BEFORE An entire cockpit of traditional, analog instruments and avionics. Air Alliance GmbH air-alliance.de Location: Burbach, Germany Number of employees: 55 Installers/technicians involved with the project: * Rainer Quack (head office of airworthiness) * Jochen Herold (design engineer) * Bernd Kaiser (compliance verification engineer) * Tobias Meier (installer) Aircraft type: Learjet 35/35A What was the objective of the project? To fulfill the current and upcoming legal standards to allow operating the Learjet 35/35A for the next decade What date was the project started? March 2014 What date was the project completed? January 2015 (date of EASA STC approval) What makes this installation unique? The Learjet 35/35A avionics retrofit program complies with the appropriate current and future EASA and FAA requirements and enables the operation as follows: * Basic-RNAV operation * Precision-RNAV operation * GPS operation * RNAV RNP APCH operation * RNAV LPV APCH operation * Oceanic/Remote RNAV 10 operation * TAWS Class A * ADS-B surveillance Additional comments: The avionics upgrade was part of a 12,000h/12-year aircraft inspection. FAA approval of EASA STC is pending. The entire avionics upgrade includes four STCs and four minor changes. q AFTER The new layout features a modern Lear 35A glass cockpit. avionics news * may 2015 69http://www.air-alliance.de