GENEVA, 22 May 2013. Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. engineers sought an avionics suite for the company’s new Pilatus PC-24 Twin Jet. They found theirsolution at Honeywell (NYSE:HON), selecting a combination of components from Primus Epic and Primus Apex to provide the core functionality, safety, and display content for the Pilatus Advanced Cockpit Environment (ACE), designed specifically for the PC-24.

MESA, Ariz., 20 May 2013. EyeTech Digital Systems provided eye tracking hardware, software, and engineering integration support for Thales In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity’s touch-free entertainment system, which won the 2013 Crystal Cabin Award for Passenger Comfort Systems.

WEBB CITY, Mo., 12 May 2013. Alpha Air Center, a fixed-base operator (FBO) at Joplin Regional Airport (KJL) in Webb City, Mo., is scheduled to complete a 5,000-square-foot executive terminal this summer, airport officials say.

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.

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).

LINCOLN, Mass., 2 May 2013. Avidyne Corp. in Lincoln, Mass., has received validation from the national aviation agency of Brazil for the Avidyne DFC90 digital autopilot in Cessna 182-single-engine general-aviation aircraft when interfaced with the Evolution Pro primary flight display (PFD) from Aspen Avionics in Albuquerque, N.M.

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.

DOTHAN, Ala., 28 April 2013. Aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) specialist Commercial Jet in Miami has opened a 400,000-square-foot MRO facility at Dothan Regional Airport (DHN) in Dothan, Ala., which more than triples the company's capacity to provide freighter conversion and MRO services.

WILSONVILLE, Ore., 22 April 2013. Forward-looking infrared (FLIR) imaging technology from FLIR Systems in Wilsonville, Ore., employed on a police helicopter provided law-enforcement personnel with their first glimpse of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he lay in a tarpaulin-covered boat in a residential neighborhood in Watertown, Mass., last week.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 21 April 2013. Fixed-base operator (FBO) specialist Signature Flight Support Corp. in Orlando, Fla., is moving ahead with a plan to develop and operate a 29-acre, $82 million FBO facility at San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif., after the San Jose City Council voted 10-1 last week for final approval.

ANAHEIM, Calif., 19 April 2013. Advanced Defense Technologies Inc. announced the availability of its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology for precision agriculture applications.

SHANGHAI, 16 April 2013. Nextant Aerospace has launched the air ambulance conversion module for its Nextant 400XT remanufactured business jet.

SAN JOSE, Calif., 14 April 2013. This could be the week of decision for competing proposals for major competing proposals for fixed-base operator (FBO) development at Norman Mineta San Jose International Airport in the heart of California's Silicon Valley technology corridor.

HONG KONG, 14 April 2013. Jet Aviation Hong Kong has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Washington to provide line and base maintenance to Gulfstream G650 business jets.

FORT WORTH, Texas, 13 April 2013. Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE:TXT), unveiled the Bell V-280 Valor at the 2013 Army Aviation Association of America’s (AAAA) Annual Professional Forum and Exposition. Bell Helicopter’s third-generation tiltrotor marks the company’s offering for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role/Future Vertical Lift (FVL) Technology Demonstrator (JMR/TD).

ABU DHABI, U.A.E., 13 April 2013. Avionics International Advisory Board Members—all experienced, knowledgeable, and high-level aviation executives and avionics experts—have issued a call for papers for the 2014 conference program, to be held 18-19 March 2014 in Abu Dhabi.

CYPRESS, Texas, 7 April 2013. The six fixed-base operator (FBO) locations in the U.S. have joined the Paragon Aviation Group, growing the Paragon network of independent FBOs in 25.

HYDERABAD, India, 4 April 2013. Demand for composite materials in the global aerospace industry achieved double-digit growth in 2012, driven by the continued ramp up of new and existing large commercial aircraft production and increased build rates across the military, civil helicopters, and certain business jet aircraft, according to custom & syndicated research firm Composite Insights.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., 19 March 2013. The first production Eclipse 550 aircraft powered up its two Pratt & Whitney PW610F engines and the aircraft systems came on line at Eclipse Aerospace’s facility in Albuquerque, N.M.