Retrofit Avionics

If you can live with a small screen, there are ways to save money on a system upgrade, but budget more for extras.

Upgrading the instrument panel on a new-to-you airplane works much like remodeling your house. These days, aircraft owners are focusing on upgrading their panels with the latest in glass technology.

Garmin’s new autopilot for the AStar smoothes out the rough edges.

Industry group reported a nearly 22 percent year-over-year increase in 2022 sales across its surveyed companies.

The company has received an STC for more than 500 aircraft make and models.

It turns out that aircraft owners who upgrade their cockpits with the latest glass-panel avionics share some interesting similarities with shoppers for smartphones, flat-screen TVs, laptops or just about any other broadly adopted consumer electronics product.When the first smartphones hit the market several years ago they were cumbersome to use, lacked capabilities and cost a […]

Sandel Avionics is continuing testing of its Avilon integrated flight deck, created as a lower-priced alternative for the King Air retrofit market, as the company reports certification and initially deliveries are on pace for early next year. Flying had the chance to see the latest version of Avilon at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, […]

Cessna Citation owners can now take advantage of Garmin International’s advanced avionics technology as the Olathe, Kansas-based company’s G700 Txi is now available for the light business jet series. Citation owners can get a single or dual 10.6-inch display installed through an STC made available by JETTECH, based in Broomfield, Colorado, and can be installed […]

European King Air B200 and B300-series operators can now take advantage of Rockwell Collins’ latest touch screen avionics suite – Pro Line Fusion. The Pro Line Fusion retrofit was FAA certified in 2016 and represents the panel delivered with new Beechcraft King Airs coming out of Textron Aviation’s factory in Wichita, Kansas. Installed in the […]

Garmin is bringing safety enhancing capabilities to legacy aircraft models with the approval of its GFC 500 retrofit autopilot STC. The Olathe, Kansas-based company added the Grumman AA-5 series airplanes, which include Traveler, Cheetah and Tiger models, as well as the 140-horsepower Piper PA-28 to the list. The GFC 500 is also available for many […]