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

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
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Precision Pattern Teams with Appearance Group

Precision Pattern, a Wichita-based specialist in aircraft interior cabinetry and finish, has signed an agreement with Appearance Group to provide after-mar
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Texas Aviation Delivers ‘Studio in the Sky’

Texas Aviation Services is no stranger to unusual helicopter interiors, but the Eurocopter AS 350B2 for Hangar 5 Productions of Scottsdale, Ariz., stretche
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Perrone Aerospace Chooses Waterjet Cutting

Perrone Aerospace, a Fultonville, N.Y.-based provider of leather and textiles, has been expanding its capabilities, adding the first laser-guided, water-je
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ExecuJet Aviation To Expand Completions Activity

To mark three years of handling aircraft interior design and completion, ExecuJet Aviation Group is broadening its capabilities by moving into bizliner exe
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School To Train Executive Interiors Specialists

AIC, the Aircraft Institute for Craftsmen, is scheduled to open its doors next spring to train executive interiors specialists.
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Savannah expands to accommodate green completions

Savannah Air Center (Booth No.
Aircraft

Cessna To Offer JetBed as an Option

JetBed (Booth No.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

True North lands Sikorsky

Sikorsky Aircraft has selected TrueNorth Avionics’ Simphone airborne telephone systems as OEM standard options on new S-76 series and S-92 helicopters.
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Latest Technology Preserves Leather

Zenda Leather (Booth No.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Midcoast Opens Narrowbody Hangar

Midcoast Aviation, with an eye to the burgeoning narrowbody aircraft completion business, opened a new, three-story 146,000-sq-ft narrowbody completion and
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TrueNorth expands broadband options

TrueNorth Avionics (Booth No.
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Satcom Direct expands U.S. service plan

Airborne communications provider Satcom Direct (Booth No.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Lufthansa ‘niceview’ update features 3-D moving map

Lufthansa Technik’s latest innovation in cabin “infotainment” is called niceview, an upgrade that takes the venerable moving-map display into a new dimensi
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Comlux’s U.S. division adds completion firm

Comlux announced the formation of Comlux America and the acquisition by that entity of independent completion and refurbishment specialist Indianapolis Jet
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Competitors team up on satcom services

Satcom Direct, which had been competing with Honeywell International’s OneLink, announced that it has officially signed a contract Saturday to work in coop
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Fischer + Entwicklungen Offers New Crew Seats

Fischer + Entwicklungen (F+E) has introduced a crew seat, the Model 225/355, which is certified to FAR Part 25 and TSO C127a and provides an adjustable lum
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German interiors firm expands capacity abroad

Lufthansa Technik, one of the world’s largest centers for interior completion and refurbishment of narrow- and widebody aircraft is expanding in a move des
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Jet Aviation Takes Orders for A350-900 XWB Interiors

Jet Aviation recently signed two letters of intent with customers for the interior completion of two Airbus A350-900 XWB (extra-widebody) executive/VIP jet
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Gore Design Picked for Green BBJ Completion

Few segments of the completion and refurbishment industry are as busy as that of narrowbody and widebody cabin finish work, and Gore Design Completions (Bo
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Leather Goes Wild at Edelman

Edelman Leather (Booth No.
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Portable JetBed promises in-flight sleeping comfort

Looking for something more comfortable for a nap, or perhaps a more substantial snooze, than a reclining seat? JetBed of Downers Grove, Ill.
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Piaggio to double Avanti production

Italy’s Piaggio Aero has introduced a third cabin choice for its six- to seven-seat Avanti II twin-turboprop, and expects to almost double production this
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Seagil Demos bart management software

Atlanta-based SeaGil Software, a developer of aviation software since 1985, is demonstrating various features of its BART aviation management software at B
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Customers can outsource their coffee water

The new Hi-Fly “t” series of espresso and coffee makers by Iacobucci HF Electronics S.p.A., enables brewers to connect their own external source of water r
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Completions and refurbishment

If there are any tears being shed by those in the completion and refurbishment industry these days, they’re most likely tears of joy.
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Mideast expo puts spotlight on interiors

Gulf VIP, an event for the Middle East’s ultra-rich that promotes executive jet interiors to the “the lucrative markets of Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia”
Cabin Interior and Electronics

DeCrane outfits the whole interior

DeCrane Aerospace was founded 19 years ago by Jack DeCrane with the idea of assembling under a single umbrella all aspects of aircraft interior completion
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DeCrane Is For Sale…For the Right Price

Since late 2006 DeCrane Aerospace has undergone an internal restructuring that included a name change, a headquarters relocation, a shift in marketing stra
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BAe revives former airliners as corporate jet alternative

With a three-foot wider interior than the Bombardier Challenger 604, the Avro 146/RJ is claimed to offer “an airliner-size cabin for the price of a small b