Don Antonucci, former President of the Lockheed Martin Transportation and Security Solutions Company, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors for Era Corporation. Mr. Antonucci joined Era’s board in 2006, and brings over 35 years of industry experience and leadership to his role as Chairman.

DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (German Air Traffic Services) has selected Era to provide multilateration surface surveillance for the planned Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS) at Hamburg Airport.

Era Corporation has received type certification for its next-generation surveillance system from the Slovak Republic, which certified the system according to ICAO Annex 10 and Eurocontrol surveillance standards.

NATS, recently voted the world's best air navigation service provider in Air Traffic Management's international survey, has selected Era to provide its Squid vehicle tracking units for London Gatwick Airport. The Squid units will support the airport’s Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (A-SMGCS), which will go live in April 2008.

Era Corporation announced today the formalization of its Military and Security business unit, which will be led by Standa Spurny.  Effective immediately, Mr. Spurny steps into the role of Vice President and General Manager for the Military and Security Solutions business unit, which produces surveillance products for the military and homeland security markets.  In this role, Mr. Spurny will have complete profit and loss responsibility for the business.

Era Corporation announced today that Russell Chew has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Chew brings over 20 years of air transportation leadership with a strong focus on strategic planning and operations.

Dr. Werner Langhans has been appointed Director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region for Era Corporation’s Air Traffic Management business unit. Dr. Langhans has an extensive background in multilateration and has been a champion for the technology ever since its inception.

Era Corporation announced that the Manchester Airport Group has selected MSS by Era, Era’s wide area multilateration and ADS-B surveillance solution, for East Midlands Airport, UK. MSS by Era will initially provide enhanced surveillance information for the airport’s environmental management program, with the option to extend the use of the system to support air traffic control operations, both on the surface and in the approach area.

Tim Quilter has been appointed Director of Product Management for Era’s Air Traffic Management business unit. Mr. Quilter brings extensive knowledge in the field of surveillance technology and over a decade of product management experience to Era.

Virtually unprecedented in the Airport Noise Monitoring industry, Era has recently delivered its AirScene.com NOMS system to the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport in Southern California on-time and on-budget.  This marks the first time in recent history that any Noise and Operations Management System, from any vendor, has been completed on-time while meeting or exceeding all customer requirements.  The Santa Barbara deployment helps validate Era’s groundbreaking combination of independent flight tracking ground stations and hosted applications to rapidly deploy powerful operations solutions for airports and airlines.