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ABOVE: Nav-Aids Ltd. is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, near the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, inside a 6,000-square-foot facility for
design, assembly and testing.
BELOW: The company’s unique Piper adaptor uses a three-sided frame to accommodate the probe and an adjustable arm for the static port seal.
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the center hole,” he said. “This is accomplished by use
of our 33410 series that is adapted to provide for many
different sized ports. We have our 21298 series that is
designed to fit a wide range of ‘single-hole’ static ports.
“Many aircraft manufacturers provide anchor nuts in
close proximity to the static ports that can be used for
a very secure connection of the static test adaptor. Our
universal-style SKA series is used when the port is too
small for direct attachment, and no anchor
nuts are available.”
What about unusual circumstances where
obstacles impede on small static holes, or
suction cups don’t work with the paint or
the probe design encumbers attachment?
Nav-Aids Ltd. developed smart solutions
for those situations, too.
“In the case of the Cessna 206, the obstacle
is a raised fence directly
adjacent to a very small
static port,” Gilday
said. “Access to the
port while avoiding the
possibility of drawing
air from between the port
and the aircraft skin posed a
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particular problem. The solution was the development of
a variation of the SKA series that utilizes a bore-sighted
assembly to bypass the fence to seat and seal directly in
and on the port.”
In a recent patented design, Nav-Aids Ltd. created a
test adaptor that uses three of the static vent’s surround
holes as attaching points.
“The fact that the center hole was deemed too small for
conventional adaptors, the lack of anchor nuts, and the
paint finish not being conducive to suction cups led to the
development of this unique adaptor,” Gilday said. “The
three-point mechanism is inserted into the static
port and secured by means of a thumbscrew.
The seal holder is then screwed onto the
jaw assembly for testing. This
technology has since been adapted
for other aircraft as well.”
Even the probes on Piper
aircraft required a unique
solution, resulting in an
adjustable arm that allows
technicians to accommodate
the various ports from
aircraft to aircraft.
“In the past, the ‘shark
fin’ shape of the probe was
accommodated by a molded
rubber adaptor secured
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