Honeywell has teamed with Meggitt Avionics to market jointly an avionics retrofit for the Raytheon King Air C90.
Meggit will provide its Magic electronic flight instrument system (EFIS), while Honeywell will supply the Bendix/King KFC 250 three-axis autopilot plus an optional IHAS 8000 integrated hazard avoidance system and datalink weather service.
The retrofit package is scheduled to be certificated and available by the second quarter of next year. Cost is expected to be $125,000 for the autopilot, flat-panel primary flight and navigation displays and air data/attitude and heading reference system.
The optional IHAS8000 costs just under $63,000, including weather radar and collision avoidance and terrain awareness systems.
Honeywell and Meggitt see a market to retrofit 700 earlier C90 turboprops, and are looking at retrofitting the KFC250/Magic combination into other similar high-value twin-engined aircraft.
Raytheon, meanwhile, will install Goodrich's Skywatch HP collision avoidance system as standard on all 2002 King Air B200s and 350s.
The system has a range of 65km (35nm) and can track aircraft at speeds up to 600kt (1,100km/h), the information appearing on the existing Goodrich Stormscope display.
Meanwhile, in other upgrade news, Garrett Aviation Services has completed the first electronic engine instrument (EEI) installation in a Dassault Falcon 20 re-engined with Honeywell TFE731s.
The EEI consists of three 160mm Universal Avionics liquid-crystal displays: one for engine instruments and fault indicators, one for aircraft systems information, and a navigation display incorporating Universal's terrain awareness and warning system.
Source: Flight International
