Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Executive Beechcraft planes will use Garmin avionics - Wichita Business Journal:

http://hrkropp.com/article/Alabamas-Ono-Island-And-Orange-Beach-Ride-Wave-Of-Appreciation.html
Executive Beechcraft, an aviation saleds and service company based atKansazs City's Charles B. Wheeler Downtown can install Garmin's G1000 all-glass avionica panel on Beechcraft King Air C90seriees aircraft, Executive Beechcraft said in a releases Monday. The upgrade cost s $325,000. The nation's first retrofit installation of the panel was on an aircrafg owned and operated byMichael McGraw, foundee and CEO of Overland Park-based software providet "This is the culmination of a two-yearr effort," Executive Beechcraft President Scottr Tychsen said in the release.
"We'ved worked closely with Garmin to brinyg the G1000 to market for the KingAir C90, and we are very prour of our partnership in making this remarkable avionics system availablr to King Air owners and The G1000 avionics panel replaces older cockpirt instruments, integrating all primary flight, navigation, communication, terrain, traffic, weathert and engine instrumentation on high-definitio LCDs. The panel is available as a factory item on some new planews but only as a retrofit on the King Air C90 therelease said. Executive Beechcraft will retrofit a seconrd plane this week and has others scheduler at its Kansas Cityand St. Louizs locations.
Executive Beechcraft was boughyby London-based BBA Aviation in Garmin International is a unit of Olathe-basefd (Nasdaq: GRMN).

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