Cabin Interior and Electronics

News and developments about everything that goes into the cabin of an aircraft, from floor coverings to headliners, with a special emphasis on in-flight entertainment, communications and other electronics for passengers. If it is in the cabin of an aircraft, it’s covered here.

Cabin Interior and Electronics

EMS Technologies To Acquire Avionics Manufacturer Formation

EMS Technologies has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire Moorestown, N.J.-based Formation, a provider of airborne wireless network products that ena
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MAC Wins Polish Presidential Helo Bid

MAC Aircraft Interior Specialists (formerly McCarthy Interiors) has won a $1.75 million contract to design and build quick-change executive interior kits f
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Yankee Pacific Creates New Division

Yankee Pacific Aerospace has merged two of its holdings– Executive Aircraft Completions (EAC) and Cabin Innovations– into a single division called Cabin In
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Special Report: Cabin electronics 2009

This year manufacturers brought to market a number of electronics calculated to bring a smile to the face of even the most jaded business jet owner.
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Regional makeovers find a ready market

at a time when everyone seems to be looking for a bargain, regional jets reconfigured for an executive role–available at considerably less than half the pr
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ICG Gains PMA Approval for NxtLink Systems

International Communications Group of Newport News, Va., has received parts manufacturer authority (PMA) for the NxtLink ICS-120A and ICS-220A communicatio
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Jet Aviation Basel opens Falcon Completion Hangar

Jet Aviation Basel has completed its 35,520-sq-ft hangar 1A extension, an addition that will better accommodate its cabin completion work on green Falcons.
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Project Phoenix CRJs to get MedAire Package

Project Phoenix, launched in 2007 to broker the acquisition and sale of CRJ200 regional jets in an executive configuration, recently announced an agreement
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Dean Aircraft Interiors Snapped Up By Ocean Sky

Ocean Sky, a UK-based executive charter operator rapidly expanding its services,
has acquired Dean Aircraft Interiors.
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Project Phoenix signs Egyptian CRJ200 Customer

Despite sagging economies worldwide, the demand for CRJ200 conversions to executive configuration appears to be gaining momentum.
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First Design Q Avro RJ70 rolls out

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has completed the first Avro RJ70 executive aircraft with the Design Q interior.
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Goderich gets Royal Jet BBJ contracts

Genesis Custom Jetliners, an executive completion and refurbishment broker/agent, has been selected to redesign and upgrade “a number” of Boeing Business J
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Acoustic Package Claimed To Cut Cabin Noise by 30 Percent

A new thermal/acoustic barrier package promises to reduce cabin noise by as much as 30 percent.
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AMAC Opens In Basel with A320 Completion

AMAC Aerospace, launched in July 2007, is ready for business in the first of two new hangars at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, Switzerland.
Ac
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Nord-Micro Picks CTT Environmental Systems

CTT Systems of Nyköping, Sweden, and Nord-Micro of Frankfurt, Germany, have signed an agreement allowing CTT to develop and deliver for Nord-Micro its zona
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Gore Design Wins A340-200 Contract

MAZ Aviation in the United Arab Emirates has selected Gore Design Completions of San Antonio to refurbish the executive interior of an A340-200 for a Middl
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Flying Colours Completes Second CRJ200

Flying Colours of Peterborough, Ontario, has delivered its second CRJ200 executive conversion.
Aircraft

Luxury cars inspire Learjet 85 cabin

While Bombardier’s split with Grob on the Learjet 85 program was one topic of conversation at the NBAA Convention in October, it was that aircraft’s cabin
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Lufthansa Technik Moves into Competition’s Backyard

Lufthansa Technik, one of the world’s largest independent centers for single-aisle and widebody bizliner interior completion and refurbishment, has opened
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Cessna Unveils Latest Columbus Mockup

At NBAA 2008, Cessna unveiled the latest cabin mockup of its new Citation Columbus.
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Comlux Acquires Indianapolis Jet Center

Aircraft charter and management provider Comlux The Aviation Group has expanded its reach to the North American completion and refurbishment market with th
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Duncan To Open New Center in Utah

Duncan Aviation plans to build a new, 320,000-sq-ft facility at Provo Municipal Airport in Utah.
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Texas Aviation Delivers a Ferrari

Helicopter interiors specialist Texas Aviation Services has delivered a “Ferrari styled” Eurocopter EC 130 to Mike Herzog of Portland, Ore.
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Refurb On the Fly from Monarch Aircraft

Monarch Aircraft Restoration Services, a San Diego-based Part 145 repair station providing interior refurbishment, has expanded its capabilities by adding
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Ovation Select Promises ‘Seamless’ Electronics Integration

Honeywell has launched its redesigned Ovation Select cabin management system, a package that “seamlessly integrates entertainment and connectivity technolo
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Midcoast Opens Narrowbody Hangar

Midcoast Aviation, with an eye to the burgeoning single-aisle bizliner completion business, has opened a new three-story, 146,000-sq-ft completion and refu
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Snooze While You Cruise with JetBed

When Gary Bosstick, a frequent charter client, became dissatisfied with the sleeping comfort of the typical business jet seat, he did what any entrepreneur
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Hawker Beech unveils 450XP, King Air 350i

Hawker Beechcraft took the wraps off the Hawker 450XP and King Air 350i last month.
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Innotech Installs BPS on Global Expresses

Under a partnership agreement signed with Air Data, Innotech Aviation’s Montreal completion center will install Air Data JetAir bio-protection systems (BPS
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International Jet Interiors Inks Deal with Eclipse

International Jet Interiors, an independent completion and refurbishment center in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., has signed a major service agreement with Eclipse Avia