Companies Propose to Work Together to Develop, Install, Test, and Certify Display Systems and Upgrade Kits for Various Aircraft LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, March 1, 2016 – Astronautics Corporation of America and Erickson Incorporated held a product demonstration flight of Astronautics’ new RoadRunner Electronic Flight Instrument (EFI). Subsequent to the flight, the companies signed a memorandum of [...]

Astronautics’ Multifunction Display System is a Key Part of SENER-INAER’s Upgraded Avionics for the Agusta Bell 212 Helicopter LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, March 1, 2016 – Astronautics Corporation of America’s Multifunction Display System (MFDS) completed its first operational flight with the Spanish Navy on an upgraded AB-212 helicopter on December 21, 2015. The AB-212 helicopter’s avionics have [...]

LEAT To Order 30 New RoadRunner™ Electronic Flight Instruments LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, March 1, 2016 – Astronautics Corporation of America announces a partnership with Globavia’s LEAT SpA to supply its new RoadRunner Electronic Flight Instruments (EFIs) to upgrade LEAT customers’ legacy helicopter cockpits. The announcement was made during a press conference at the 2016 HAI Heli-Expo. [...]

New EFBs Provide Reduced Operating Costs and Are a Form-Fit-Function Replacement for Existing 777 EFBs   MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, January 4, 2016 – Astronautics Corporation of America announced that Singapore Airlines (SIA) will upgrade its fleet of Boeing 777 airplanes with Astronautics’ Block Point 4 (BP4) Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). “The newer EFB will enable the [...]

3ATI EID Provides a Reliable, Flexible and Cost-Effective Form-Fit-Function Solution   MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, October 6, 2015 – Astronautics Corporation of America announced that its AFI 3300 three-inch Electronic Instrument Display (EID) has received full aircraft level certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The instrument was jointly developed with Beechcraft Defense Company, LLC, a Textron [...]

HELO FOCUSED SYNTHETIC SYSTEM VISION (SVS) TO BE DISPLAYED AT ORLANDO HAI SHOW ORLANDO, FLORIDA, March 2, 2015 – Astronautics Corporation of America is developing a new avionics architecture it calls Flexible, Adaptable, Scalable, Cockpit technology, or FAST, for future OEM forward fit and retrofits for fielded helicopters. The new architecture will feature large format [...]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 18, 2015 – Astronautics Corporation of America has received Technical Standard Order Authorization (TSOA) approval for an Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS) for India’s multi‐role SARAS aircraft program. The system consists of four 6”X 8” full color, state‐of‐the‐art liquid crystal EFIS displays providing the flight crew with Primary Flight Display, Navigation Display, [...]

Haier, Astronautics, and BASF present the first prototype of a magnetocaloric wine cooler at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas/Nevada Partners demonstrate the functional principle of innovative technology for energy efficient cooling Ludwigshafen, Germany and Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5, 2015. Haier, a leading global manufacturer of household appliances, Astronautics Corporation of America, [...]