Avionics News January 2016 - 34
MeMber Profile AÉRO TEKNIC INC. LOCATION: 4920 Route de l'Aeroport St. Hubert, QC Canada J3Y 8Y9 Aéro Teknic melds passions for technology, flying S T O R Y A B Y C H R I S T I N E t Aéro Teknic, a maintenance and avionics service center in Montreal, Canada, owner and president Pascal Gosselin eyes a Beechcraft Baron 58P sitting in his hangar. In addition to an all-new Garmin glass cockpit, the 10-week Baron project includes new paint, a new interior and an overhaul of the engines. Gosselin wants to get it right. "We're doing a complete retrofit, removing every single old wire," said Gosselin, a pilot with an airline transport pilot's license and more than 2,400 flight hours. "We sent out the electroluminescent panels to an AEA vendor to relabel to reflect the new equipment to be installed. The owner wants the aircraft to be perfect. He has a Bonanza G36 and wants the same paint scheme on his 58. When we're done, it will be the most beautiful Baron 58P." Located at Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport, Aéro Teknic provides maintenance and avionics services for piston aircraft, turboprops and some light business jets. It's an authorized service center for Cirrus and Piper in 34 avionics news * january 2016 K N A U E R the Montreal area and the only factory-authorized Piper service center in all of eastern Canada, according to Gosselin. Aéro Teknic also is an authorized dealer for most major avionics manufacturers, including Garmin, Aspen Avionics, L-3 Aviation Products, Genesys Aerosystems, FreeFlight Systems and Avidyne. Prior to his aviation career, Gosselin started as a dot-com innovator, operating two of the first Internet providers in Canada in the early 1990s. "I sold one of my companies in 1999," Gosselin said. "I was already a pilot and aircraft owner at that time. I thought the logical thing to do was to combine my passion for computers and technology and flying airplanes - avionics was the perfect match. An opportunity presented itself when a small avionics shop closed here at Saint-Hubert Airport. This is a good airport, and it was suddenly left without an avionics shop. It's one of the largest general aviation airports in Canada and the oldest in the country as well as one of the busiest." Gosselin built a hangar and established a maintenance and avionics business with the help of a Transport
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