CMC Electronics has agreed to acquire US military cockpit systems supplier Flight Visions. The deal will expand the Canadian company's avionics upgrade capabilities into fighter and trainer aircraft. Terms have not been disclosed.
Privately held Flight Visions, based in Sugar Grove, Illinois, is a specialist in low-cost head-up displays and mission computers. The company's equipment is installed on several advanced trainer/light attack aircraft, including the Aero Vodochody L-159 and Pilatus PC-21, and has been retrofitted to the Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir and Grumman F-14B Tomcat fighters.
Quebec-based CMC says the acquisition will expand its core flightdeck modernisation business beyond commercial and military transport aircraft and helicopters. Although Flight Visions is developing a head-up display (HUD) for business aircraft in an alliance with Universal Avionics Systems, while CMC is developing enhanced vision system (EVS) sensors allowing low-visibility operations, the company says it has no plans to offer an integrated HUD/EVS.
CMC, formerly Canadian Marconi, was sold last year by BAE Systems to Canadian private investor group Oncap.
Source: Flight International
