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Jennifer Harden, senior manager of Aftermarket Sales for Southeast U.S., who started to coordinate with the company’s service centers in Tampa and Wichita.
“From first contact, our team was excited about the scope of the project and the fact that it was a 50th anniversary edition,” said Dan Lyon, vice president of Aftermarket Sales, Textron Aviation. “We recognized it right away as a cool opportunity to get to take a commemorative aircraft some 40 years after it rolled off the assembly line and make it new and vibrant again.”
He added: “We’ve done some big projects but I don’t believe we’ve done this big of a modification on an airplane that’s 42 years old. The Edgingtons pretty much went all in, and the result is an amazing transformation.”
The flight panel before (bottom) and after updating it (top) with the Garmin G600 TXi and G750 TXi and making it lighter after 350 pounds of wiring was removed. (Before photos courtesy of Textron Aviation; after photos by Ricardo Reitmeyer for Textron Aviation)
AUGUST 2024
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