Duncan Aviation Sees Strong Interest in its Glass Box Project

October 15, 2006

LINCOLN, NEBR. — Duncan Aviation's Glass Box Project has continued to expand its reach throughout 2006 with solution certifications for Falcon 50s, Challenger 600s/601-1As, Falcon 900s, Astras, Hawker 800/800XPO/1000s and Gulfstreams. The company expects to soon be working on a Challenger 601-3A/3R installation.

Introduced in 2004, Duncan Aviation's Glass Box Project is a focused effort to make available the latest in emerging flat-panel retrofit technology. Reduced downtimes, risk and investment are being delivered with thorough preplanning with customers, the FAA, avionics and airframe OEMs and Duncan Aviation's in-house engineering team. With 26 retrofits on six different platforms already completed and three more projects in work, Duncan Aviation is leading AMLCD (Active Matrix, Liquid Crystal Display) avionics retrofit movement into multiple airframes with the systems from leading equipment manfacturers.

"There is a great deal of momentum in the market toward Glass Box retrofits. The benefits of increased safety, reduced pilot workload and increased aircraft value are really hitting home with pilots and owners," says Steve Elofson, Duncan Aviation Avionics Sales Manager. The new displays are capable of displaying all the established avionics imagery such as TCAS, TAWS, Radar and Navigation along with the new latest and greatest features like Jeppeson charts, Nexrad weather, infrared Enhanced Vision Systems and others, he explains.

Duncan Aviation's current Glass Box Project offerings are:

• Falcon 50 with Collins Proline 21
• Falcon 900 with Honeywell EPIC CDS/R
• Challenger 600 / 601-1A with Universal EFI-890
• Astra with Collins Proline 21 IDS
• Hawker 800 / 800XP / 1000 with Honeywell EPIC CDS/R
• Hawker 800XP with Collins IFIS
• Gulfstream III with Honeywell Epic CDS/R
• King Air 300 with Universal's EFI-890
• Hawker/Challenger/Gulfstream with Collins FDS 2000

Duncan Aviation is also gearing up to begin work on certification of the Honeywell EPIC CDS/R in a Challenger 601-3A/3R.

Duncan Aviation currently employs nearly 1,900 aviation experts worldwide. The company has two major service centers located in Lincoln, Neb., and Battle Creek, Mich. Other Duncan Aviation locations include 21 satellite avionics facilities located throughout the United States and Lincoln-based Parts Support Services, a division that sells and consigns general aviation parts to aircraft operators and service organizations worldwide.

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