WICHITA, Kan., 27 May 2012. General aviation specialist Hawker Beechcraft Corp. in Wichita, Kan., has begun upgrading avionics in the company's King Air twin-engine turboprop aircraft with the Garmin ...

VERO BEACH, Fla., 10 March 2013. General aviation aircraft manufacturer Piper Aircraft Inc. in Vero Beach, Fla., is one of the first aviation companies to adopt the Garmin G1000 software supporting a ...

Garmin International has achieved certification of its G1000 NXi integrated flight deck for Embraer Phenom 100 business jets that are equipped with the Prodigy flight deck. Originally targeted for ...

Garmin has announced the addition of five aircraft eligible for its G1000 NXi integrated flight deck upgrade. Aircraft currently equipped with a WAAS G1000 integrated flight deck that are now eligible ...

New Piper Seminoles delivered later this year will be outfitted with Garmin’s G1000 glass cockpit following the recent certification of the avionics suite on the twin-engine airplane. With this latest ...

Cessna Aircraft won FAA certification for the T206H Turbo Stationair equipped with a Garmin G1000 cockpit. The G1000 integrates primary flight, navigation, communication, terrain, traffic, weather and ...

Last month, Textron Aviation mated the wings to the fuselage of the first Cessna SkyCourier twin utility turboprop prototype aircraft, which has a Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite adapted for the ...

“As the popularity and demand of the G1000 NXi continues to grow, we’re excited to expand the availability of this upgrade to even more aircraft,” said Carl Wolf, vice president of aviation sales and ...

Airline Transport Professionals (ATP) last week received the first of 16 new glass-cockpit, G1000-equipped DA40 Diamond Stars to be used exclusively in ATP's new Direct Track extension of the Airline ...

An anticipated glass cockpit with no autopilot debuted last week on Quartz Mountain Aerospace's 11E four-seat piston, and Garmin expects its new G950 to be welcomed by other manufacturers as a step ...

Piper Aircraft's M350 and M500 models now feature Garmin's updated G1000 NXi avionics suite, with an STC retrofit option for existing G1000-equipped Matrix and Meridian aircraft. The G1000 NXi system ...

A 2010 NTSB study concluded that glass cockpits have not yet resulted in the anticipated safety improvements compared to conventional instruments, and in some scenarios, showed a higher incidence of ...