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 ...

Trimec Aviation, a certified Part 145 repair station based in Fort Worth, has added a Capital Avionics CA-420 digital compass rose system to calibrate an aircraft magnetic compass. The aircraft ...

‘Compass Call saved my life’ Kirschman: When you transmit on a radio, Compass Call can see and hear what you’re doing and very accurately locate where you are. Sometimes we tracked signals to help ...

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 ...

Two EA-37B Compass Call aircraft stopped at RAF Mildenhall for fuel during what may be the type’s first operational deployment abroad, reports suggesting Turkey as their destination. Two U.S. Air ...

We didn’t know what a C-2400 LP was before we saw [David’s] video below, but it turned out to be pretty interesting. The device is an aircraft compass and after replacing it, he decided to take it ...

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 and L3Harris Technologies has delivered the first of 10 EC-37B Compass Call aircraft to the US Air Force for combined developmental and operational testing. It is a significant step in ...