Cockpit voice and flight data recorder to equip T-6 Texan II trainer aircraft
NewsApril 29, 2021
DAVIDSON, N.C. Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that it was selected by Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) to provide its Fortress flight recorder system to upgrade the T-6 Texan II trainer aircraft used by the U.S. Air Force and Navy.
Under the agreement, Curtiss-Wright claims it is providing SRC with a new variant of the Fortress CVR25 recorder, developed specifically for use on military fixed and rotary wing platforms.
The Fortress CVR25 combines a CVR, FDR, integrated data acquisition, and an independent power supply in a single lightweight, compact unit. The Fortress recorder is designed with the ability to acquire additional data as customer needs evolve.
Curtiss-Wright’s custom Fortress recorder is a form-fit-function upgrade to the existing flight recording system utilized on the T-6 Texan II. It is designed to protect parametric flight data and three channels of voice communications to crash conditions in accordance with the ED-112A1 standard. In addition to serving as a combined CVR/FDR flight recorder, Fortress will also aim to support data acquisition and real time data processing used for post-flight analysis.
