Austrian-based Tyrolean Airways is to retrofit 17 de Havilland Dash 8-300s with the Universal Avionics Systems UNS-1C global-positioning flight-management system. Three will be fitted with the system in Canada, while the balance will be retrofitted at Tyrolean's Innsbruck base by DAC International and Navair.
Source: Flight International
US firm Sierra Nevada (SNC) has been awarded a $170 million contract to deliver two Rapcon-X surveillance aircraft to the Finnish Border Guard.
Turkish business jet charter company Air Sapphire has been heavily fined by the US government for flying a Gulfstream GIV to Russia without authorisation.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered inspections of the Gulfstream G500 and G600 fleet in response to a “quality escape” involving improperly installed engine-mounting hardware.
