Duncan Aviation Installs and Updates STC for Honeywell’s EPIC System in GIII

November 17, 2006

Duncan Aviation recently updated the STC for Honeywell's latest Primus EPIC CDS/R version and software. The Glass Box Project has completed three EPIC CDS/R installations this year.

LINCOLN, NEB.—Duncan Aviation recently installed and updated the certification for Honeywell’s Primus EPIC Control Display System/Retrofit (CDS/R) for a Gulfstream GIII. Duncan Aviation, a full-line Honeywell dealer, performed the three-display CDS/R installation and updated the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the latest EPIC version and software. This is the third EPIC CDS/R installation for Duncan Aviation’s Glass Box Project completed this year. Duncan Aviation also offers the EPIC CDS/R solution for the Falcon 900, the Hawker 800/800XP/1000 and the Challenger 601-3A/R.

“Duncan Aviation is offering the EPIC CDS/R as a continuation of our Glass Box Project, a focused program to evaluate, install and certify the best of the emerging flat-panel retrofit technologies in select airframes,” said Gary Harpster, Duncan Aviation Avionics EPIC Sales Leader. “Our Customers are surprised at the low price and minimal downtime required for a major panel changing event."

The EPIC CDS/R is an integrated system featuring large 8 x 10 inch LCD displays, increased situational awareness capability, comprehensive system flexibility and a clear path for upgradeability that will allow for Electronic Charts and Graphical Satellite Weather display within a year. This latest EPIC version retains the existing Autopilot, Air Data Computers, FMS and reliable Pro Line II Radios. The system also provides the benefits of advanced system integration resulting in reduction of weight and parts count. Each Primary Flight Display alone replaces up to ten conventional instruments, resulting in fewer units to maintain.

Duncan Aviation’s Glass Box Project, introduced in 2004, is a focused effort to make available the latest in the 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 our in-house engineering team. With twenty-six retrofits on six different platforms already completed and many more projects in work, Duncan Aviation is leading the AMLCD (Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display) avionics retrofit movement into multiple airframes with systems from leading equipment manufacturers.

Duncan Aviation currently employs nearly 1,900 aviation experts worldwide. The company has two major service centers located in Lincoln, NE, 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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