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.

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Indianapolis Jet Center OK’d for CRJ conversion

Indianapolis Jet Center (Booth No.
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BBJ projects stack up at Greenpoint

Greenpoint Technologies, like most of the narrowbody and widebody completion centers, is dealing with growing demand.
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Gore Wins Head-of-State 767 Contract

Gore Design Completions (Booth No.
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Upgraded IFE from Vision Systems

French cabin products manufacturer Vision Systems Aeronautics (Booth No.
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Arinc’s Oi serves up onboard Web content

Arinc (Booth No.
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Mid Continent serves up cabin entertainment unit

Mid Continent Controls of Derby, Kans., a manufacturer of cabin management and in-flight entertainment system controls, is showcasing a new media server fo
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Yankee Pacific gaining traction

Completions group Yankee Pacific Aerospace of Rye, N.H., is celebrating just its second anniversary, but that hasn’t stopped the company from contemplating
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Flying Colours Wins Green Challenger 850 Contract

Fast on the heels of its first CRJ200 conversion to an executive/VIP Execliner configuration, Canadian independent completion and refurbishment specialist
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BAE converts RJs for bizav

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft this year will deliver six more of its corporate-configured, four-engine Avro RJs for a variety of business and government op
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UK firm weaves around natural-fiber difficulties

There’s usually more than a little one-upmanship to business aircraft interiors.
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Avionics Update: Sirius satellite radio reaches for the sky

As anyone who has it or has tried it can attest, satellite radio is seriously cool.
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UK firm planning line of upgraded cabin products

IEC In-Flight Systems plans to introduce a  digital cabin management system (CMS) for business aircraft.
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BMW designing interiors for PC-12s

Pilatus Aircraft of Broomfield, Colo., has commissioned BMW DesignWorks USA of Southern California to develop nine identically priced interior designs for
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Nordam Takes On Cabinetry for Falcon 7X

Dassault Falcon Jet selected the Nordam Group to manufacture cabinetry for the Falcon 7X.
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AvFab Receives Divan STC Approval

Clinton, Mo.-based Aviation Fabricators (AvFab) has received STC approval for its one-, two- and three-place side-facing divans on the Cessna 441 Conquest
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Fire at Berry Aviation destroys Do328-100

A flash fire in the hangar at Berry Aviation in Austin, Texas, on the morning of June 27 destroyed a 30-passenger Dornier 328-100 turboprop that was underg
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Business jets: It's what's in the cabin that counts

“I want what I want, when I want it.” It sounds like the petulant voice of a pampered diva, or a corporate executive with delusions of grandeur.
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Kit cabins offered as way to reduce cost

Completion and refurbishment centers are in a constant search for more efficient ways to work.
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CIS interior shops seek Western market

A little more than a decade after perestroika, interior completion and refurbishment companies in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are flexing
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CIS completion and refurbishment shops

AKKO has been in business more than a decade and is based at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport.
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Savannah Air growing in the face of recession

During the current economic climate, when many completion and refurbishment centers are struggling–some merely to survive–Savannah Air Center appears to be
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Yingling Aviation shop launches Caravan cabin

Cessna’s workhorse turboprop single Caravan has appeared in just about as many guises as the X-Men, and with some of the same versatility.
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Bombardier's Learjet 40 off to the races

Earlier this year Bombardier introduced an Indy 500 interior package for its new Learjet 40, at a cost of about $150,000.
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GM Nameplate introduces new metal art process

GM Nameplate of Seattle is offering a new “ElectraGraphics Business Jet Art” line that employs 14-karat gold or chrome on a stainless-steel background to r
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Leather care and restoration service launched

Townsend Leather and The Leather Institute of Johnstown, N.Y., have entered into a licensing agreement with aircraft detailing specialist Appearance Group
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Marshall Aerospace shifts focus

Marshall Aerospace, in response to what it described as “the changing nature of the corporate market,” has restructured its corporate aviation activity by
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Burnet Interiors: One cabin to go, please

Burnet Interiors of Geneva has a unique approach to aircraft interiors.
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Jet Aviation refurbs its own DC-8-72 for charter

Jet Aviation in late December finished the interior refurbishment of its own DC-8-72 at its Basel, Switzerland facility.
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Custom cupholderes launches luxury line

Custom Cupholders of North East, Md., has introduced a new line of cupholders designed specifically for the luxury market, including business aircraft.