Sun, Dec 14, 2008
First Deliveries Slated For Q4 2009
CMC Electronics Inc. has received its first production order
from Hawker Beechcraft Corporation for CMC’s Integrated
Avionics System for the HBC T-6B Texan trainer aircraft in November
2008.
The IAS, known as the CMC Cockpit 4000, includes an Integrated
Avionics Computer, a Heads-Up Display, Up Front Control Panel, and
Multifunction Displays. CMC received the order for the first 35
aircraft in the production run after completing all necessary
program requirements.
This order comes approximately seven months after HBC
successfully conducted its first flight on the T-6B Texan in April
2008. CMC is scheduled to deliver its first production T-6B Cockpit
4000 in the fourth quarter of 2009.
The T-6B Texan is based on the successful Beechcraft T-6A,
already in service as the US military’s Joint Primary
Aircraft Training System aircraft, and is also the primary trainer
for the NATO Flying Training Canada, and the Hellenic Air Force of
Greece.
Through the introduction of the CMC
advanced avionics upgrade, the T-6B aircraft retains all of the
inherent training and flying characteristics that have made the
T-6A the most successful primary trainer in the world, while
introducing a state-of-the-art open architecture advanced avionics
suite that mirrors the systems and capabilities of today’s
front-line military aircraft.
"This order is a significant milestone for CMC," says
Jean-Michel Comtois, CMC’s vice president, military aviation.
"The Cockpit 4000 provides a cost-effective, advanced military
aviator training solution to air forces around the world, and
better positions CMC to capture the lion’s share of the basic
trainer global market for turboprop training aircraft."
CMC Electronics designs and produces technology electronics
products for the aviation and global positioning markets.
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