While today’s business aircraft owners may be more budget conscious with the back of the airplane, they appear to be a little more generous with the cockpit. “We are getting more requests now for ADVIZ, a digital flightdeck retrofit with application to all of our legacy [out of production] Citations,” reports Cessna’s Stan Younger. Developed in cooperation with Innovative Solutions and Support of Exton, Penn., ADVIZ will replace the older Citations’ analog avionics under a just-completed Cessna-owned STC on a Citation V.

Until the rash of accidents in 2008 involving EMS operators, the overall number of helicopter accidents had been declining.

As with the airlines, corporate flight departments want to minimize maintenance down time. For the OEMs, that mandates new approaches to parts support.