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“They bring us the issues they’re hearing from the cus- tomers and we come up with solutions.”
they’re hearing from the customers and we come up with solutions.”
Like many of their products, AvFab’s most recent King Air interior development started with hearing an operator’s issue and thinking “there’s got to be a better way,” Jeff said.
A missionary group that operates several type of aircraft needed a stretcher for transporting a non-critical care patient that didn’t require reconfiguring the interior and was compact enough that it could be left on the airplane so it was handy in an emergency while traveling in a remote area.
AvFab received TSO approval in October for the STOWAWAY Medical Stretcher Kit, which folds in half for storage in a King Air’s wing locker, as well as cargo pod and baggage areas of other aircraft types.
“As we went through the development process with the STOWAWAY stretcher, we saw that it would have a broader appeal than only the humanitarian market that had presented the problem to us,” Jeff said. “We could see charter, corporate and private operators using it, whether they’re flying into remote areas or they’ve got an elderly family member they’re taking to Florida for the winter. In the King Air, you push it to the front of a wing locker, where you usually don’t use that space, and then you’ve got it with you in case a medical situation comes up. There’s a lot of value there for less than a $10,000 investment.”
Several big King Air projects are in development currently, Jeff said, including a drink rail table system that will modernize a King Air 350 interior to look like the current production 360 model.
“We love trying to find ways to build on what’s already the best airplane,” he said. “We do that with repairs, with mods, with utility enhancements – anything we can come up with interior wise. We make products and repair parts for many other airplanes, but the King Air is our heartbeat.” KA
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