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Advertisers Index
Accord Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Aero Standard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Aerospace Optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Air Harness Manufacturing . . . . . . . . . . 61
Aircraft Electronics Association. . . . . . . 11
Astronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
ATEQ-Omicron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Aviation Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Avidyne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Avionics Specialist Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
AVweb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
B/E Aerospace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
BendixKing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Cal Labs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Cobham Aerospace Communications . . 45
Cobham AvComm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Dallas Avionics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC
EDMO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BC

Aircraft and Avionics Sales operates out of a 4,200-square-foot facility at Capital City Airport
located 3 miles southeast of Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania.

Flight Display Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Flying Magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
FreeFlight Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

AIRCRAFT AND AVIONICS SALES
Continued from page 25

Garmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Georgetown Instrument Services . . . . . 66
GlobalParts.aero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Gogo Business Aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
JETTECH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
KGS Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
L-3 Aviation Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics. . . 1
Millennium International . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Nason Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Pacific Southwest Instruments . . . . . . IBC
ProCal Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Sandia Aerospace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
SIU-Carbondale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Sun Aviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Tech-Aid Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Tri-Star Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
True Blue Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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more cost-effective way to keep him
flying," said Paul Haubert. "Nothing seems more unjust than having
to replace an entire module because
we are not permitted to replace a $2
part."
In addition to fixed-wing aircraft,
Aircraft and Avionics Sales provides services for helicopter operators. The repair station's customers
include Pennsylvania state agencies
as well as companies that check
high-tension power lines and spray
crops.
The service center is a Class 1
and 2 repair station with limited
Class 3 radio, limited electronic,
limited gyroscopic instrument, and
limited airframe capabilities. Although Narco radios take up a great
deal of their time, the technicians
also handle a lot of Garmin, S-TEC,

and Aspen installations, too, according to Paul Haubert.
"I first started working on tube
radios," he said. "They didn't have
transistors. The first radio was
called a coffee grinder because the
transmitter was crystal-controlled.
Tuning the receiver was like tuning a radio. It was actually called
whistle-stop tuning. You selected
the transmitter to say 119.50 megahertz and cranked the receiver until
you heard an audio sound like 'errr,
err.' The down part of that sound
meant it was tuned.
"Of course, today, the avionics
are incredibly sophisticated. Manufacturers like Garmin are coming
out with some great stuff. We see
training as very important to keep
up with it all. Our technicians use
the AEA's online training all of the
time. We've been an AEA Avionics
Training Excellence Award recipient since the shop began." q
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