Cabin Interior and Electronics

Executive conversions breathe new life into aging CRJ200s

December 01, 2007

In an industry faced with escalating prices and increasingly long lead times for aircraft deliveries, Project Phoenix has joined a growing number of companies offering a program to convert Canadair CRJ200 regional jets into executive aircraft.The Montreal-based start-up expects to offer a less expensive and more immediately available large-cabin business...

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Midcoast Offers the BlackBerry Connection

December 01, 2007

Midcoast Aviation in East Cahokia, Ill., is offering customers BlackBerry connectivity. The company, based at St. Louis Downtown Airport, has already installed equipment to allow in-flight BlackBerry use in a Gulfstream IV and two Bombardier Global Expresses. According to Midcoast engineers, the system requires minimal user interaction and “is as simple as...

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Lufthansa Technik Cabin System Picked for Challenger 300

December 01, 2007

German interiors specialist Lufthansa Technik will be providing its network integrated cabin equipment (Nice) system to Bombardier as standard equipment on the Canadian manufacturer’s Challenger 300. Nice is a digital-based cabin-management and entertainment package that includes an iPod docking station to stream the audio output. The digital audio is...

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Out With the Old, In With the New

December 01, 2007

Elliott Aviation recently completed its first transformation of a Hawker 700A cabin into an 800XP equivalent. This project, and subsequent 700A cabin upgrades, is built around a new or rebuilt and refitted cabin shell that is more like that of the 800XP. From there, the cabin can be reconfigured and certain components, such as seats, metal fittings and some...

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Alto Aviation Wins Audio Contract for Legacy 600s

December 01, 2007

Embraer Executive Aircraft has selected Alto Aviation of Leominster, Mass., as the baseline cabin entertainment audio system for all the Brazilian manufacturer’s Legacy 600s. The Alto system includes six mid/high enclosures, three subwoofers and two customized EQ amplifiers and weighs 21.4 pounds. New mid/high-frequency speaker enclosures were designed to...

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B/E Offers an Executive Seat Designed for Bliss

December 01, 2007

B/E Aerospace has begun deliveries of its new UltimateComfort executive seat with adjustments ranging from “comfortable” to “bliss.” The Miami-based company’s business jet group introduced the seat at the NBAA Convention and claims it is the first full-flat berthing accommodation for business aircraft. Designed for midsize through large aircraft, it also...

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Coming To America: An Aircraft Interiors Show

December 01, 2007

Reed Exhibitions’ Aircraft Interiors Expo team is launching a new event for the Americas. The first show–Aircraft Interiors Expo Americas–is scheduled for September 9 through 11 in the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. Concurrent with the event is the new Cabin Innovation Congress, a forum for discussion of cabin concepts and issues that...

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Versace Executive Seat Fits Bizliner

December 01, 2007

In collaboration with TAG Aircraft Interiors, Italian design house Gianni Versace of Milan continues to move into the business aviation cabin. The two companies joined forces in April last year and at the NBAA Convention that year introduced a prototype executive seat. Then at this year’s EBACE, the partnership offered the Versace/TAG-AI catalog of interior...

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Arinc Direct Expands Broadband Service

December 01, 2007

Arinc Direct customers will soon be discovering new horizons. The business division of Annapolis, Md.-based Arinc expects to expand coverage of its Skylink in-flight satellite Ku broadband service to include the Caribbean, the North Atlantic and a “substantial” portion of Central and South America before year-end. Skylink service over North America has been...

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Steecon Offers Swinging Door

December 01, 2007

Steecon Enterprises has developed a bulkhead swinging door. The door is hinged at the top and bottom, and the door frame houses the motorized activation assembly. The door is activated by the push of a button (on the floor or door frame), remains open long enough for the user to pass through and then closes automatically. A resistance disengage switch...

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AirCell Axxess Satcom Gets EASA OK for Challengers

December 01, 2007

AirCell has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its Axxess EZ satcom system on Bombardier’s Challenger 600, 601 and 604. Introduced late last year, the system was designed to reuse the MagnaStar system’s existing aircraft wiring and component locations, reducing installation downtime. It also gives operators the option of...

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Lufthansa Technik Wins First 747-8 Completion Order

December 01, 2007

Lufthansa Technik has won a contract to do the first interior for an executive version of Boeing’s new 747-8. The owner, whose identity has not been disclosed, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hamburg, Germany-based interiors shop early last month. Lufthansa Technik expects the job to require as much as 18 months. This will be the company’s...

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Millennium Gets Kodiak Interiors Order

December 01, 2007

Interiors development and certification specialist Millennium Concepts of Wichita has received an order from Quest Aircraft for follow-on production interiors for the Sandpoint, Idaho company’s Kodiak utility aircraft. Millennium has worked closely with Quest on design, certification and fabrication of components for the Kodiak’s various interior...

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Down the Aisle…

December 01, 2007

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 customer… Fokker Services of Woensdrecht, Netherlands, is at work on the executive cabin of its first Airbus A318 Elite, to be finished in the middle of next year… Innotech Aviation is growing and recently added...

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