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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First executive A380 has palace potential
For the better part of a year, Airbus has been referring to the executive version of its A380 as the Flying Palace, so it seemed appropriate that the first
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AMAC Aerospace Set To Open in August
AMAC Aerospace is preparing to open as a new completions, refurbishment and maintenance provider for business aircraft in August.
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Airbus Launches Communications Services Business
Hoping to cash in on new types of airborne communications capabilities, Airbus has combined forces with SITA and Tenzing to form an in-flight service calle
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LHT’s Airtrack map program offers pax a pilot’s-eye view
Lufthansa Technik has completed the first installation of an unconventional moving-map system on an Air Berlin Boeing 737 and expects to carry out the firs
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Nawtie, Not Nice
Cabin systems supplier Intheairnet is out to prove that it can be both naughty and nice with the introduction last month of the Network and Wireless Techno
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Free look-see for low-cost e-mail aloft
For corporate aircraft passengers whose airborne Internet ambitions don’t extend beyond retrieving and sending e-mail, ASI, a small Australian communicatio
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Competitors Combine Forces in Tucson
In a city that already had two interior completion and refurbishment centers, one more might have been one too many.
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Jet Aviation on Schedule To Deliver Airbus A320
Jet Aviation in Basel, Switzerland, is well under way on an executive/VIP Airbus A320 interior it expects to deliver in July to a first-time customer.
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MacCarthy Interiors Completes First S-92
MacCarthy Interiors in Surrey, England, has delivered its first Sikorsky S-92 with an executive interior.
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Yingling Looks beyond Caravan Completion Work
Yingling Aviation recently opened a new 15,500-sq-ft facility that will include 12,000 sq ft of hangar space in addition to a customer spec room, shops and
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Phazar Getting Bigger To Take on Bigger Projects
Phazar Flight Support at Meacham nternational Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, is expanding.
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Cabflex gets the green light
Cabin electronics specialist Intheairnet, based in Irvine, Calif., is reportedly close to signing its first business jet customer for the new Cabflex cabin
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Midcoast Offers the BlackBerry Connection
Midcoast Aviation in East Cahokia, Ill., is offering customers BlackBerry connectivity.
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Lufthansa Technik Cabin System Picked for Challenger 300
German interiors specialist Lufthansa Technik will be providing its network integrated cabin equipment (Nice) system to Bombardier as standard equipment on
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Out With the Old, In With the New
Elliott Aviation recently completed its first transformation of a Hawker 700A cabin
into an 800XP equivalent.
into an 800XP equivalent.
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Alto Aviation Wins Audio Contract for Legacy 600s
Embraer Executive Aircraft has selected Alto Aviation of Leominster, Mass., as the baseline cabin entertainment audio system for all the Brazilian manufact
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B/E Offers an Executive Seat Designed for Bliss
B/E Aerospace has begun deliveries of its new UltimateComfort executive seat with adjustments ranging from “comfortable” to “bliss.” The Miami-based compan
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Coming To America: An Aircraft Interiors Show
Reed Exhibitions’ Aircraft Interiors Expo team is launching a new event for the Americas.
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Versace Executive Seat Fits Bizliner
In collaboration with TAG Aircraft Interiors, Italian design house Gianni Versace of Milan continues to move into the business aviation cabin.
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Arinc Direct Expands Broadband Service
Arinc Direct customers will soon be discovering new horizons.
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Steecon Offers Swinging Door
Steecon Enterprises has developed a bulkhead swinging door.
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AirCell Axxess Satcom Gets EASA OK for Challengers
AirCell has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its Axxess EZ satcom system on Bombardier’s Challenger 600, 601 and 604.
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Lufthansa Technik Wins First 747-8 Completion Order
Lufthansa Technik has won a contract to do the first interior for an executive version of Boeing’s new 747-8.
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Millennium Gets Kodiak Interiors Order
Interiors development and certification specialist Millennium Concepts of Wichita has received an order from Quest Aircraft for follow-on production interi
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Down the Aisle…
BaySys Technologies in Accomac, Va., has been contracted to build and install an executive interior in a green Airbus A340-200 for a Middle Eastern custome
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Brilliance marks CareJet treatment
An exterior paint job on a Gulfstream G550 will typically cost in the neighborhood of $150,000 and, with proper care and maintenance, will last about five
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Executive conversions breathe new life into aging CRJ200s
In an industry faced with escalating prices and increasingly long lead times for aircraft deliveries, Project Phoenix has joined a growing number of compan
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Weak Dollar Prompts Price Hike at IWG
International Water-Guard Industries (IWG) is “adjusting its pricing and business policies in response to the unprecedented shift in exchange rates between
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A King Air cabin with a Brazilian touch
Opened for business a little less than two years ago, interior refurbishment specialist Interiors by Brazil has introduced a King Air 90 cabin that has clo
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Inmarsat I4 Satellites Will Be Six Times Faster
Inmarsat, the global satellite-communications company, is preparing the next generation of its geostationary satellites, which a spokesman said will be far
