The Shephard News Team

Yulista opens new facility in Andalusia

Yulista has opened a new facility at the Southern Alabama Regional Airport (SARA) in Andalusia, Alabama, the company announced on 10 August. The complex has ...

GA-ASI to expand presence at Grand Sky

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) will significantly expand its presence at Grand Sky, the civil UAS-focused research and development park in the US. Under the ...

UgCS enhances mission planning software

UgCS, in partnership with Airborne Response, has developed a comprehensive search capability for UAS that will allow pilots to conduct SAR operations more effectively. The ...

Sweden to buy Patriot systems

Sweden has signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance to purchase Raytheon's Patriot air and missile defense system from the US Army. Patriot consists of ...

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DN - Defence Notes

Aviall to distribute spares for GE CF34-3 engines

16th January 2009

GE Aviation has signed an exclusive distributor agreement with Aviall Services covering spare parts for GE CF34-3 aircraft engines for the remaining life of the ...
DN - Defence Notes

Thales boards China Southern A330s

16th January 2009

Thales is to supply its TopSeries audio/video-on-demand IFE system for installation in ten Airbus A330s operated by China Southern Airlines. First delivery is scheduled for ...
UV - Unmanned Vehicles

NASA debuts Global Hawk autonomous aircraft for Earth Science

15th January 2009

NASA and the Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles have unveiled the first Global Hawk aircraft system to be used for environmental science research, heralding ...
DN - Defence Notes

GECAS leases five 737-800s to Atlas Blue

15th January 2009

GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS) has announced that it has leased five new Boeing 737-800s from its existing order book to Atlas Blue, the low-fare ...
DN - Defence Notes

SR Technics wins 157 easyJet A319 checks

15th January 2009

SR Technics and easyJet have signed an agreement covering 157 maintenance checks for the carrier’s Airbus A319 fleet. The checks, which will each take two ...
DN - Defence Notes

Pinnacle's Colgan Air expands partnership with Continental, 15 more Q400s ordered

15th January 2009

Pinnacle Airlines Corporation (PNCL) has entered into an agreement with Continental Airlines to increase the number of Bombardier Q400s operated by Colgan Air, PNCL's wholly-owned ...
DN - Defence Notes

Airbus 2008 commercial results

15th January 2009

In 2008 Airbus delivered a new record number of 483 aircraft, 30 more than in 2007. This number is made up of 386 A320 family ...
DN - Defence Notes

United gives Gogo a whirl

15th January 2009

Aircell is rapidly nearing a full hand of US majors following the announcement that United Airlines is to introduce the Gogo passenger broadband service on ...
DH - Defence Helicopter

Helicopter Flight Training Services inaugurates World's first NH90 Full-Mission Simulator

15th January 2009

Helicopter Flight Training Services (HFTS), a consortium owned equally by CAE, Eurocopter, Thales and Rheinmetall Defence Electronics, today officially inaugurated the world's first NH90 full-mission ...
RH - Rotorhub

Developer of Medical Observation and Simulation System, smots, celebrates Successful Start to Air Ambulance Fundraising Campaign

15th January 2009

Scotia UK plc, developer of the Scotia Medical Observation and Simulation System, or smots, has raised over £5,000 for the East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) ...
DN - Defence Notes

Ryanair expanding at three bases

14th January 2009

Ryanair has announced that it will add new Boeing 737-800 aircraft at Alicante (up one to four) from June, Bristol (up two to four) from ...
DN - Defence Notes

Oxford Airport welcomes new flights to Jersey

14th January 2009

Oxford Airport in the UK will get its first ‘scheduled’ charter flights this summer when C.I. Travel Group launches Saturday flights to Jersey from 11 ...
DH - Defence Helicopter

US Army looking at future of aviation

14th January 2009

Army aviation resourcing is on track to meet the challenges of prolonged, 21st century combat, said two of the Army's top program and acquisition officials ...
DN - Defence Notes

SIA set to welcome millionth A380 passenger

14th January 2009

The Singapore Airlines publicity machine is revving up to celebrate the carrier’s one-millionth Airbus A380 passenger, who is expected to step aboard one of its ...
DH - Defence Helicopter

Sikorsky release podcast on H-92 European demo tour

14th January 2009

Sikorsky have produced a podcast looking back at the European and Middle Eastern tour of the H-92 Super Hawk helicopter. The aircraft demonstrated its mission ...
DH - Defence Helicopter

First Marine Corps UH-1Y Helicopter With Northrop Grumman Integrated Cockpit Deploys in 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit

14th January 2009

Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Avionics System (IAS) and the company's integration support were key parts of preparing the UH-1Y Huey helicopters for initial deployment early ...
DH - Defence Helicopter

Third VH-71 Presidential Production Helicopter Completes Initial Flight

13th January 2009

The VH-71 presidential helicopter program set another milestone with the maiden flight of the third pilot production helicopter today. This is the seventh presidential helicopter ...
DH - Defence Helicopter

Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney Successfully Complete Advanced Affordable Turbine Engine (AATE) Design Review

13th January 2009

The Advanced Turbine Engine Company, LLC (ATEC), a Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney joint venture, has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) by the ...
DN - Defence Notes

Associated Air orders CTT humidification for VIP A319

13th January 2009

Leading US VIP completions specialist Associated Air Center of Dallas has ordered CTT Systems’ Cair cabin humidification for installation in an Airbus A319 during the ...
DN - Defence Notes

TopSeries orders top the thousand, says Thales

13th January 2009

Thales Avionics says that in the past five years it has received orders from 45 airlines for more than a thousand shipsets of its TopSeries ...