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Aspen Avionics' Evolution E5

A random shop survey to glean the experimental market's next opportunity

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RIGHT: Looking to increase
the capabilities of its
six-pack steam-gauge panel,
the owner of this 2005 Van's
RV-10 turned to Aerotronics of
Billings, Montana.
ABOVE: Instead of cutting,
pasting, and patching the
latest Garmin system into the
airplane, Aerotronics arranged
all of it in a composite
sculpture of carbon fiber.
Photos courtesy of Aerotronics

ince the Federal Aviation
Administration announced
its ADS-B mandate, it has
been driving an increasing amount of
business to avionics repair stations
nationwide. Now, with roughly a year
left before air traffic control shunts
procrastinating aircraft owners to
the back of the line, the slow but
steady demand for ADS-B has surely
reached a frenzy that likely is leaving
shops and their customers frazzled
and less than happy because their
antipodal desires of time and money
are not fully satisfied.
But like all equipment
requirements and technological
advances that have charted the
course of the avionics industry
since the first tube-based aircraft
electronics first took wing, this
demand will, in time, pass. As the
ADS-B frenzy runs its course,
the question is, what's next? A
contributing key to sustaining any
business is keeping an eye on the
future, to read the tealeaf trends
suggested by current customers to
better focus one's crystal ball.
For the past several years, when
talking to shops about all manner of
stories, among my final questions
is this: What is the next avionics
opportunity, and what are you doing
to prepare for it? The response
from most shops suggests that
they are so focused on the most
pressing demands of the day that
they haven't taken time to consider
tomorrow. "Danged if I know," they'd
say. "If you find out, let me know."

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n the timeline of turbine-powered business
of JetNetIQ, at the NBAA conference. The remaining
aircraft, whether they are Part 23 turboprops like
two-thirds, however, have created "a ginormous wave"
the King Air or Part 25 turbofans that sing as
of avionics demand never before seen in the industry,
duos or trios, the ADS-B deadline
said Conrad Theisen, avionics sales
will be an event that shapes the
manager for Elliott Aviation.
future of this marketplace.
The wave is cresting now for
HOW LONG IT TAKES
Earlier this year, at an NBAA
a number of reasons, and one of
Aircraft Finance, Registration, and
them is the fact that most business
TO TRANSITION FROM
Legal Conference in Fort Myers,
aircraft operators have long,
ADS-B TO WHAT'S
Florida, Jay Mesinger of Mesinger
incorporated decision-making chains
NEXT DEPENDS ON THE
Jet Sales called the mandate
not known for speedy resolutions,
OPERATOR'S DECISION
deadline "a significant reckoning in
especially when considering
TO EITHER UPGRADE
the preowned business jet market
expensive upgrades. When it comes
OR RETIRE THEIR
due to obsolescence."
to avionics for turbine-powered
Nearly half the population of
aircraft, said Theisen, there's very
BUSINESS AIRCRAFT.
preowned business jets is more
little difference between Part 23
than 20 years old, he noted. This
turboprops and Part 25 business
puts them in a league with their
jets. Upgrading the integrated
smaller, middle-aged piston cousins, where almost any
systems they employ requires more engineering and
avionics upgrade would be a significant portion of the
testing to certify.
aircraft's total value.
With ADS-B demand stretching the capabilities of
Maybe that's why 13,425 business jets - one-third
avionics repair stations to satisfy it, the nationwide result
of the in-service fleet - did not have ADS-B upgrade
has not been pretty, Theisen said. "Everyone is growing
plans, according to Dolland Vincent, managing director
their shops to meet the demand," and with the shortage

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Photo courtesy of Chicago Jet Group
With OEMs sunsetting their support of decades-old CRT business aircraft panels, Chicago Jet Group is developing STCs that graft a 21st century, satellitebased brain with active-matrix liquid crystal displays to a legacy avionics nervous system. .

of knowledgeable, experienced technicians, the people
with more knowledge "are just getting beat up."
With a year to go, "everyone has their checkbooks open,"
he continued, and with the unbalanced supply and demand,
aircraft operators are competing with preowned business
aircraft brokers for head-of-the-line privileges at avionics
repair stations nationwide.
"Shops will still be dealing with ADS-B for more than a
year after the mandate deadline" of Dec. 31, 2019, said
Steve Elofson, senior avionics sales rep at Duncan Aviation.
"We saw that after the last big mandates for RVSM and
TAWS. Not everyone made the date, and upgrade projects

were ongoing for a year or so after the deadline."
How long it takes to transition from ADS-B to what's
next depends on the operator's decision to either
upgrade or retire their business aircraft. Until then,
the market "will be in flux until they get it sorted out."
Elofson doesn't expect it to fluctuate for too long.
Owners who need ADS-B, "will be compliant within a
year, if they can find a shop with an opening," he said.
"We'll see how it plays out; the ability of our industry to
step up to the challenge sometimes surprises me."

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