SubscribeNorthrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that its Europe-based subsidiary, Park Air Systems, achieved significant successes in 2007 with the delivery of navigation equipment, including instrument landing systems (ILS) and satellite landing systems (SLS), to a total of 29 countries.
"More than 100,000,000 safe landings have been carried out using our navigation equipment, NORMARC, at over 700 airports," says Cato Engebretsen, Navigation Director at Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems in Norway. "2007 was a particularly successful year for the NORMARC equipment with developments and delivery in both existing markets and the penetration of new ones.
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With the introduction of the new NORMARC 6512 Doppler VHF omni-directional rangefinder into our navigation product portfolio, we expect to see further growth and market penetration for 2008."
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems' NORMARC ILS is now being used at airports in new markets such as Cairo, Egypt, and system installation will commence this month in Brasilia, Brazil; Astana, Kazakhstan; and Doha, Qatar. In April 2007, the SLS, the world's first SCAT-I system, was installed in Brønnøysund, Norway.
In its existing markets, the company increased its market share dramatically in the Middle East region and was awarded a contract by Dubai Civil Aviation, for the installation of CAT III ILS at the new Dubai World Central Airport.
The navigation equipment is part of a complete ATC system contract that also includes Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems' surveillance and communication equipment. Delivery to Dubai World Central Airport will commence in April this year. In addition, landing systems were delivered to Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Israel.
In China Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems' maintained its high level of sales of navigation equipment making it the company's largest single market and establishing Northrop Grumman's navigation equipment as the industry benchmark.
In a contract awarded by Skyguide, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems successfully delivered the first 20 CAT III-certified, element localizers to Zurich, Switzerland. This installation will enable reduced clearance coverage to avoid reflections and therefore increase safety.
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, based in Peterborough, UK, and Oslo and Horten, Norway, supplies communication, navigation and surveillance systems for air-space operations worldwide. In Europe, Northrop Grumman operates from locations in France, Germany, Italy and Norway, providing navigation, air traffic control and postal automation systems.
In the UK, Northrop Grumman operates from primary locations in London, Fareham, Chester, Coventry, New Malden, Peterborough, RAF Waddington and Solihull and provides avionics, communications, electronic warfare systems, marine navigation systems, robotics, C4ISR solutions and mission planning, IT systems and software development.