Esterline Wins CMA-9000 FMS Contracts

Esterline CMC Electronics (CMC; Hall 1 Stand B60) announced key wins here at Farnborough for its CMA-9000 Flight Management System (FMS). Leading off, the FMS has been certified by EASA on the Airbus A300-600, having received a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) last month. The STC results from a contract signed last year with an undisclosed European cargo airline to upgrade the legacy FMSs on its fleet of 21 A300-600 jets.

The STC’d installation consists of dual CMA-9000 FMSs, and will allow “unrestricted operation of the A300-600 fleet for the foreseeable future,” said Michel Potvin, president, Esterline Avionics Systems. Deliveries of the units began early this year and will conclude by August. The upgraded fleet will comply with the forecasted FAA and ICAO standards for the Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) system.

The CMA-9000 FMS incorporates vertical navigation functionality and provides a much larger navigation database, improved performance optimization, and an upgrade path to increased datalink capability.

Esterline also announced here two recent contract awards to supply CMA-9000 FMSs as well as other high-performance avionics systems for Antonov transport aircraft. Under the first contract, the company will supply the CMA-9000 and its CMA-5024 GPS Sensor along with MFD-2068 multi-function displays (MFDs) in a dual configuration for installation aboard seven AN-124s operated by Antonov Airlines.

The second agreement calls for provisioning dual CMA-9000s along with five MFD-3068 MFDs for each of 60 new AN-148/158/178 aircraft for commercial and military use. The MFD-3068 features Modular Open System Architecture (MOSArt) middleware built to non-proprietary industry standards.