During the opening session of the 66th annual Aircraft Electronics Association International Convention & Trade Show at the Gaylord Palms Convention Center in Orlando, FL, the Federal Aviation Administration presents the Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award to Ric Peri, AEA vice president of government and industry affairs.

Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics, a technology company and leader in the design and manufacture of aerospace products, introduces an all-digital version of the company’s popular 2-inch standby package. The new digital standby family features the company’s Flex® Attitude Indicator, Flex® Counter Drum Encoding Altimeter, and Flex® Airspeed Indicator. All three instruments are supported by an Approved Model List (AML) supplemental type certificate (STC) covering more than 180 aircraft models.

SmartSky Networks, an air-to-ground (ATG) inflight connectivity provider, announces that it has at least seven more models of aircraft with expected supplemental type certificate (STC) completion this quarter. With a dozen STCs already granted and many more on the way, the SmartSky system is rapidly becoming available for thousands of the most popular business-aviation jet models currently in service.

Textron Aviation is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Zurich and Düsseldorf Service Centers joining its global customer support network. Employees marked the milestone anniversary with celebrations at each location earlier this month. Located at Zurich Airport (ZRH) in Switzerland and Düsseldorf International Airport (DUH) in Germany, the service centers are part of the company’s extensive global service network designed to support customers wherever they are in the world.

STACK.aero, a developer of business operations systems for aviation, announces the integration of its Business Operations System (BOS) with Avinode, a platform that processes approximately 18 million trip requests per year. This is the first plug-and-play customer relationship management (CRM) system to be integrated with the Avinode platform and is tailor-made for charter brokers.

Volatus Infrastructure, LLC co-founder, Grant Fisk, joins the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Committee. The AAM Committee is NATA’s newest committee and aims to provide stakeholder input on the path forward for FBOs and airports planning to service the next generation of aircraft and address sustainable infrastructure, such as vertiports, where innovative solutions in transporting people and goods will impact the overall aviation ecosystem.

Auxitrol Weston enters into an exclusive agreement with HABCO MRO (CRS#: 5HBR906C) as its authorized aftermarket repair center. The agreement covers repair, replacement and warranty for the entire suite of Auxitrol Weston products in the Americas aftermarket region.

Cirrus Aircraft, in collaboration with Garmin International, Inc., announces that its Vision Jet Safe Return™ Emergency Autoland system has received type certificate approval from the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) of Brazil. Safe Return Emergency Autoland is a revolutionary system, enabled by Garmin’s Collier award-winning autoland technology, that allows passengers to autonomously land the Vision Jet with the touch of a single button in the event of an emergency.

C&L Aerospace, a C&L Aviation Group company, expands its partnership with Parker Meggitt, Securaplane Technologies, by signing a new long-term distribution agreement. Under the agreement, C&L Aerospace is authorized to distribute Parker Meggitt’s full line of STC-approved mainship batteries, emergency batteries, and BizJet camera product lines.

Amglo is offering interior LED aircraft lighting that provides an average life of 50,000 hours, reducing airline maintenance costs significantly due to fewer lamp change-outs.