The merger with Northrop Grumman has now allied Lockheed to Airbus's great rival in civil aircraft.
Eventually, he said, there would have to be a combined European aerospace group embracing military and civil aircraft.
Last year, Airbus slipped behind Boeing in terms of civil aircraft deliveries, having been ahead between 2003 and 2011.
He starts every quest for a new acquisition by consulting the collector's bible, the nine-volume U.S. Civil Aircraft Series.
Larger than any previous civil aircraft, the A380 is 30 per cent bigger than the current largest jetliner, Boeing's 747-400.
It cites US data on a variety of flights involving Iranian civil aircraft as well as Iranian and Syrian military transports.
Thus American regulators were happy for Boeing, a giant manufacturer of civil aircraft, to take over McDonnell Douglas, an ailing smaller firm.
The market was the same worldwide one for large civil aircraft.
Given the impossibility of further growth in its core market, the strategy of broadening into civil aircraft, space and foreign markets has probably been rather sensible for Lockheed.
The origins of the dispute lie in America's decision, at Boeing's prompting, to withdraw in 2004 from a 12-year-old bilateral agreement with Europe governing trade in large civil aircraft.
The vaunted British brand is in the soup over allegations sparked by a whistleblower that for at least six years Rolls-Royce paid bribes to secure deals for its civil aircraft engines in Indonesia.
To Dr Warren's surprise, the device was at first rejected by aviation authorities as having "little immediate direct use in civil aircraft" while pilots described it as a "Big Brother" spying on their actions.
Mr Rumsfeld has welcomed India's decision to end a five-month ban on Pakistani civil aircraft entering its airspace, withdraw its navy from waters near Pakistan and to name, but not yet send, an ambassador to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Critics argue that, while it is true some of the high performance technologies essential to advanced fighter aircraft would not directly translate, the skills and industrial capabilities required to produce such specialized systems, however, could have considerable applicability to civil aircraft production.
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Earlier this year that process of review led the government to decide that the existing package of measures for in-flight security should be reinforced, and deterrence increased, by the development of a capability to place covert, specially trained armed police officers aboard UK civil aircraft, should that be warranted.
In theory, the four companies, which are also partners in the Airbus civil-aircraft consortium, know precisely where they are heading.
EADS, on the other hand, are trying to seduce the Italians with an even more tempting prospect: a share (perhaps 5%) of the Airbus civil-aircraft consortium, which currently groups Britain, France, Germany and Spain.
Clinton signed a bill in 1994 setting limits on civil lawsuits against aircraft manufacturers.
Practical experience with a real commercial aircraft is a requirement of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) if students are to qualify as licensed aircraft maintenance engineers.
Lilliputian's fuel cell has been approved for use on commercial aircraft by the International Civil Aviation Organization and a United Nations body that regulates shipment of hazardous materials.
In their memorandum they agreed that an integrated European Aerospace and Defence Company should embrace civil, military transport and combat aircraft as well as helicopters, space launchers and guided weapons.
Besides the usual panoply of search-and-rescue aircraft deployed by America's Civil Air Patrol, which wound down its search on September 17th, a different sort of search effort is being conducted online, using satellite photographs.
Between 1 January and 30 September 2012 there were 18 reported incidents against aircraft approaching Gatwick Airport, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
Arun Mishra, India's director general of civil aviation, said only two of the 17 repossessed aircraft have received airworthiness certificates, which allow them to be flown out of the country.
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The German civil aviation ministry, for example, has demanded to inspect aircraft, as well as the company's operation manual and backgrounders on its engineers and pilots.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) banned similar types of the aircraft from flying over water - but other versions were allowed to resume flights on Friday.
People shining lasers at aircraft faced up to five years in prison under the Civil Aviation Act, he said.
The Civil Aviation Authority said anyone who witnessed lasers being shone at any aircraft should report incidents to the police "because it is a real danger to pilots".
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Sweden is too small a country to support Saab's defence business, and the civil-aerospace business is suffering because of an overcrowded market for regional aircraft.
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