L-3 Aviation Recorders -- the locally based maker of "black boxes" for the aerospace industry -- said it signed a deal with AeroMechanical Services Ltd. to sell the Canadian company's real-time data communications and Internet data delivery products.
The Canadian company's products will be marketed under the brand "FLYHT" alongside L-3's flight recorder.
"Together with L-3's flight recorder and Electronic Flight Bag products, these AMA product and service solutions offer customers the ability to receive, record, store, monitor, transmit and analyze critical aircraft flight data, in real time when necessary, to cost effectively improve aircraft performance and operational safety," said the Sarasota County-based unit of defense and aerospace company L-3 Communications Holdings Inc.
AeroMechanical Services also will be the provider to L-3 of Iridium-based real-time data communications and Internet data delivery solutions.
"L-3 is extremely pleased to offer to its extensive worldwide airline and OEM customer base a complete flight data storage, transmission and management system," Bruce Coffey, president of L-3 Aviation Recorders, said in a statement.
The local unit is based off Cattlemen Road in Sarasota County and employs 250. It now controls 70 percent of the world market for recorders used by airlines and 80 percent of the world's marine data recorders.
