The FAA and EASA approve use of Dassault’s advanced dual head-up (HUD) display known as FalconEye on the company’s Falcon 8X very long range trijet, adding to the aircraft’s low-visibility operations capability. The dual HUD configuration will ultimately permit an EFVS-to-land capability in near zero-zero conditions, pending new EASA regulations.

Clay Lacy Aviation completes its tenth installation of the Garmin G1000® NXi avionics suite at its FAA Part 145 Repair Station at Van Nuys Airport (KVNY), where Clay Lacy is an authorized Garmin dealer and has operated an Embraer Authorized Service Center since 2009. The company provides comprehensive maintenance, repair and overhaul services, including full-suite avionics installations, system upgrades and modifications.

AAR CORP. (NYSE: AIR), a provider of aviation services to commercial and government operators, MROs and OEMs, announces the launch of fellowship programs with Vincennes University and Aviation Institute of Maintenance (AIM) in Indianapolis. A leader in developing the aviation maintenance technician pipeline, AAR continues expanding efforts to attract talent to the field.

Elliott Aviation, a provider in business-aviation services, is again expanding its nationwide footprint. The company announces the addition of its fifth MRO location with the recent acquisition of Four Points Aero on Love Field in Dallas, TX. The acquisition increases not only capacity but Elliott’s airframe service capabilities to further include the Dassault Falcon models 900B, 900EX and 2000EX.

Robotic Skies and Continuum Applied Technology, Inc., providers of CORRIDOR Aviation Service Software, announce they have entered into a global strategic partnership, combining CORRIDOR’s aviation-maintenance platform with Robotic Skies’ global maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) network for next-generation unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft. The partnership will provide Robotic Skies with a customized, world-class software platform to manage its unique MRO operations while extending CORRIDOR to provide enhanced support of next-generation aircraft-maintenance activities that will help enable the emerging unmanned aerospace market.

EAA CEO and chairman, Jack Pelton, shares the statics of a record-breaking year for the 2022 EAA AirVenture held in Oshkosh, WI. “We introduced a tagline of ‘Unlike Anything Else’ for this year’s AirVenture event, and 2022’s fly-in proved to truly be unlike anything else. We had seven days of nearly perfect weather, along with this year’s programs and activities, which brought out people and airplanes in numbers that we haven’t seen before."

Duncan Aviation announces its new 5G Trendsetter promotional program that gives incentives to the first 35 owner/operators who sign up to install the new Gogo X3 5G line replacement unit. Adding the Gogo X3 5G LRU to the AVANCE L5 inflight Wi-Fi system lets passengers access the Gogo 5G network once it launches later this year.

Embraer and Collins Aerospace collaborate on the development and testing of an innovative carbon nanotube electrothermal heating technology (CNT) for ice-protection systems, seeking to create more efficient and sustainable aircraft. The project recently achieved a major milestone by initiating a flight-test campaign at Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto unit in Brazil.

Airbus UpNext, a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus, reveals a flight-test program to study the contrails produced by a hydrogen combustion engine as part the company’s ZEROe roadmap. The project, named “Blue Condor,” will launch two modified Arcus gliders, one equipped with a hydrogen combustion engine and one equipped with a conventional kerosene-powered combustion engine, in order to compare contrails emitted at high altitudes.

West Star Aviation announces the company has completed the first installation of both the Collins Pro Line Fusion system and Collins Venue CMS system in a Challenger 604 aircraft at its Grand Junction, CO (GJT), facility.