West Star Aviation is recognized as a gold leader by the Colorado governor's Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) in Denver, CO, for a fifth consecutive year. The Environmental Leadership Program is a state-wide recognition and reward program offering benefits and incentives to members that go above and beyond compliance with state and federal regulations and are committed to continual environmental improvements.

Aspen Avionics announces it has obtained European Union Safety Agency (EASA) approval for the Evolution E5 EFI. The budget-friendly E5 EFI will be sold through Aspen Avionics authorized dealers and directly to aircraft owners through aviation retailers.

Duncan Aviation announces that manager of Audit Programs, Mike Brown, has accepted a certificate on the company’s behalf from WYVERN Ltd. The certification recognizes Duncan Aviation for having a safety management system (SMS) in place at its repair station in Lincoln, NE.

Western Aircraft, a Greenwich AeroGroup company, announces it has promoted Beau Hawkins to the position of avionics sales manager.

Duncan Aviation announces it has received approval from Honeywell Aerospace to perform automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) upgrades on the Honeywell RMU-855 and the RCZ-850 and RCZ-833 series transponders on aircraft that are on-site at a Duncan Aviation facility.

C&L Aerospace, a C&L Aviation Group company, purchases an ATR 42-320 which is currently being disassembled to make parts available for sale or exchange around the globe. This is the seventh recent ATR purchase for teardown made by C&L. 

Avotek has released an updated title to its avionics series, Avionics: Beyond the AET second edition. The avionics series consists of four titles, with Beyond the AET coming in as the second book.

INGENIO Aerospace products add style, innovation and functionality to cabin and cockpit of Falcon aircraft.

The White House announced that Congressional Gold Medals will be awarded to the NASA mathematicians represented in the Hollywood film Hidden Figures, based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Four African-American women who were employed as human computers were key players at NASA during the “space race” and early space flight.

Solenta Aviation, the South African aviation solution provider and ACMI specialist, has gone live with Rusada’s maintenance management software ENVISION.

Solenta Aviation, founded in 2000, provides customized passenger and cargo solutions, aircraft charter and ACMI services to multiple industries. The airline operates and manages a fleet of almost 40 aircraft, including Beechcraft 1900’s, ATR’s and Embraer ERJ’s, located at sites across the continent.