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Cabin Outfitting Industry Showing Signs of Recovery Cally a List of Interior Centers Approved by the Aircraft Manufacturer A Boeing 787 cabin proposal by Gore Design Completions of San Antonio, Texas, stretches the design envelope. In this report: • Electronics Briefs Pg 21, 22, 24, 26 • Startups Signal Growing Comp & Refurb Demand Pg 26 • Comp & Refurb Briefs Pg 28, 30, 31 • GAL Aviation Launches Operations Pg 32 • Lufthansa Innovations Pg 33 • Pats Emerging On Its Own Pg 33 Web exclusive: • Completion Centers directory www.ainonline.com/ resource center GDC • Vendors directory www.ainonline.com/ resource center president Tom Langeland. This, he added, is especially true of larger bizlin- ers for which the only guidance is typi- Cabin outfitting industry showing signs of recovery cally a list of interior centers approved by the aircraft manufacturer. In Singapore, ST Aerospace is a major by Kirby J. Harrison MRO facility that also has the capacity to handle interior outfitting for aircraft up There are growing signs that business charter arm. The first three will be based that includes a broad range of comple- through an Airbus A330 or Boeing 747. aviation is entering a recovery period, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, from where they tion and refurbishment project super- Like the OEMs and completion and and reports from the completion and will provide nonstop service to Beijing, visory and management services. More refurbishment centers, cabin designers refurbishment side of the house suggest among other destinations. telling, the company has also opened recognize the potential of the China that cabin outfitting is also shaking off Flying Colours is more than happy with the new office in Xiamen, China, not far market and are designing cabins that the effects of a prolonged recession. the Chinese market. The Peterborough, from the (similarly named but different) appeal to regional tastes. Major analysts–JPMorgan, UBS, Ontario-based completion and refurbish- Taeco aircraft heavy maintenance facility, Earlier this year, Airbus announced Argus, JetNet and Avinode–are taking ment center specializes in Challenger 850 which recently expanded to include cabin its Phoenix cabin concept, with a color positive if tentative positions, reporting green completions and Canadair CRJ200 completion and refurbishment. scheme and layout that will appeal to a reduction in the used aircraft for-sale reconfigurations for executive use. Flying “A lot of Chinese buyers are start- the Asian sense of aesthetics. Taeco is inventory and increases in flight activity. Colours and its Chesterfield, Mo.-based ing at ground zero when it comes among the cabin outfitters that Airbus And at the European Business Aviation sister company, JetCorp, have already to outfitting the cabin,” said Talco has approved and audited. Convention & Exhibition (Ebace) in May, delivered two completed 850s to China the good mood that permeated the open- and expect to deliver five more in China ing was even better as the show closed. and another in India by the end of next Nine-digit jet deals were again in year. “We have three more scheduled for vogue at Ebace. Most were for large- 2012 delivery, and we’re negotiating for cabin aircraft, but there were orders for more,” said director of completion sales midsize and smaller airplanes as well. and management Sean Gillespie. And there was plenty of proof that a “Our Chinese customers like the large growing market outside North Amer- cabin, a range that will take them nonstop ica and Europe–primarily Brazil, Russia, to most destinations in China, and a price India and China–is a trend with legs. in the $26 million range,” he explained. “In 2011, the European market is still active,” said Richard Gaona, CEO of China Poised To Become Comlux The Aviation Group, a Zurich- the Next Big Market based aviation services company that Bombardier estimates the China mar- counts among its subsidiaries Indianap- ket potential at some 600 business jet olis-based completion and refurbish- deliveries between 2010 and 2019, and ment specialist Comlux America. And he Brazilian OEM Embraer rates it at about added, “The Chinese market is growing 950 deliveries over the next 20 years. All and the Middle East seems to be recover- that activity spells work for the world’s ing despite the turmoil there.” completion and refurbishment centers. Comlux recently placed an order for Talco Aviation and DRB Aviation An Airbus A318 Elite, similar to that above outfitted by Comlux America, will make an appearance next month seven Embraer Legacy 650s for its own recently formed a “strategic partnership” at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil. 20 Aviation International News • July 2011 • www.ainonline.com At the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany, in April, AirJet Electronics Briefs Designs of Toulouse, France, unveiled two luxury interior renderings reflecting the Asian aesthetic. The proposals–Art If there is one single word that describes this brave de Vivre and Xin Ge–are influenced by new world, it is “connected.” We are all connected, French, Italian and Chinese design styles. tied to one another and the world at large by smart- Associated Air Center in Dallas is phones, tablets and laptops. We are connected by working on two completion projects for voice and by text, transmitting and receiving at virtu- the same Asian customer, both of which ally every moment of the day. The cellphone rings, or incorporate the 3,000-year-old Chinese chimes an alert to an incoming text and we answer, at principles of Feng Shui. Lufthansa Technik will be provid- the breakfast table, in a meeting, on a date. ing cabin outfitting for a new Boeing There is no place so sacred that we are out of Business Jet destined for corporate ser- touch. Especially not the cabin of a business jet, vice with the new Beijing Airlines. Also 41,000 feet in the air, 2,000 miles from land and hur- on the schedule at the Hamburg-based tling toward the next destination at Mach 0.85. center is completion of an A319 for In this Completion & Refurbishment Special Re- another Asian customer. port, we have compiled a series of news items that il- Widebody Ambitions lustrate in some part what is going on in the world of In fact, centers like Lufthansa Technik cabin electronics–from high-speed Internet to high- that are devoted primarily to the recon- definition entertainment. In the August edition of figuration of single- and twin-aisle air- AIN, the Cabin Electronics Special Report will take liners for executive use made it through the story further and into greater depth. the recession with minimal heartburn. A small number of owners deferred deliv- Embraer Picks ery, but in nowhere near the numbers Honeywell Ovation for New Jets who deferred and even cancelled deliver- A well equipped galley, such as this one in a 328DBJ by 328 Support Services in Germany, is commonplace ies of smaller business jets. on larger business jets, and in particular those designed with extended range capability and those with larger Brazilian OEM Embraer has picked Honey- passenger capacity. Airbus Corporate Jet Centre (ACJC) well’s Ovation Select cabin management saw business slow down “a little bit” last Galzin noted growing interest in cabin and we’re starting to bid on twin-aisle system to equip the newest additions to its line year, but according to head of sales and refurbishment work, in particular during work again,” said Associated president of executive jets–the Legacy 450 and Legacy marketing Bruno Galzin, “We have green the Ebace show. Jack Lawless. “We are also considering 500. In addition to controlling the system’s aircraft to complete into 2012 for sure In the U.S., few centers are as busy partnering on some 747-8I projects. This entertainment and productivity components, [and] we’re starting to fill in 2013,” he as Gore Design Completions in San way we would continue our single-aisle says Honeywell, Ovation Select puts lighting, added. ACJC delivered its eighth outfitted Antonio. In a recently expanded han- work and still support a large project like seats, temperature, galley and window-shade cabin in late May. “And we will deliver four gar, the center is working on three Air- a 747-8I.” cabins this year–maybe even a fifth one.” bus A340s and an A320, a Boeing 777 Lawless said Associated did well in controls at the passengers’ fingertips. The Following the example of other com- and a BBJ3. The most recent delivery 2010, with deliveries of five outfitted air- first ship sets have already been sent to pletion centers, the Toulouse-based was a Boeing 767 in April. The Boeing craft. “We have a healthy backlog and Embraer’s São Jose dos Campos facilities. ACJC has expanded from dedicated 777 and one of the A340s currently in things are going well for us.” First customer deliveries of the Legacy 450 green completion work to include main- the shop are scheduled for delivery this Comlux America in Indianapolis are expected in 2012, with the Legacy 450 tenance checks, engine work and cabin year. “We were so booked over the past is also having a good year, according scheduled for 2013. upgrades and refurbishment. couple of years we didn’t experience any to Gaona. A new A320 completed in In the past, ACJC has focused exclusively downturn,” said co-owner and president Indianapolis was on display at Ebace. on green completion of the Airbus ACJ line Kathy Gore-Walters. A BBJ2 and an A319ACJ are currently TrueNorth Express Means Speed of business jets, but the company is looking Following a restructuring, Associated in the completion process. TrueNorth Avionics has introduced a closely at expanding into larger, twin-aisle Air Center in Dallas is resuming its place In the two years since it opened, the more compact Wi-Fi cabin-networking device, airliner conversions, said Galzin.
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