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Newsletter June 2007 Volume 23 No 2 CONTENTS I – INDUSTRY NEWS I - INDUSTRY NEWS ....................................................... 1 AIR DATA.......................................................................... 1 AIR DATA BOMBARDIER ................................................................... 1 http://www.airdata.ca CAE ................................................................................. 2 CMC ÉLECTRONIQUE ........................................................ 2 Financial support of $900,000 EXELTECH AÉROSPATIALE................................................. 3 MAETTA ........................................................................... 3 Air Data will benefit from a loan of $900,000 provided by MECHTRONIX ................................................................... 3 Investissement Québec for international marketing of its MSB DESIGN..................................................................... 3 JetAir family of products. This project was launched in NORDUYN NORSEMAN....................................................... 3 2005 thanks to a $5 million investment by the Fonds de PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA............................................... 3 solidarité FTQ, and could generate up to 180 jobs. The purpose of the JetAir family is to reduce the risks from II- TECHNOLOGY ............................................................ 4 contaminated air in aircraft cabins by filtration and purification of the air. Air Data’s technology is based on HVOF PROCESSES ............................................................ 4 technology used in the Russian Mir Space Station, where it plays an essential role in the very efficient III- INDUSTRY DÉVELOPEMENT.................................... 4 destruction of all kinds of bacteria and viruses. QUALITY .......................................................................... 4 IV- MANPOWER AND TRAINING .................................... 4 BOMBARDIER ÉCOLE NATIONALE D’AÉROTECHNIQUE (ÉNA) ..................... 4 http://www.bombardier.com V- SHOWS, EXHIBITIONS, MISSIONS AND Tatarstan Airlines orders six Bombardier CRJ900 SYMPOSIA ................................................................... 5 regional jets QUÉBEC AEROSPACE ASSOCIATION (AQA) ......................... 5 Tatarstan Airlines, based in Kazan, in the Russian CAMAQ ............................................................................ 5 Republic of Tatarstan, has placed a firm order for six TURBO EXPO 20075 Bombardier CRJ900 regional jets and taken options on four additional CRJ900s. Tatarstan is a Republic in CONTACTING US ................................................................. 5 west-central Russia, at the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers. The value of the order is approximately US$217 million. Lufthansa orders 15 Bombardier CRJ900 regional jets Deutsche Lufthansa AG has placed a firm order for 15 CRJ900 regional jets. The value of the order is approximately US$584 million. The new CRJ900s will be added to Lufthansa’s regional aircraft fleet, which is used on European routes and for hub feed. One hundred and ninety-six CRJ900 aircraft have been ordered by, or are in service with, Adria Airways, Air Nostrum, Air One, Arik Airk, Atlasjet Airlines, Delta Airlines, Lufthansa CityLine, MAT Macedonian Airlines, Mesa Air Group, Myair.com, Northwest Airlines, SkyWest Airlines and Tatarstan Airlines. Direction des équipements de transport CAE training centre in Morristown, New Jersey, and has been http://www.cae.com jointly certified by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and by the European Joint Aviation Acquisition of MultiGen-Paradigm Authorities (JAA). Falcon 7X maintenance training began in the fall of 2006, before the certification and CAE has finalized an agreement with Parallax Capital service entry of the aircraft itself. Partners LLC for the acquisition of MultiGen-Paradigm Inc., for $18 million. MultiGen-Paradigm is a leading CAE and Flight Options have signed an agreement supplier of software for the creation and visualisation of for maintenance technician training real-time three-dimensional (3D) simulations. Its primary products include MultiGen Creator, Creator Terrain CAE and Flight Options have signed a five-year contract Studio, Vega-Prime and Lyra, and the company has under which CAE will be the sole source provider of more than 3,000 customers. Its headquarters are in maintenance technician training for Flight Options until Dallas, and it also has offices in Santa Clara, California. 2012. The maintenance technician training will be delivered at CAE’s Dallas training centre and at its new Sale of simulators to Flight Training Finance LLC North-East United States training centre. Training will also be provided at Flight Options bases. The company CAE has announced the sale of a new CAE 7000 Series offers fractional ownership and aircraft leasing services. Embraer 190 Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) to Flight Training Finance LLC (FTF), a simulator leasing Contracts valued at $70 million for five simulators specialist. CAE will also supply a used Embraer 145 Full-Flight Simulator (FFS), originally built by the CAE has announced the sales of five Full-Flight company, and which it will upgrade. The estimated Simulators (FFS) with a total value of $70 million. These contract value is $20 million. The EMB190 simulator will contracts bring to ten the number of FFS’s that CAE has be fitted with a CAE-designed electric motion system sold to-date in fiscal year 2008. CAE will deliver a CAE and the latest generation visual solution, which includes Series 7000 Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) and Boeing 747 the new CAE Tropos-6000 visual system and Liquid ground school training devices to Nippon Cargo Airlines Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) projectors. The simulator will (NCA). The Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) will be the first to be delivered in the spring of 2008 and will be used to represent the new B747-8 Freighter. CAE will develop train pilots from Copa Airlines. CAE will deliver the and build a B747-400 FFS, which will be convertible into EMB145 simulator during 2007 to Aeromexico’s Mexico a B747-8F, subject to approval by the Japan Civil City training centre, where it will be used to train Aviation Bureau (JCAB). NCA is the launch customer for Aerolitoral pilots. the B747-8F, and the first aircraft will be delivered in late 2009. B757 simulation equipment CAE has also won an order from Lufthansa Flight CAE has signed a contract with an undisclosed Training (LFT) for a Bombardier Q400 CAE Series 5000 customer for the supply of a range of Boeing 757 simulator. LFT was one of the launch customers for the simulation equipment, including two Full-Flight CAE Series 5000. Simulators (FSS), a Level 6 Flight Training Device (FTD) and a family of CAE Simfinity training devices. The The CAE-Embraer joint venture has committed to two contract is valued at more that $34 million. CAE Series 5000 simulators for Phenom aircraft. The joint venture, which was announced in October 2006, Maintenance training equipment for the German will provide entitlement and ongoing training for pilots Armed Forces NH90 fleet and ground crew for Embraer’s Phenom 100 Very Light Jet (VLJ) and Phenom 300 Light Jet (LJ) business jets. CAE has announced that it has been awarded a contract One of the simulators will be delivered the CAE training by Helicopter Training Media International GmbH (HTMI) centre in Dallas in 2008, and the second to CAE’s for the design and development of virtual training United Kingdom training centre in 2009. systems. They will be used in maintenance training for the German Armed Forces NH90 helicopter fleet. Under Finally, CAE has sold an A320 simulator to Aviation the terms of the contract, CAE is responsible for Training Australasia, better known as Ansett Flight development of Virtual Maintenance Trainer (VMT) Simulator Centre. It will be installed this summer in software, instructor stations, training courseware, and a Ansett’s Melbourne training centre. training management system for the NH90 helicopter. Certification of CAE Level C simulator for the Falcon CMC ÉLECTRONIQUE 7X http://www.cmcelectronics.ca/ CAE has achieved an important milestone in the service CMC’s PilotView EFBs on Falcons and a Learjet introduction of its Dassault 7X training program with the provisional Level C certification of what is the first Pentastar Aviation, of Waterford (Michigan), has Dassault 7X Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) in the world. The received Supplementary Type Certificates (STCs) for simulator is located in CAE’s North-East United States the installation of CMC Électronique Class 2 PilotView 2 Electronic Flight Bags (EFB) on the Falcon 50, Falcon require approximately 200 kg of raw material, compared 900 and Falcon 900EX, as well as the Learjet 45. to the 2.6 tonnes required when the part is machined. CMC’s Enhanced Vision System (EVS) sensor certified on the PC-12 MECHTRONIX SYSTÈMES http://www.mechtronix.ca The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the installation of the Suresight M-Series Enhanced Vision Winner of “Business of the year” and “Export” System (EVS) sensor on the Pilatus PC-12. Pilatus awards Business Aircraft had already selected the sensor and the PilotView Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) as optional The Québec Federation of Chambers of Commerce has factory-installed equipment for the PC-12. The PilotView selected Mechtronix Systèmes as the recipient of the EFB will function both a stand-alone system, and to “Business of