Lufthansa Technik and Airbus Corporate Jets have renewed an agreement under which they cooperate on cabin designs for the Airbus A318 Elite, extending it to 2020. The agreement started in 2005 when the ACJ318 was launched, with Lufthansa Technik contracted to design the cabin in partnership with Airbus and then to install the cabins in customer aircraft.

The Elite cabin “introduced the wider and taller cabin of the ACJ320 to a broader market,” according to Lufthansa Technik. Deliveries began in 2007, with 19 produced to date. Early Elite cabins were installed at Lufthansa Technik’s completions center in Hamburg but later this work was switched to Tulsa, Okla., where the company’s subsidiary Bizjet International has done the work. Recently it completed the first of an updated version–the Airbus ACJ318 Enhanced–which introduced several features as standard that had previously been options, for example, domed ceilings. –I.S.

To help customers outfit their Airbuses and Boeings, Lufthansa Technik’s creative design department is offering electronic cabin configurator tools for portable devices, which it says allows rapid design for ACJ and BBJ completions. The configurator tools can also show interactive 3-D views of the interiors.

The tools can be used for the ACJ318Elite and its own Leadership Select modular concept for the Airbus ACJ319 and Boeing BBJ2.

Leadership Select allows the customer to “combine a multitude of different cabin elements to create an almost completely individualized cabin layout,” according to the company. Operators of the ACJ319, for example, can choose from among 96 variations, and there are 720 combinations available for the BBJ2 and other comparable aircraft.

The e-configurators can be viewed at Lufthansa Technik’s NBAA exhibit (No. 2289).