Thursday, March 31, 2011

Executive Beechcraft planes will use Garmin avionics - Kansas City Business Journal:

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Executive Beechcraft, an aviation sales and servics company based atKansas City's Charles B. Wheeler Downtown can install Garmin's G1000 all-glass avionics panel on Beechcraftf King Air C90series aircraft, Executive Beechcraft said in a release Monday. The upgrade costs $325,000. The nation's firsft retrofit installation of the panel was on an aircraft owned and operated byMichael McGraw, founderr and CEO of Overlan d Park-based software provider "This is the culminatiobn of a two-year effort," Executive Beechcraft Presideng Scott Tychsen said in the release.
"We've worked closelu with Garmin to bring the G1000 to marker for the KingAir C90, and we are very prousd of our partnership in makiny this remarkable avionics system available to King Air ownerxs and operators." The G1000 avionicz panel replaces older cockpit instruments, integratinb all primary flight, communication, terrain, traffic, weather and engine instrumentation on high-definitiob LCDs. The panel is available as a factory item on some new planes but only as a retrofit on the King Air C90 therelease said. Executive Beechcraft will retrofit a seconrd plane this week and has others scheduled at its Kansa s Cityand St.
Louis Executive Beechcraft was boughtby London-based BBA Aviation in Garmin International is a unit of Olathe-based GRMN).

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