Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that its Satellite Avionics Shop in Van Nuys, Calif., has a new manager. Anthony (Rennie) Loniero has accepted the new position and will oversee the avionics activity and installation work at Van Nuys and at the San Diego workaway station.
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Duncan Aviation is giving aviation maintenance students a chance to win a Snap-on Master Series 13-drawer roll cabinet.
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In early August, Duncan Aviation’s market research team ran numbers and found that although the FAA’s deadline for upgrading business aviation aircraft to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is a mere 16 months away, 52% of the aircraft in the industry have yet to comply. Despite the fact that the FAA has frequently reiterated that the deadline, Wednesday, January 1, 2020, is firm, roughly half of the business jet fleet still needs the mandated upgrades.
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Among Duncan Aviation’s clients who have complied with the FAA’s mandate are several dozen Gulfstream G150s and G200s. Duncan Aviation’s skilled avionics technicians have used a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) developed for aircraft with Rockwell Collins Transponders.
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Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that Bryan Davis has accepted the position of Manager of the Dallas, Texas, Satellite Avionics facilities. Opened by Kent Beal on September 11, 1988, Davis will be only the second manager of the Dallas Satellite in its 29-year history.
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Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce it will open a Satellite Avionics Shop in Bedford, Mass., in early August. The shop will be located in the Jet Aviation hangar and has ramp access on the Laurence G Hanscom Field.
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Duncan Aviation is aware, as are most of its European customers, that the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA’s) deadline for upgrading to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is approaching quickly. Owner/operators who need to retrofit their aircraft have until midnight on June 6, 2020, to meet the terms of the mandate. Aircraft must be equipped with a GPS position source (such as a certified WAAS GPS antenna) and a 1090-megahertz Mode S Extended squitter transponder to relay the information to air traffic control (ATC).
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Please join Duncan Aviation in welcoming John Spellmeyer as the company’s new Regional Avionics Sales Manager. Spellmeyer will rely on his extensive knowledge and 40 years of aviation experience to help support Duncan Aviation’s customers in the western United States.
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Duncan Aviation has been busy installing a number of Honeywell Aerospace JetWave hardware systems, allowing customers who fly globally to connect to Inmarsat’s GX (Global Xpress) Ka-band, high-speed broadband service, Jet ConneX. Owner/operators who fly large-cabin aircraft and need worldwide Internet connectivity have faster options with Honeywell’s JetWave and Imarsat’s Ka-band broadband satellite network.
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Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that the company completed installation of the newly released Gogo AVANCE® L3 Wi-Fi system in a Citation 560XLS in January. Duncan Aviation prides itself on staying informed about the best and most technically advanced equipment available for its customers.
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