Garmin International, Inc. a unit of Garmin
Ltd., is celebrating the delivery of the one-millionth certified avionics
product from its manufacturing facility in Olathe, Kansas.
The milestone product was a GTX 3000 DO-260B
compliant Mode S Extended Squitter (ES) transponder, which enables ADS-B Out
transmissions and features TCAS II/ACAS II compatibility for a wide range of
business and transport category aircraft.
“Since our inception over 28 years ago, Garmin
has been committed to providing superior products that are known for their
innovation, reliability and intuitive design,” said
Phil Straub,
Garmin executive vice president, managing director of aviation. “This milestone
is a testament to our long-established commitment to making significant
investments in research and development, as well as the hard work and dedication
of thousands of passionate Garmin team members that I have the pleasure of
working with every day.”
“As we celebrate this exciting accomplishment,
I am very proud of how our teams have managed such significant growth while
maintaining the culture of our company as our founders set forth,” said
Carl Wolf,
vice president of aviation marketing and sales. “The breadth and depth of our
certified aviation product line has expanded greatly over the years, allowing us
to develop new markets for Garmin. This incredible milestone doesn’t even
include the hundreds of thousands of portable and other non-certified products
that our customers use every day. On behalf of Garmin, I wish to express my
utmost gratitude to our loyal customers, our dealers and the aircraft
manufacturers all around the globe who have helped us to accomplish such a
tremendous achievement in Garmin’s history.”
In conjunction with innovative advancements
made in general aviation, Garmin continues to broaden its pioneering vision into
the Part 25 business and transport aircraft market. Garmin boasts a number of
retrofit installation approvals in a variety of aircraft that span from the King
Air series to the Beechjet 400A/Hawker 400XP. Forward-fit products such as the
milestone GTX 3000 provide operators with a transponder-based product that is
flexible enough to interface with the G5000 integrated flight deck on the
Citation Longitude or provide a path to continued ADS-B compliance for legacy
aircraft such as an ATR 42/72, a DC-9 or Falcon 900.
Established by co-founders Gary Burrell and
Dr. Min Kao in 1989 in Lenexa, Kansas, Garmin was founded with its core roots in
aviation. Today, Garmin has grown to comprise of five business segments and over
11,000 employees around the globe. From a single product, the evolution of
Garmin avionics solutions has grown to serve multiple segments within the
aviation industry, including general aviation, business aviation, helicopter,
experimental amateur-built (EAB), defense and air transport. |