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LiveTV and Iridium Communications have entered into an agreement to develop an aviation antenna based on the Iridium OpenPort high-speed communications service, which launched in the maritime market in 2008. LiveTV is displaying a prototype of the antenna, developed for a LiveTV Iridium OpenPort-based system enabling cockpit-to-cabin connectivity services this week at the Aircraft Interiors […]

AD Aerospace has signed a deal with a major European airline as the launch customer for CabinVu Witness, a digitally recorded video camera security system which covers not only the flight deck door, but also the entire passenger cabin. The deal covers an entire fleet of more than 40 aircraft of several types.

Ship it AOG, a worldwide distributor of spare parts for the business aviation market, has added a new 7,000-sq. ft. warehouse adjacent to its existing facility in Addison, Texas, bringing the total warehouse space to 14,000 sq. ft.

The union leadership of AirTran Airways pilots announced that its members have overwhelmingly approved a measure granting them the authority to call a strike if contract talks fail. 97.5% of pilots voted in favor of the strike ballot. More than 96% of eligible pilots participated in the polling. AirTran and its pilots have been in

Lufthansa Technik has announced that it is now offering

Boeing and two ANA (All Nippon Airways) pilots flew the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for the first time on May 12th. The airplane they flew is the first of six flight-test airplanes and the two-hour-and-40-minute flight took place over Washington state. The flight was conducted under a special airworthiness certificate granted by the U.S. Federal Aviation

Aviation training center Baltic Aviation Academy (Lithuania) expanded its capability list by adding Embraer 145 type rating courses and became the first approved type rating training organization (TRTO) in the Baltic region to start training program for this type of aircraft. In May 2010 the Lithuanian Civil Aviation Administration has issued to the Baltic Aviation

Brazilian carrier TAM Airlines joined the Star Alliance network on May 13th. TAM Airlines offers more than 40 destinations in Brazil and 10 airports across South America. Over the past years, the airline has expanded its intercontinental network to cover a variety of destinations in the USA and Europe, many of these being Star Alliance

EMRISE CORPORATION, a multi-national manufacturer of defense and aerospace electronic devices and communications equipment, has received multi-year production orders valued at $1.6 million for power supplies to be used in In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) systems. The products, which were ordered by two longstanding EMRISE customers, will be used for retrofitting existing aircraft with new IFE systems.

SkyWorks Holdings announced the formation of an advisory board to advise its management regarding strategic initiatives, product development and expansion into new related lines of business. Benoit Debains and Paul Marini have joined this new advisory board.