Under the companies’ agreement, the flight deck will be tailored to support the Overture’s mission requirements, including “exceptional situational awareness and enhanced safety,” Boom said. The Honeywell avionics interface gives pilots continuity from simulator-based flight training through to actual flights.

• READ MORE: Boom Supersonic Announces Milestones Including Taxi-Testing Its XB-1 Demonstrator Aircraft

The Anthem is Honeywell’s first cloud-connected flight deck and is designed to be adaptable to many aircraft types from general aviation to commercial aircraft. Honeywell first flight-tested the Anthem in a Pilatus PC-12 in May, marking an important step on the system’s path toward FAA certification.

“Honeywell has an extensive history of aerospace innovation and shares our vision of a faster future through sustainable supersonic flight,” said Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic. “We’re proud to work with Honeywell to realize one of the most advanced flight decks in the sky, with state-of-the-art technologies that reduce pilot workload and increase safety.”

• READ MORE: Honeywell Acquires HUD Assets from Saab for Use in Anthem, Primus Flight Decks

Honeywell traces its history in aviation to the earliest autopilot systems. The company has been a pioneer in developing numerous cockpit systems, including synthetic vision and heads-up displays. Boom said Honeywell is among several tier one suppliers it has tapped to support its Overture program.

“For decades, Honeywell has supported aircraft programs that build the future for aviation,” said Vipul Gupta, president of electronic solutions at Honeywell Aerospace. “We are looking forward to partnering with Boom to usher in a new generation of supersonic travel.”

The post Boom Supersonic Chooses Honeywell Anthem Flight Deck for Overture Airliner appeared first on FLYING Magazine.

During the fourth quarter, sales increased 31 percent compared to the same period a year earlier, which is the highest quarterly increase in the report’s history, the AEA said. Fourth-quarter sales rose 7.2 percent compared with the third quarter, marking the tenth consecutive quarter of increasing sales, AEA officials added.

• READ MORE: Report: Avionics Sales Increased 6.5 Percent in 2021

“We have seen yearly sales rebound the last two years despite supply chain constraints and a tight labor market,” said AEA president and CEO Mike Adamson. “While it’s encouraging to see a record-breaking percentage increase in year-over-year avionics sales, the industry is still rebounding from the economic impact of the pandemic. The $2.8 billion in sales for 2022 falls short of the 2019 year-end sales when industry notched a record $3 billion just prior to the international health crisis, but we are trending in the right direction with positive gains over the past 10 quarters,” Adamson said.

The retrofit market for avionics installed after an aircraft’s original production accounted for 48.2 percent of total sales in 2022, while avionics installed by aircraft manufacturers during original production totaled 51 percent of sales, the AEA said.

Companies that separated their sales figures between the U.S. and Canada and other international markets said 74.9 percent of their sales during 2022 took place in the U.S and Canada and 25.1 percent took place in other markets.

The AEA said it began releasing its Avionics Market Report on March 26, 2013, during the 56th annual AEA International Convention & Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before that, the industry group said, there was no “effort to capture the true dollar size of the business and general aviation avionics market.”

The post Global Avionics Sales Posted Strong Growth in 2022, Aircraft Electronics Association Says appeared first on FLYING Magazine.

This upgrade comes as part of a $265.3 million contract the DOD awarded TAS in July under the ARTEMIS program. ARTEMIS stands for Avionics Reconfiguration and Tactical Enhancement/Modernization for Inventory Standardization. It tasks TAS with upgrading the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps fleet of F-5 Tiger II Adversary aircraft, including 16 F-5E and six F-5F Tiger II aircraft, among others.

In a statement, Carl Wolf, Garmin’s vice president of aviation sales and marketing, said having the G3000 selected for the ARTEMIS contract was an “honor,” especially since the OEM also announced recently it had deployed its integrated flight deck technologies now on more than 25,000 aircraft.

Garmin and TAS first partnered in 2018 when the defense contractor chose the Garmin G3000 for its F-5 adversary aircraft training fleet. The supersonic, tactical fighter, and attack aircraft are used for air-to-air combat training, close air support, and tactical development support.

Meanwhile, Tactical Air CEO Rolland “RC” Thompson said, “the Garmin integrated flight deck gave us an outstanding commercial-off-the-shelf solution to the Navy, and Marine Corps’ recently purchased fleet of F-5 aircraft to make them an even more capable adversary fighter for our aviators to train against.”

Here’s What F-5 Pilots Can Expect

When the G3000s are integrated into the F-5 Tigers, they will be configured with one large area display and two touchscreen controllers. Pilots will then use the aircraft in an aggressor training role. Implementing the new avionics into the fighter jets should not be difficult because of Garmin’s commercial-off-the-shelf open architecture for the G3000. 

Like many of Garmin’s other commercial avionic products, the G3000 integrates with a wide range of mission equipment, including military sensors, helmet-mounted displays, and advanced electrically scanned radar systems.

Garmin said that the G3000s would integrate and interface easily to the F-5’s existing mission computer, enabling advanced mapping, tactical radio capabilities, and radar display. Tactical Air integrated the L3Harris ForceX mission computer and a wide range of military sensors, communications equipment, and weapons systems into the G3000 touchscreen HMI.

The G3000s would offer pilots great situational awareness through features like its Terrain Awareness and Warning System (TAWS), Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B IN) traffic. For nighttime, the G3000 is compatible with night vision goggles and even has synthetic vision technology for low-visibility operations.

The post Garmin G3000 Selected To Modernize U.S. Navy and Marine Corps F-5 Aircraft appeared first on FLYING Magazine.

Forward-fit sales during the second quarter led the way over retrofits, with $3.73 billion and $3.35 billion, respectively. The report said forward-fit sales during this year’s first six months were 35.6 percent more than during the same time in 2021. This makes sense as aircraft manufacturers, such as Bombardier, reported last week that they expected to sell more than 120 executive jets this year (as they did in 2021) and had a $14.7 billion order backlog.

Moreover, AEA said the more than $373 million in forward-fit sales marks the second-largest sales total in that category in the report’s history, just shy of the more than $376 million reported in the second quarter of 2019.

By region, the association said the U.S. and Canada generated 73.6 percent of the six-month sales activity this year.

In a statement, AEA president and CEO Mike Adamson said, “It is encouraging to see sales continue to climb.” Still, Adamson said members reported that price inflation may have bumped the numbers up. “Companies participating in the market report indicated they had increased their prices nearly 6 percent, which is substantial,” Adamson pointed out. However, that was still below the 8.5 percent rise in the U.S. annual consumer price index reported in July, which could mean some sales were actually at a loss as businesses prepared for a potential recession.

In the end, Adamson commended suppliers for withstanding increasing costs and supply chain disruptions.

“The effort to manage and maintain the flow of products by our avionics OEMs dealing with supply constraints and the ever-increasing cost to produce and recertify their products is extraordinary.”

The post Q2 Avionics Sales Increase Nearly 12 Percent appeared first on FLYING Magazine.

In a statement released Monday, the aerospace consortium made clear its plans to initiate the IPO process, as it seeks growth opportunities across its verticals.

The number and value of shares to be offered has yet to be determined, according to the company. The statement will become effective after the SEC has had a chance to review and approve the filing.

What It Means

With the merger of its six partner aerospace firms complete as of July, the conglomerate presses forward in the development of advanced avionics, electric air mobility, commercial drones, and training. AIRO Group CEO Joe Burns characterizes the group’s mission to leverage its expertise in certification, in particular, with brands such as Aspen and Jaunt Air Mobility.

“Operators are looking for a pedigree of certification and safety as well as robust, dynamic capabilities, efficiencies and quiet operations,” said Burns in an earlier statement released at EAA AirVenture. “AIRO is proud to have received numerous aircraft orders as well as multiple U.S. DOD contracts aimed at optimizing eVTOL speed and minimizing acoustic signatures for quiet operations. 

“Certification is being driven out of AIRO’s Electric Air Mobility, Canadian office in Montreal and will be brought through the FAA’s process shortly thereafter.” 

More Aspen Support

AIRO plans to key off of the success of Aspen Avionics in its certification of avionics, such as its Evolution series of electronic flight information systems, and take that into the broader aerospace market. A specific focus will be on advancing autonomous flight, and the safe and efficient integration of avionics into electric and other urban air mobility platforms.

AIRO will continue to serve the general and business aviation markets with a wide range of glass to install as part of aftermarket upgrades as well as other applications. 

The post AIRO Group Files Ahead of IPO appeared first on FLYING Magazine.