Honeywell Aerospace is a manufacturer of aircraft engines and avionics, as well as a producer of auxiliary power units (APUs) and other aviation products. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, it is a business unit of the Honeywell International conglomerate.
Honeywell Aerospace began in 1914. Over nearly a century, through various acquisitions, mergers and name changes, Honeywell Aerospace combines legacy companies Sperry, Bendix, Garrett AiResearch, Pioneer, Lycoming, Grimes, King Radio and Allied Signal.
The company experienced a boom during World War II, when it equipped bomber planes with avionics (electronic systems used on aircraft, artificial satellites, and spacecraft) and invented the auto-pilot. After the war the main focus became peacetime applications. Today Honeywell produces space equipment, turbine engines, auxiliary power units, brakes, wheels, synthetic vision, runway safety systems and other avionics.
Boeing 757 Testbed
The airplane, a vintage 1983 former Eastern Air Lines Boeing 757-225, has historically been used as an engine testbed for Honeywell business aircraft, in addition to testing new avionics and airborne weather radar. As engine testbed it can carry a third engine on the right side of the forward fuselage.
Its latest mission has turned it into the Connected Aircraft. The Connected Aircraft, as Honeywell calls it, is one which can transmit, receive, analyze and share data which results in a cost reduction to the operator.
Boeing 757-225, registration N757HW, built 1983, serial number 22194 Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 21 August 2018
Boeing 757-225, registration N757HW, built 1983, serial number 22194 Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 21 August 2018
