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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Conversions Bring New Life to Old Regional Jets

Montreal-based Project Phoenix has joined a growing number of companies offering a program to convert used Bombardier CRJ200 regional jets into executive a
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Completion and Refurbishment: King Aerospace Launches Bizliner Program

King Aerospace has launched what it calls the “Ultra VVIP Customization Program,” which will expand the Ardmore, Okla.
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Completion and Refurbishment: Greenpoint Unveils SkyHome 2010

If the question is where to find a home in the sky, Greenpoint Technologies has an answer.
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Completion and Refurbishment: E-A-R’s Noise Treatment Easy On the Ears

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has selected E-A-R Specialty Composites as its partner in developing the cabin thermal/ acoustic package for its ne
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Completion and Refurbishment: Infusion Design–Into the Light

Business aircraft cabin specialist Infusion Design has long preferred a low profile.
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Completion and Refurbishment: Yingling Aviation’s New Oasis Is No Mirage

Yingling Aviation, which has found a ready market among Cessna Caravan owners for its Oasis interior, has unveiled a restyled Oasis, “with no increase in p
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Completion and Refurbishment: Jormac Introduces Bin/Liners for Bizliners

Jormac Aerospace, a Yankee Pacific division, has developed an overhead bin/cabin liner for Boeing 727, 737 and 757 single-aisle aircraft as a solution to s
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Completion and Refurbishment: Zenda Leather Moves from Ground to Air

Zenda Leather, well known among automobile and furniture manufacturers for more than 100 years, is growing wings.
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Completion and Refurbishment: The Hermès Helicopter, a Fusion of Styles

Eurocopter and Hermès, two companies with distinctly different disciplines, have launched an effort that will blend their respective skills and creative ge
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OEMs set sights on lowering cabin altitude

The business aviation industry is on a constant quest to create a more comfortable cabin environment for the traveler, but only in the past several years h
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Westward Ho the Cabins Work

When BaySys Technologies, a completion and refurbishment center, decided to expand last year, the site selected was far from its headquarters in the sleepy
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Completion and Refurbishment: Executive Version of Grob’s Utility Jet

Design of the full-size executive cabin mockup of the Grob SPn midsize “utility jet” shown in September at the NBAA Convention reflected lukewarm response
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Completion and Refurbishment: Airbus Corporate Jetliner Center Ramps Up

The Airbus Corporate Jetliner Center in Toulouse, France, which opened for business in July, has taken in its first two aircraft for cabin outfitting, both
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Completion and Refurbishment: Embraer’s Lineage Mockup on Display

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer took advantage of the NBAA Convention to introduce a full-size, partial-cabin mockup of its Lineage 1000, the execu
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Completion and Refurbishment: NuBax to Passengers: Take a Seat and Relax

NuBax, a seating technology specialist based in the UK, has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with U.S.
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Completion and Refurbishment: Sherwin-Williams Shows True Colors

Sherwin-Williams’ aerospace division has announced development of new color tools created to provide paint scheme designers with a more convenient and accu
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Completion and Refurbishment: King Aerospace Launches Bizliner Program

King Aerospace has launched what it calls the “Ultra VVIP Customization Program,” which will expand the Ardmore, Okla.
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Completion and Refurbishment: Greenpoint Unveils SkyHome 2010

If the question is where to find a home in the sky, Greenpoint Technologies has an answer.
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Bombardier removing Tucson from completions

As part of a major consolidation project that it says will save $25 million a year, Bombardier has embarked on an 18-month project to consolidate all Learj
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Completion Center To Open in Chattanooga

Start-up completion and refurbishment center Air Corporate Services will officially open its doors for business next spring and is already soliciting work.
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SITA predicts personal cellphone use in the cabin is just around the corner

European information technology giant SITA predicts that by 2005 airline passengers will be able to make calls in flight using their personal cellphones.
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Lufthansa Technik Prospering in Fierce Market

Completions of corporate and VIP aircraft were worth $111 million in sales to Lufthansa Technik last year, an increase of 20 percent over the 2001 figure.
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Paint job going up at Dassault Little Rock

Dassault Falcon Jet broke ground on May 27 for a larger and technically enhanced paint shop at its completion center in Little Rock, Ark., Dassault Aviatio
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Clean-water System for Detroit Pistons’ GIV

International Water-Guard Industries of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has signed a contract to install its circulating potable water system on a Gulfs
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Banyan partners with DeCrane on refurbs

Positioning itself to take advantage of an expected economic recovery, Banyan Air Service, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based full-service FBO, has signed a c
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Rockwell Collins Gets Airshow 4000 Moving Map STC

Rockwell Collins has received FAA supplemental type certification and parts manufacturing authority (PMA) for its Airshow 4000 moving-map and flight-inform
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Audio International Introduces Wireless Cabin

Audio International, a division of DeCrane Aircraft, announced the incorporation of an 802.11b wireless cabin access port into its full line of cabin-manag
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Interactive Moving Map Moves to New Level

A “fully interactive” moving map from DeCrane’s Audio International was also introduced at last month’s Aircraft Electronics Association Convention in Las
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Take A Seat, but Not Just Any Seat

Lantal Textiles of Langenthal, Switzerland, and Recaro Aircraft Seating of Schwaebisch Hall, Germany, have combined their respective expertise to create wh
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Honeywell Offers Audio Equalizer for Enhanced Video

Honeywell introduced an enhanced digital audio equalizer for the business jet cabin.