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Team Spartan is competing for Canada’s FWSAR with the C-27J Spartan aircraft. From left: Umberto Rossi, Leonardo Aircraft Division FWSAR campaign leader; Michel Potvin, president, Esterline Avionics Systems; Gian Lorenzo Cornado, Italian Ambassador to Canada; Italian MGen Dario Ranieri, director of international policy and international relations at the General Secretariat of Defense. Team Spartan Photo
Leonardo-Finmeccanica, through its Aircraft Division, and Canada-based Esterline CMC Electronics (CMC) have strengthened their relationship as part of Team Spartan through an agreement for the supply of high-performance avionics systems for the C-27J Spartan fleet.
Team Spartan, led by General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada, Leonardo Aircraft Division and DRS Technologies-Canada, is competing for Canada’s fixed-wing search and rescue program (FWSAR ) with the C-27J Spartan aircraft.
Under the terms of the agreement, Esterline CMC Electronics will supply its high-performance CMA-9000 flight management system, CMA-5024 GPS landing system sensor and TacView portable mission display to the C-27J Spartan fleet.
“It is a great honour for Esterline CMC Electronics to reach an agreement with Leonardo Aircraft, a world-class aircraft OEM [original equipment manufacturer],” said Michel Potvin, president, Esterline Avionics Systems. “This is a gratifying endorsement of our core navigational systems expertise and pedigree.”
The C-27J fleet will comply with the forecasted FAA and ICAO standards for the communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management system. Leonardo Aircraft Photo
“The collaboration with CMC Electronics is another tangible initiative of the Team Spartan’s commitment to provide the Canadian industry with a real incremental value,” said Umberto Rossi, Leonardo Aircraft Division FWSAR campaign leader. “With the C-27J FWSAR, Team Spartan will create and support additional work, jobs and opportunities within Canada’s aerospace sector.”
The latest generation CMA-9000 flight management will provide the C-27J aircraft with multi-sensory based navigation and enhanced operational capability. Its unique combination of civil certification with advanced tactical functions, radio management and night vision goggle-capability make it the product of choice for military and commercial operations.
The CMA-9000’s large navigation database capability offers flexible global operations and will allow the aircraft to make the most efficient use of the airspace as it is modernized over the next 20 years. The C-27J fleet will comply with the forecasted Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards for the communication, navigation, surveillance and Air Traffic management (CNS/ATM) system.
