Helicopter Association Interplanetary (HAI) acknowledges the first successful flight of the Mars Helicopter, the first powered, controlled flight of any aircraft on another planet. 

Stevens Aerospace and Defense Systems, LLC (Stevens) announces that Dwayne Chandler has joined the team as director of Avionics Sales. Chandler brings more than thirty years of hands-on avionics experience, including avionics technician at Timco, avionics install crew chief and sales manager at Landmark Aviation, and most recently serving as avionics sales manager at Constant Aviation.

Rick Garcia, president and CEO of Gulf Coast Avionics, announces that the company has gone live with its updated website: www.GCA.aero.

Constant Aviation, one of the country’s largest maintenance, repair and overhaul businesses (MROs), announces that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has accepted its fully functional SMS as being in “Active Conformance” with the FAA’s Part 5 Voluntary Safety Management System (SMS) Program, the final step in the SMS process. The certification ranks Constant Aviation among the leaders nationally in business-aviation maintenance safety and risk mitigation.

Duncan Aviation announces its satellite facility in St. Paul, MN, recently installed the Garmin G5000 integrated flight deck in two of a customer’s Citation Excel aircraft. After removing the entire cockpit, the crew in St. Paul installed the G5000, which includes bright, high-resolution color displays, touchscreen interfaces with audible feedback, automatic flight guidance and control systems, GPS, synthetic vision system (SVS), and real-time weather, chart, traffic, and terrain information on the large moving maps that provide pilots with a great deal of situational awareness.

“What Noras loves just about more than anything,” police officer Josh Jackson says of his partner, “is chewing on Clemco blast hose. I could throw down a T-bone steak and a section of blast hose — and Noras would take the hose every time.”

TRAXXALL, a provider of maintenance tracking services for business aircraft, announces it has been recognized by the Financial Times (FT), a leading global business publication, as one of “Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies.”

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) successfully demonstrates multiple alternate navigation technologies for military aircraft. These new products are intended to help ensure seamless navigation, even when GPS signals are blocked, interrupted or unavailable.

Representatives of Hartzell Engine Technologies, LLC (HET) announce that the company recently shipped the 2,000th new-generation Sky-Tec starter adapter for Continental Aerospace piston aircraft engines.

Jet Aviation announces it has received approval from the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) to use infrared thermography for non-destructive testing (NDT) in Basel. This is the company’s sixth NDT technique approved in Basel. The Basel NDT Shop was established in 1991 and further supports liquid penetrant, X-Ray, magnetic particle, eddy current and ultrasonic testing.