Florida-based hushkit manufacturer AvAero has won an order from Airtran Airways of Orlando to supply five Boeing 737 hushkit shipsets.

The order, which also includes options on four more shipsets, includes the replacement of a Nordam-made hushkit with the AvAero system on the first aircraft.

"They wanted to do it for fuel burn reasons," says AvAero marketing and sales senior vice-president Bob Finn. AvAero has now either sold or holds firm orders for 35 hushkit sets, plus 34 options.

Source: Flight International