Elliott Aviation is offering guaranteed four-week and three-week downtimes for certain Garmin G5000 and G1000 NXi installs, respectively, the Illinois-based MRO provider announced this week. These guarantees apply to retrofits of the G5000 on Cessna Citation Excel/XLS twin jets and the G1000 NXi on Beechcraft King Air turboprops. If the work isn’t done within the guaranteed time, Elliott Aviation will pay the customer $3,000 per day over the three- or four-week period, up to a $15,000 maximum.

To date, Elliott said it has completed cockpit retrofits of more than 50 total G5000 systems in the Beechjet 400A/Hawker 400XP and Citation Excel/XLS, and more than 350 G1000/G1000 NXi systems in King Airs. Of its G5000 installs, 12 have been completed on the Excel/XLS at its headquarters in Moline and its facility in Des Moines, Iowa.

G5000 replaces Honeywell Primus 1000 avionics on the Citation Excel/XLS, including autopilot and flight director. The Garmin flight deck features wide-area augmentation system/localizer performance with vertical guidance (WAAS/LPV), ADS-B, SiriusXM weather, electronic charts, SafeTaxi, engine monitor data, and emergency descent mode. G1000 NXi replaces Collins avionics and also includes a new autopilot, WAAS/LPV, and SiriusXM weather, as well as georeferenced charts, RVSM, SurfaceWatch runway monitoring, and cockpit connectivity.