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EMRISE CORPORATION, a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, has received an US$8.4m production order for electronic device subsystems for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFE&C) systems to be installed in commercial aircraft. The production order, which is for an existing, established product, is expected to begin shipping in the fourth […]

At La Guardia Airport, New York, a US FAA inspector was arrested after a firearm was alleged to have been found in one of his bags at a TSA checkpoint, as was revealed by ABC news on Saturday. It would appear the Atlanta-based inspector used a Security Identification Display Area badge allowing him to bypass

It was on December the 9th 2014, that it was first announced AAC Corp, headquartered in Wood Dale, Illinois were looking to sell Telair, a cargo-loading systems manufacturer it bought back in 2011 for US$280m together with Nordisk Aviation Products A S (Nordisk) from Teleflex Incorporated. This week AAC have announced that they want all

H.I.G. Capital, a leading global investment firm, announced that its affiliate has completed the acquisition of an equity interest in Aviapartner, thereby becoming the majority shareholder alongside the Group’s Chairman and management. Aviapartner is a leading European provider of airport ground handling services with 60 years of experience. Aviapartner provides ground handling services for passengers

Continuing with its aviation technology leadership in Africa, Ethiopian has acquired the first ever B787 Dreamliner full flight simulator in Africa. The installation and build-up of the full flight Simulator is in progress at Ethiopian’s main Hub in Addis Ababa and the first pilot training in the B787 flight simulator will start in March, 2015.

In 2013, Chengdu Shuangliu, Chengdu’s only airport, handled 34.5 million passengers, making it the 5th busiest airport in China, and the busiest in Western China. This number of passenger virtually doubles the number handled in 2005 and takes the airport critically close to its 40 million passengers per annum capacity. It was also the 5th

Boeing and Embraer opened a joint sustainable aviation biofuel research center in a collaborative effort to further establish the aviation biofuel industry in Brazil. At the Boeing-Embraer Joint Research Center in the São José dos Campos Technology Park, the companies will coordinate and co-fund research with Brazilian universities and other institutions. The research will focus

Gogo (GOGO), a leading global aero communications service provider, has received regulatory approval from the FCC to operate its next generation in-flight connectivity technology – 2Ku. The FCC approval clears a major hurdle in the path to launching the new service. The approval is a blanket approval from the FCC for Gogo to operate its

As soon as it was discovered there were discrepancies over the rights for Indonesia AirAsia to fly between Surabaya and Singapore, it comes as no surprise that many Asian airlines are having their permits to fly routes heavily scrutinized. At the time, Indonesia AirAsia had permits to fly the route in question on four days