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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Texas Aviation Wins Multiple Aircraft Contract

Texas Aviation Services has won “a multiple-aircraft contract” from Rotorcraft Leasing to assess, evaluate and conform Bell 206 JetRangers to Rotorcraft Le
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Field Aviation Wins More Dash Q300 Maritime Jobs

On the heels of a delivery ceremony of the third maritime surveillance aircraft for the Japan Coast Guard, Field Aviation announced a follow-on contract fo
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Airbus Corporate Jet Center Delivers Second Completion

Airbus Corporate Jet Center (ACJC) has delivered its second cabin completion project, an executive A320, destined for an undisclosed customer in the Middle
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LifePort Delivers First Dedicated Medical Helicopter for Offshore Service

Helicopter interiors specialist LifePort of Woodland, Wash., has delivered a Sikorsky S-76 C++ that customer Petroleum Helicopters says will be the first d
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Blu-ray DVD Player Hits the Market

Flight Display Systems of Alpharetta, Ga., said it has started shipping the first Blu-ray DVD player developed specifically for the aircraft cabin.
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BaySys Plans Completion Hangar Large Enough for A380

BaySys International won’t say if it’s lobbying to be the first with an interiors contract for an executive version of the Airbus A380, but the Wallops Isl
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Flying Colours Wins Flight Options Paint Contract

Flying Colours, an Ontario-based independent completion and refurbishment center, has been awarded a contract to manage the aircraft paint scheme refurbish
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Foster+Partners Wins NetJets Europe Interiors Contract

Aircraft fractional shares operator NetJets Europe has recruited Foster+Partners, the firm of Pulitzer prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster, to desig
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Yankee Pacific Merges Interiors Holdings

Yankee Pacific Aerospace, an aerospace investment company, has merged two of its private aircraft interiors holdings, Executive Aircraft Completions of Tul
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International Water-Guard Gets Treatment System OK for Falcons

Supplemental type certificates (STCs) have been issued for installation of International Water-Guard’s IWG-A4 water treatment unit on the Dassault Falcon 2
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Pats’ Refocused Strategy Does Not Include BBJs

According to John Martin, v-p and general manager of the DeCrane Aerospace Pats Aircraft Completion division, the Georgetown, Del.-based center has chosen
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Down the Aisle…

Lufthansa Technik has ordered a Cair cabin humidification control system from CTT Systems of Nykoping, Sweden, for installation this fall as part of an exe
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Audio/video Power Management System Launched

Richard Gray’s Power Company (RGPC) of New Orleans has introduced RGPC ClearSky, “the first power management system designed specifically for audio/video e
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ExecuJet Opens Zurich Interiors Showroom

ExecuJet Aviation Group has opened a new aircraft interiors showroom at its Zurich Airport headquarters.
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Economy Crush Prompts Layoffs at Nordam

Nordam recently laid off 63 employees, primarily from its interiors and structures division, which is responsible–for the most part–for business aviation c
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Gore Design Picks CTT’s Cair Cabin Environment System

Cabin environment continues to become more important as a point of customer focus, particularly on long-haul private jets.
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EMS Technologies To Acquire Avionics Manufacturer Formation

EMS Technologies has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire Moorestown, N.J.-based Formation, a provider of airborne wireless network products that ena
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MAC Wins Polish Presidential Helo Bid

MAC Aircraft Interior Specialists (formerly McCarthy Interiors) has won a $1.75 million contract to design and build quick-change executive interior kits f
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Yankee Pacific Creates New Division

Yankee Pacific Aerospace has merged two of its holdings– Executive Aircraft Completions (EAC) and Cabin Innovations– into a single division called Cabin In
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Special Report: Cabin electronics 2009

This year manufacturers brought to market a number of electronics calculated to bring a smile to the face of even the most jaded business jet owner.
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Regional makeovers find a ready market

at a time when everyone seems to be looking for a bargain, regional jets reconfigured for an executive role–available at considerably less than half the pr
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ICG Gains PMA Approval for NxtLink Systems

International Communications Group of Newport News, Va., has received parts manufacturer authority (PMA) for the NxtLink ICS-120A and ICS-220A communicatio
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Jet Aviation Basel opens Falcon Completion Hangar

Jet Aviation Basel has completed its 35,520-sq-ft hangar 1A extension, an addition that will better accommodate its cabin completion work on green Falcons.
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Project Phoenix CRJs to get MedAire Package

Project Phoenix, launched in 2007 to broker the acquisition and sale of CRJ200 regional jets in an executive configuration, recently announced an agreement
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Dean Aircraft Interiors Snapped Up By Ocean Sky

Ocean Sky, a UK-based executive charter operator rapidly expanding its services,
has acquired Dean Aircraft Interiors.
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Project Phoenix signs Egyptian CRJ200 Customer

Despite sagging economies worldwide, the demand for CRJ200 conversions to executive configuration appears to be gaining momentum.
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First Design Q Avro RJ70 rolls out

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has completed the first Avro RJ70 executive aircraft with the Design Q interior.
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Goderich gets Royal Jet BBJ contracts

Genesis Custom Jetliners, an executive completion and refurbishment broker/agent, has been selected to redesign and upgrade “a number” of Boeing Business J
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Acoustic Package Claimed To Cut Cabin Noise by 30 Percent

A new thermal/acoustic barrier package promises to reduce cabin noise by as much as 30 percent.
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AMAC Opens In Basel with A320 Completion

AMAC Aerospace, launched in July 2007, is ready for business in the first of two new hangars at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, Switzerland.
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