry solicitation over the next few weeks to develop computer simulations of integrated, real-time, and fast-time gate-to-gate airline operations and their performance using real-world inputs from the National Airspace System.

SINGAPORE, 16 April 2013. Officials at The Boeing Company have selected Mechtronix, a Canadian-based flight simulator company, to build and install a new Boeing 737NG full flight simulator (FFS) level D for the company’s sophisticated training campus in Singapore.

ST-LAURENT, Québec, 13 April 2013. Officials at The Boeing Company have selected Mechtronix in Quebec, Canada, to build and install a new Boeing 737NG full flight simulator (FFS) level D.

ST-LAURENT, Québec, 13 April 2013. Officials at The Boeing Company have selected Mechtronix in Quebec, Canada, to build and install a new Boeing 737NG full flight simulator (FFS) level D.

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz., 22 March 2013. The aerospace embedded computing industry is stuck temporarily in the economic doldrums because of massive uncertainty over the future U.S. defense budget, federal sequestration, and a 22 percent drop in defense spending during the fourth quarter of 2012, but bad times may not last for long, says report released this week.

WILSONVILLE, Ore., 20 March 2013. Mentor Graphics Corp.’s (NASDAQ:MENT) FloTHERM XT software delivers an integrated MDA-EDA electronics cooling simulation solution designed to dramatically shorten the process from conceptual through detailed design.

ORLANDO, Fla., 13 March 2013. Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) engineers will begin work on ground-based F-15SA pilot and maintenance training systems for the Royal Saudi Air Force, based on a $253 million contract under Saudi Arabia's F-15SA modernization program.

LAS VEGAS, 8 March 2013. Avionics designers at helicopter designer Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford, Conn., needed a variety of helicopter avionics instruments for the company's H-60 and S-70i helicopters. They found their solution from L-3 Aviation Products in Phoenix.