RTX's Arm Wins a Contract for Upgrading U.K. Chinook Helicopters

RTX Corporation’s (RTX) unit, Collins Aerospace, recently secured a contract worth $19 million to configure a fleet of new H-47 Chinooks for the U.K. Royal Air Force with its Common Avionics Architecture System ("CAAS") avionics management suite. Work associated with this contract will be executed in Cedar Rapids, IA, and Huntsville, AL.These cockpit upgrades will make the U.K. Chinooks interoperable with the U.S. Chinooks as both will be using the same avionics system, advanced digital cockpit displays and ...