Curtiss-Wright signs design and manufacturing agreement with AgustaWestland

Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE:CW) today announced that it has signed a follow-on, long-term Design and Manufacturing Agreement with AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, to provide data recording and replay equipment, ice detection equipment and air data computers for use in GrandNew, AW139 and AW149 aircraft. Curtiss-Wright has been a supplier to AgustaWestland for the past 10 years.

"Curtiss-Wright is proud to have been selected by AgustaWestland to provide a wide array of our industry-leading electronic aircraft components," said Martin R. Benante, CEO and Chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. "This agreement represents the continued supply of these products as well as expanding the product portfolio supplied to AgustaWestland for current and future aircraft."

Aircraft components provided by Curtiss-Wright under the agreement include Data Acquisition Flight Recorder, Multi Purpose Flight Recorder, Cockpit Control Unit, Cockpit Area Microphone, Recorder Independent Power Supply, Cockpit Panel Quick Access Recorder, Generic Air Data Unit, Ice Severity Detection System and PGS Flight Recorder Replay System.

Curtiss-Wright designs, develops and manufactures the components at its Motion Control segment's Avionics facility in Christchurch, U.K.