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15 January 2013
Cobham Digital Control System Audio Selected for AW119Kx Helicopter
PRESCOTT, Arizona - Cobham's Digital Audio Control System (DACS) has been selected for Life Flight Network's fifteen new AgustaWestland AW119Kx single-engine helicopters. Life Flight Network of Aurora, Oregon - one of the world's leading air medical transport providers - is the first customer for the AW119Kx and will be taking delivery of the aircraft during 2013.
DACS is forward-fit on more medium and heavy helicopters than any other digital audio system in the world, including AgustaWestland's very successful GrandNew.
Cobham Aerospace Communication's DACS distributes and controls aircraft audio to/from all transceivers, receivers, and audio warning systems. It's compact and lightweight, maximizing space utilization and enhancing payload capacity. The system is flexible and configurable to specific customer specifications utilizing DACS software.
Cobham specializes in meeting the demand for data, connectivity and bandwidth in defense, security and commercial environments. Offering a technically diverse and
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innovative range of technologies and services, the Group protects lives and livelihoods, responding to customer needs with agility that differentiates it. The most important thing we build is trust. Employing more than 10,000 people on five continents, the Group has customers and partners in over 100 countries.
About Cobham Aerospace Communications
Cobham Aerospace Communications designs and manufactures navigation, communication and airborne networking products and systems for commercial, business and military aircraft. Our products are in use on Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, ATR, Bell, Eurocopter, and AgustaWestland platforms and with military forces in more than 100 countries. Cobham Aerospace Communications is recognized as a system provider for intercoms and
integrated audio panels, including the Radio Audio Integrated Management System
(RAIMS) for the Airbus A380 and A350. The business is also a leader in aircraft lighting,
on-board man machine interfaces and microwave systems and components such as diodes and modules, ferrite devices, RF filters, and waveguides. Cobham Aerospace Communications is a Center of Excellence for slip ring design and manufacture in applications from wind turbines to helicopter rotor de-icing.
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