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Our Commitment To You

We are a team of exceptionally skilled and dedicated aerospace professionals providing high-level technical expertise to aircraft owners and operators to properly maintain and modify their aircraft.

As an authorized service center and dealer for all major avionics manufacturers, we provide a wide range of solutions for the best selection of options possible keeping legacy aircraft modern and safe.   

We strongly advocate for our client’s best interests with large manufacturers involving very complex and expensive decision-making requirements providing a great value from our relationship. 

Our solutions focused team contributes decades of experience, integrity, and resourcefulness to enable our clients to succeed in complicated & demanding aircraft modification projects.

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TESTIMONIALS
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"Over our long-standing professional relationship, you have never failed to amaze me. Once again you bailed me out with your ability to solve the problem. I can’t instill in a written note the

appreciation for your efforts to pull together the resources to a.) deal with Honeywell to get the

parts expedited, b.) find the time and space in your schedule to squeeze us in, and c.) for doing

the job quickly and professionally.  Your response time and extra efforts transformed our flight department from having one aircraft “AOG” to “Returned to Service” in time to complete our schedule without missing a single flight." ~Nick P. 


BLOGS

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By Rick Ochs 03 Apr, 2023
What's In a Name?
Avionics Panel
By Rick Ochs 19 Jan, 2023
Avionics, by design, are built with follow-on technical & parts support to allow for decades of service past their born-on date. This is a practice driven mainly by aircraft manufacturers demanding comprehensive product support services for their airline customers.
Aircraft in hangar
By Jessica Power 30 Nov, 2022
The way Rick Ochs sees it, there are lots of advantages to being a relatively small avionics company serving business aircraft owners and operators. For starters, there’s the ability of his company—Spirit Aeronautics—to provide customers with personalized services and solutions tailored to their needs.
Avionics Parts Obsolescence
By Rick Ochs 16 May, 2022
Parts obsolescence is a significant challenge for anything built that remains in operation long after the product's manufacture & support has expired. Aircraft system life cycles are much longer than technology life cycles in the aerospace industry. Airframe designs survive many decades relatively unchanged, while onboard electronics become obsolete much faster.
Flight Operations Quality Assurance
By Rick Ochs 21 Jan, 2021
Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) is a safety program designed to make aviation safer by allowing aircraft operators, pilots, maintenance crews and engineers to share and analyze de-identified aggregated information as downloaded from the existing Digital Flight Data Recorder (FDR) installed on many aircraft. FOQA analysis provides deep access to rich flight data of aircraft operational and health information and presenting it in an easy-to-understand format. This well-organized information allows users to identify flights and procedures that require further review. Aircraft operators get instant access to past and current flight data enabling detailed reports while identifying trends.
FAA STCs, ADS-B, Certification, Business Aircraft, NexGen
By Rick Ochs 29 Jul, 2020
The problem has always been, this pairing specification is highly defined and is now locked in state due to product part numbers tied to the STC by the FAA thru its approval of the ADS-B installation via an STC.
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