First sustained operational sorties combine Rivet Joint intelligence gathering with Compass Call electronic attack to refine ...

Northwest ordered 36 Embraer 175 regional jets in a two-class, 76-seat configuration for its new regional carrier subsidiary, Compass, which will fly as Northwest Airlink. Northwest already contracts ...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied dual protests by Bombardier and Boeing over the U.S. Air Force’s decision to allow L3 Technologies to choose the next EC-130H Compass Call ...

Compass Point keeps a Buy rating on FTAI Aviation (FTAI) with a $181 price target after the company announced its “Strategic Capital initiative.” All of the engines that are part of this partnership ...

The G550 business jet platform is taking over the communications intelligence and jamming role from the EC-130H Hercules. Wearing primer and registered to Gulfstream as N591GA, one of the first ...

Breeze Aviation, modifying its start-up plans in part because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, now plans to launch with six months of charter operations starting in October and has cut a deal with ...

The first EC-130H "Compass Call" aircraft, modified to disrupt enemy communications, arrived at at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona in March 1982. That aircraft, tail number 1587, made its ...

In the 1980s, I worked as an avionics supervisor at Hayes International Aircraft Corp. in Birmingham, Ala. A Boeing KC-135 test pilot on return from a test flight told me in a debriefing that they had ...

BAE Systems has begun work to transition its advanced Compass Call electronic warfare (EW) system from aging Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules base aircraft to more modern special-mission Gulfstream ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compass Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northwest Airlines (NYSE:NWA), today announced that the regional carrier will construct an aircraft maintenance ...

The EC-37B, the Air Force's next Compass Call aircraft, will be a modified version of the Gulfstream G550 business jet packed with jamming and other electronic warfare equipment. The Air Force already ...

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