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package to King Airs and other airframes. Through its
many other partners, Garmin equipment is available via
AML STC for a variety of other aircraft, among them are
these vendors' STCs from:
state and nature of their current avionics stacks.
*
Butler Avionics, the Learjet 20, 30, 60 series.
To meet the FAA mandate, the ADS-B Out package
*
Columbia Avionics, the Citation 550/560/560XL,
needs a broadcast system - the Mode C/UAT combo or
650.
Mode S transponder; and it needs an approved position
*
Elliott Aviation, the Hawker 750, 800A, some
source of some form - and that's a performance-based
models of the 800XP, 850XP, 900XP, 1000;
standard, so multiple options exist.
Beechjet 400A/Hawker 400XP and Premier I/IA;
Of the position-source options, the position source
Cessna XLS/Excel (via G5000 upgrade).
type dominant in ADS-B Out solutions is a GPS engine
*
Gulfstream, with the G150/G200.
using the wide-area augmentation system, or WAAS,
*
JetTech for the Citation 550/560/560XL.
to enhance accuracy. It can be a blind position-data
*
Southeast Aerospace for the Learjet 20 and 30
source or a full-fledged navigator.
series, 55, 55B, 55C; Citation 650;
Few older business jets and
Beechjet 400A/Hawker 400XP;
propjets employ IFR WAAS
Hawker 700A/700B, 800A/800B;
GPS navigators compared to
Beechcraft MU-300, 400; Falcon
those certified to an earlier
MANY AGING
20/50/200/900.
standard - and without WAAS.
Some of these STC'd upgrades
BUSINESS JETS AND
Some of those same businessoffer significant costs savings when
TURBOPROPS FLY IN
turbine aircraft carry older
the existing flight management
THE UNITED STATES'
transponders lacking a flight ID,
system can be retained. And some
or with old RMUs or RTUs that
solutions are geared to work with
BUSINESS-AIRCRAFT
need to be upgraded. Adding
TCAS II systems and provide ADS-B
FLEETS, AND THE EASE
these necessities to the ADS-B
In services wirelessly to the same
OF UPGRADING ANY
upgrade will impact the price of
tablets pilots use for their electronic
OF THEM TO ADS-B
an ADS-B upgrade, pushing it
flight bags.
much higher.
Several FBOs and avionics-heavy
OUT DEPENDS ON THE
For some older jets and
specialty shops can perform upgrades
STATE AND NATURE
turboprops, opting for an
through STCs they hold or can
OF
THEIR CURRENT
upgraded integrated avionics
access.
package offers not only an
Upgrade packages exist for
AVIONICS STACKS.
option to safe weight and reduce
Bombardier 600-series aircraft; for
maintenance, but also a path to
older Learjets; for the ever-popular
securing the ADS-B Out - and In
Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 trijets; and
- upgrade all in the same work
for the Hawker 800XP and 900XP with
package. And some retrofit packages can meet the
the Rockwell Collins integrated panel.
need while modernizing the avionics stack.
In March 2017, Honeywell unveiled a new ADS-B Out
Some examples include:
package for Primus II-equipped Cessna Citation II, III, VI,
Nextant Aerospace, the Cleveland, Ohio, company
VII, V, Ultra, Encore and Excel, as well as the Hawker 700,
specializing in remanufacturing BeechJet 400A older
800 and 800XP aircraft. This update to the Primus package
jets and King Air 90 turboprops, recently unveiled a
preserves the integrity of the integrated avionics system,
new "incremental" upgrade program for the Beech
integrated into certified configuration versus being an add400A/Hawker 400XP airframe. Nextant is offering just
on system independent of the FMS.
the cockpit upgrade to the Rockwell Collins Pro Line
In addition, Aviation Communication & Surveillance
21 as a stand-alone product, for about $500,000. The
Systems, a joint venture of L3 and Thales, debuted a new
full XTi conversion prices out around $3 million, the
Mode S/1090 ES transponder with an integral WAAS
company said.
GPS receiver approved for the mandates by both the U.S.
Garmin offers many upgrade options through STCs
and Europe's air-traffic authorities. While originally ACSS
developed by its many dealers. One includes the
lacked a position source for its two ADS-B-compliant
G5000 as an upgrade STC'd for the BeechJet 400A
transponders, the company fulfilled that need in the NXTthat includes equipment and software for ADS-B Out.
700 transponder and the NXG-900 WAAS GPS and FIS-B
Other STCs exist to retrofit the G1000 NXi integrated
receiver.

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