FAA Commissions STARS at the New Boston Consolidated TRACON | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-11.04.24

Airborne-NextGen-11.05.24

Airborne-Unlimited-11.06.24

Airborne-FlightTraining-11.07.24

Airborne-Unlimited-11.08.24

Sat, May 15, 2004

FAA Commissions STARS at the New Boston Consolidated TRACON

Raytheon-designed system is state of the art in ATC automation

The Federal Aviation Administration has commissioned the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) for Logan International Airport in Boston and Manchester Airport in New Hampshire.

The commissioning ceremony was held in conjunction with the dedication of the FAA's new Boston Consolidated Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), a 63,000-square feet facility located in Merrimack, N.H. Two other sites in New England, Hartford-Bradley and Providence, have commissioned STARS into operation.

The new Boston Consolidated TRACON is the principal gateway for New England airspace. The TRACON facility has 19 controller and nine coordination positions that use STARS. The combined airspace for this facility extends from the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, south to the Rhode Island border, east to Cape Cod, and west to central Massachusetts. The consolidation of the Boston and Manchester TRACONs enhances coordination procedures and improves the effective use of airspace throughout the area.

"The commissioning at the new Boston consolidated TRACON further confirms that STARS is the future of terminal air traffic control for the FAA," said Bob Eckel, vice president of Raytheon Air Traffic Management Systems. "We congratulate the FAA and the New England Region on this achievement and look forward to continuing our successful partnership with the FAA, National Air Traffic Controllers Association and Professional Airways Systems Specialists as we proceed down the site deployment waterfall."

STARS is a joint procurement for the FAA and Department of Defense (DoD). Twenty-one FAA and 14 DoD sites are currently controlling air traffic with STARS, with two recent service commissionings. These sites are supported with a national, joint FAA/DoD infrastructure of training, maintenance, testing and logistics.

The STARS system is a highly reliable, open architecture air traffic automation system that provides new high resolution color displays, new computer processing and communication equipment, six-level display of weather, multi-radar tracking and easy and rapid incorporation of new hardware and software features.

FMI: www.raytheon.com

Advertisement

More News

Airports Happy About Growing Unleaded AvGas Availability

Two San Mateo County Facilities Receive Swift Fuels San Mateo County announced that distribution of unleaded aviation gasoline at its airports is growing with the recent deliveries>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (11.10.24): Airspace Flow Program (AFP)

Airspace Flow Program (AFP) AFP is a Traffic Management (TM) process administered by the Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) where aircraft are assigned an Expect De>[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (11.10.24)

Aero Linx: Government of India, Ministry of Civil Aviation The Indian aviation market is on a high growth path. Total passenger traffic to, from and with in India, during Apr-Nov 2>[...]

Airborne 11.11.24: DRACO Returns!, Starship SIX, Piper AD Concerns

Also: X-59 Fires Up, BN2B-26 Islander Order, Plane Thief Pleads, CAE Launches Prodigy Draco Aircraft is aiming to raise $4.5 million to fund the development of its hyper short take>[...]

Airborne 11.06.24: Skyryse One, MASSIVE Lycoming AD, Coked Up C206

Also: Hartzell Expands, Japan V-22 Ills, RCAF H135 Deal, B-29 Doc On Tour Skyryse reservations for its Skyryse One First Edition helicopters have sold out in just six months. Early>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2024 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC