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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Jet Aviation Acquires Savannah Air Center
Swiss-based Jet Aviation Group expanded its U.S.
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Jet Aviation installs lighter and quieter Falcon 50 interior shell kit
As part of a Falcon 50 major cabin refurbishment, Jet Aviation recently completed the first installation of a new linear shell kit designed to transform a
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Elliott’s new completions site beefs up the company résumé
“This facility gives us the ability to triple our capacity here,” said Wynn Elliott, president of Elliott Aviation at Quad City Airport (MLI), Moline, Ill.
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Aircraft Interiors Expo 2003
Despite the worldwide economic slump and the threat of war in Iraq, the fourth annual Aircraft Interiors Expo 2003 opened its doors at Germany’s Hamburg Me
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Gulfstream IV Lighting Gets OK
B/E Aerospace received a PMA for its LED wash lighting for the Gulfstream IV.
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Bizliner Competitions: Big-bizjet conference forecasts strong market
A persistently optimistic outlook was in evidence at the first Large Executive & VIP Aircraft Conference: Opening speaker Arnaud Martin, program direct
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Interior shops claim vendors unconcerned
“They’ve forgotten us,” said Victor Guzman, owner and president of GZM Aircraft Interiors, a small independent completion and refurb shop based at Executiv
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Quest for the quieter cabin
Noise is everywhere–annoying, tiring and sometimes painful.
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Heritage introduces quiet helo cabin ‘cocoon’
To some, helicopters are the essence of noise; to others they make the music of commerce.
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747-8 Completion Is a Big Deal
Lufthansa Technik has signed a contract to do its first cabin completion on an executive version of the new Boeing 747-8.
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A350XWB Will Offer Electrochromic Cabin Windows
Buyers of an executive version of the new Airbus A350XWB will have the option of selecting the electrochromic (or “smart windows”) technology from PPG.
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Gore Chooses Millennium Concepts for Second BBJ
Millennium Concepts of Wichita, a specialist at development and certification of aircraft interiors, has been selected by Gore Design Completions of San An
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Innotech Paints a Pretty Picture
Innotech Aviation of Montreal has begun construction of its new twin-bay aircraft paint facility at Pierre Trudeau International Airport in Dorval.
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Hamburg Interiors Expo Near Capacity
Exhibit space for Aircraft Interiors Expo 2008, held in Hamburg, Germany, “has virtually sold out,” according to event organizer Reed Exhibitions.
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C Jet Taps Airbus for Bizjet Order
Hong Kong aircraft charter and management company C Jet will be looking for completion centers.
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Down the Aisle...
Associated Air Center, a division of Landmark Aviation based in Dallas, delivered its ninth Airbus Corporate Jetliner in November and has four more in back
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Dassault plays 7X completion catchup
Even with a new hangar dedicated to cabin outfitting of its Falcon 7X, French aircraft manufacturer Dassault is not meeting scheduled delivery dates for th
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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.
