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.

Cabin Interior and Electronics

MRO Profile: Lufthansa Technik

Lufthansa Technik makes its home at the south end of Hamburg International Airport in a neat sprawl of voluminous blue and gray hangars, workshops, researc
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Interior Shop Getting More Room Inside

Savannah Air Center in Savannah, Ga., recently broke ground for a new structure that will house its expanded interior fabrication shop.
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This Is Not To Sit Still For

Corporate aircraft seating specialist Pacific Aircraft Components is developing its first line of 16-g seats and divans.
Regulations and Government

FAA logjam slows approval of COTS cabin components

If it’s “off the shelf” it’s off the list.
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Emteq Takes Cabin Light Beyond White

Cabin lighting specialist Emteq of New Berlin, Wis., took advantage of Aircraft Interiors Expo 2006 to introduce its Quasar full-spectrum mood lighting sys
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Aircraft Interiors Expo

“It’s like opening night on Broadway,” whispered a visitor to the 2006 Aircraft Interiors Expo, as he edged carefully past a showgoer with two bags stuffed
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Lufthansa Sees Future in Standardized Widebody Cabins

Lufthansa Technik, which has contracts with Bombardier for the completion of 17 Challenger 850s over the next several years, has already delivered the firs
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Waypoint Points the Way in Interior Management

Start-up Waypoint Partners of Fort Lauderdale is a new member of the industry, specializing in the monitoring of cabin completion, extensive refurbishment
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Kvand Delivers Fourth Yak-42 VIP Refurbishment

Moscow-based Kvand recently delivered its fourth Yak-42 executive upgrade cabin refurbishment.
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Managing Outside Light Doesn’t Mean You’re a Shady Character

Lou Martin & Associates has introduced what it calls its NT Pleated Shade system as the latest in its line of aircraft window shades.
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Alto Aviation Making Sweet Music

Alto Aviation, with roots at audio giant Bose, is expanding and last month completed a move from its old Sterling, Mass.
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AirCell plans nationwide network for in-flight Wi-Fi

AirCell’s winning bid of $31.319 million for an important segment of the air-to-ground frequency spectrum last month bodes well for business jet operators
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Brisk helo sales boost completions business

If the helicopter industry has been going nowhere fast in recent years, the direction now appears to be up, and shops doing special-mission and corporate h
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Completions outlook good and getting better

It is hard not to get excited,” said General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) president and CEO Pete Bunce in April as he reflected on market acti
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Very Light Jets: Very Nice Cabins

The very light jets (VLJs) are coming.
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Limited-edition cabins evoke flavor of world's cities

One of the major selling points of the business jet seems always to have been the ability to customize and personalize the cabin to fit the customer’s desi
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Associated Air Center Gets DAS Approval

Associated Air Center, a Landmark Aviation company and large aircraft executive/ VIP interiors specialist at Love Field in Dallas, has received FAA designa
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Side Ledge, Pocket Door Upgrades Coming from Aviation Fabricators

Aviation Fabricators of Clinton, Mo., is awaiting supplemental type certificate (STC) approval from the FAA for a new side-ledge kit for older Beech King A
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Emteq Offers New Low-profile LED Lighting

It sheds a new light on things.
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HighTech ‘Finishing’ in the Black

HighTech Finishing announced at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition that last year was its best 12 months since 2001.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Jet Aviation Makes ‘Nice’ in North America

Lufthansa Technik has selected Jet Aviation as the sole North American authorized sales and service outlet for the German completion center’s Nice (network
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Duncan Picks Midwest Aircraft Products for Cabin Components

Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Neb., has signed a new sales and service agreement with Midwest Aircraft Products to provide cabin interior products such as ho
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DeCrane Gets STC for New Executive Seats

DeCrane Aircraft Seating has received STCs from the European Aviation Safety Agency for its new-generation 16-g model 6004 single and model 6005 double exe
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Put a little makeup on that airplane, please

There is no airplane so beautiful that a good paint job won’t help it look even better, maybe a lot better.
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Xzilon Protects the Paint

Extending paint life and preventing corrosion is the aim of Granitize, and liquid-formula Xzilon is the product.
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Midcoast Delivers Its First Global 5000

Midcoast Aviation earlier this year delivered the first Global 5000 to be completed outside Bombardier’s factory completions center in Montreal.
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Gore Gets the Business from Airbus

Gore Design Completions of San Antonio is the second U.S.
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Oxford Aviation Plans Major Expansion and Capabilities Upgrade

Oxford Aviation is planning a major move from Maine’s Oxford County Regional Airport to Sanford Regional Airport, about 50 miles south, where it will open
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A Reading Light or a Scene from War of the Worlds?

There it was at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition, bearing an amazing resemblance to the deadly ray-emitting “eye” of the alien creatu
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Sikorsky Logs S-76D Order from First European Customer

Sikorsky Aircraft this spring announced it has signed position assignment agreements with Premier Aviation Services of Ireland for two executive S-76Ds.