(EBACE – May 12, 2009) Esterline CMC Electronics’ new 10.4 inch Class 2 PilotView® Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) launched at NBAA 2008 has been selected by Boeing for the Next-Generation B-737s and BBJs. The Class 2 EFB system will be available on production aircraft and for retrofit.

(EBACE – May 12, 2009) Esterline CMC Electronics’ new 10.4 inch Class 2 PilotView® Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) launched at NBAA 2008 has entered production. Compact and portable, this avionics grade EFB system enables paperless cockpit operations, including electronic charts, graphical weather, aircraft and operator manuals.

(Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec - January 13, 2009) - Esterline CMC Electronics (CMC) will invest $149.4 million in research and development over the next five years following the Canadian government decision to support this initiative through a repayable investment for R&D

(Montreal, Canada – Dec. 17, 2008) CMC Electronics’ IntegriFlight™ CMA-5024 aviation Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver was certified recently by the FAA and Transport Canada to TSO-C145b Beta-3 and TSO-146 Delta-4. The C145 Beta-3 is the most stringent category for Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) navigation receivers and the C146 Delta-4 category allows these receivers to provide Precision Approach guidance signals to the aircraft’s autopilot and instrument displays to execute a Localizer Precision with Vertical (LPV) approach.

(Montreal, Canada – December 11, 2008) CMC Electronics Inc. (CMC) has received its first production order from Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) for CMC’s Integrated Avionics System (IAS) for the HBC T-6B Texan trainer aircraft in November 2008. The IAS, known as the CMC Cockpit 4000, includes an Integrated Avionics Computer (IAC), a Heads-Up Display (HUD), Up Front Control Panel (UFCP), and Multifunction Displays (MFDs). 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.

(Montreal, Canada – November 24, 2008) CMC Electronics has signed a teaming agreement with Patria Aviation of Finland for the exclusive marketing of cockpit avionics upgrades of BAE Systems Hawk Mk50/60 and 100 series trainer aircraft. The upgrades will be offered to existing Hawk Mk50/60 and 100 series operators.

(Montreal, Canada – October 20, 2008) CMC Electronics has been awarded a follow-on contract by the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to supply its Portable Mission Display known as TacView™ for the AC-130 Gunship aircraft. AFSOC intends to employ three TacView systems per cockpit installation to facilitate paperless cockpit operations, including aircraft data and procedure manuals, interactive electronic charts and improved situational awareness, using the U.S. Air Force FalconView™ mission planning system.

(Montreal, Canada – Oct. 20, 2008) CMC Electronics has been selected by Airbus Transport International (ATI) to supply its latest-generation IntegriFlight™ CMA-5024 Global Positioning System (GPS) Landing System Sensor for its fleet of five A300-600ST Beluga transport aircraft. ATI has already selected CMC Electronics’ state-of-the-art Flight Management System (FMS) known as the CMA-9000 for the retrofit of its A300-600ST fleet. The installation will consist of dual CMA-5024 systems, providing the aircraft with enhanced operational capability.

(Montreal, Canada – October 15, 2008) Patria of Finland recently flew CMC Electronics’ Cockpit 4000 integrated avionics suite on the Hawk Mk51 trainer aircraft from Halli Airfield, Finland. CMC’s avionics suite performed successfully during the one hour and forty minute first flight, which was flown by two Finnish Air Force test pilots. In February 2007, CMC Electronics announced that its Cockpit 4000 glass cockpit avionics had been selected by Patria for their upgrade of fifteen BAE Systems Hawk trainers for the Finnish Air Force.

(National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) – Oct. 5, 2008) CMC Electronics’ new 10.4 inch Class 2 PilotView® Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) launched at this year’s NBAA has been selected by Rockwell Collins as an option for its Cabin Entertainment System (CES). Compact and portable, this avionics grade EFB system enables paperless cockpit operations, including electronic charts, graphical weather, aircraft and operator manuals, while also providing cockpit connectivity and the hosting of display functions for Rockwell Collins’ Cabin Entertainment System.

(National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) – Oct. 5, 2008) CMC Electronics’ second-generation SureSight® CMA-2600 I-Series™ Integrated Sensor System has been selected by Rockwell Collins Head-up Guidance Systems (RCHGS) for their Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) on the Boeing Business Jet®. The I-Series sensor system will be integrated with RCHGS’ HGS-4000® Head-up Guidance System and offered to all current and future operators of Boeing 737 based Boeing Business Jets®. Certification by RCHGS of the Enhanced Flight Vision System as a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) is anticipated in 2009.

(National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) – Oct. 5, 2008) CMC Electronics has launched its new 10.4 inch Class 2 PilotView® Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) at this year’s NBAA. Compact and portable, this avionics grade EFB system enables paperless cockpit operations, including electronic charts, graphical weather, aircraft and operator manuals.

(National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) – Oct. 5, 2008) CMC Electronics and Pentastar Aviation, LLC of Waterford, Michigan, have formed a strategic alliance to pursue opportunities in the corporate and military aviation markets with CMC’s Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) product portfolio and Pentastar’s patent pending articulating yoke mount.

(National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) – Oct. 5, 2008) Pentastar Aviation, LLC of Waterford, Michigan, has taken delivery of CMC Electronics’ 2000th Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). Bruce Bailey, CMC Vice President of Commercial Aviation, presented Tony Bailey, Pentastar Aviation Maintenance Operations Director, with the Class 2 EFB system during CMC’s press conference held today.

(National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) – Oct. 5, 2008) CMC Electronics’ PilotView® Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) and CMC Electronics’ SureSight® M-Series™ Enhanced Vision System (EVS) sensor have been selected by Project Phoenix as optional equipment offered to their customers of CRJ-200 aircraft converted into business aircraft. The PilotView EFB will function as a stand-alone system and as a display for the M-Series EVS sensor.

(Farnborough Air Show – July 15, 2008) Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Marietta, Georgia, has selected CMC Electronics’ Portable Mission Display known as TacView™ to meet current and future C-130J Mobile Display System (MDS) requirements. TacView will facilitate secure tactical data link communications and paperless cockpit operations enabling unprecedented situational awareness for the crew. As a compact, portable unit, TacView provides MDS functionality in the C-130J, extending enhanced situational awareness to mission specialists, loadmasters and troop commanders in addition to the pilot and copilot.

(Farnborough Air Show – July 14, 2008) CMC Electronics’ Cockpit 4000 integrated avionics suite is on display in the Tucano™ k.2 upgraded cockpit demonstrator that is featured on the Marshall Aerospace stand (Hall 4, A12) at this year's Farnborough Air Show.

(Farnborough Air Show – July 14, 2008) CMC Electronics and Thales have signed a multi-year, exclusive contract for the development and manufacture of a Front End Assembly, incorporating a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), for a very important Thales program – the Multi-Function Control and Display Unit (MCDU) on the A320 aircraft family.

(Farnborough Air Show – July 14, 2008) CMC Electronics has completed deliveries of its new Portable Mission Display known as TacView™ to the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) for its AC-130 Gunship aircraft. The TacView system is offered in a dual installation that will enable paperless cockpit operations, including aircraft data and procedures manuals, interactive electronic charts and improved situational awareness, using the U.S. Air Force FalconView™ mission planning system.

(Farnborough Air Show – July 14, 2008) CMC Electronics and Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) have signed a 12-year agreement for the supply of more than 35,000 hybrid microcircuits for the latest generation, active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar system selected for the F-18E/F and F-15E aircraft.