Modern avionics technology enhances safety, improves situational awareness, and streamlines aircraft operations. Aviation Enterprises provides complete avionics installation, upgrade, repair, and certification services to help aircraft owners take full advantage of today’s advanced flight systems.
As an authorized Garmin dealer, we deliver customized solutions tailored to your aircraft, flight requirements, and budget.
Our Avionics Services Include:
- Navigation, communication, traffic, and weather system installations
- GPS, ADS-B, transponder, and flight instrument upgrades
- Autopilot installation, troubleshooting, and repair
- Static, transponder, and altimeter testing and certification
- Ongoing troubleshooting and support
Why Upgrade Your Avionics?
Enhanced Safety
Advanced displays provide real-time weather, traffic, and terrain awareness, helping pilots make informed decisions and operate more safely in all conditions.
Lower Pilot Workload
Integrated flight management systems and intuitive touchscreen interfaces simplify flight operations and improve efficiency.
Increased Value
Modernized panels are highly desirable in today’s market and can significantly enhance resale value.
Garmin Avionics
Garmin offers an extensive lineup of integrated avionics designed to improve situational awareness, simplify cockpit management and bring modern capabilities to both newer and legacy aircraft.
GPS Navigation & Flight Planning
Garmin GPS navigators bring navigation, communication and flight-planning capabilities together in an intuitive, integrated system. The GTN Xi Series, including the GTN 650Xi and GTN 750Xi, features high-resolution touchscreen displays with WAAS GPS navigation, graphical flight planning, moving maps and advanced approach capabilities. The systems are designed to make it easier to enter, modify and manage flight plans while keeping essential navigation information readily accessible.
GTN Xi navigators can also integrate with compatible Garmin autopilots, flight displays, transponders, traffic systems and weather solutions. Depending on the aircraft and configuration, pilots can view traffic, terrain, weather and airport information alongside their navigation data, creating a more connected cockpit and improving situational awareness throughout the flight.
Garmin also offers compact GPS navigation solutions for aircraft owners who want modern capabilities without undertaking a complete panel replacement. This range of options allows Aviation Enterprises to help you plan anything from a targeted navigator replacement to a more comprehensive integrated avionics upgrade.
Flight Displays & Electronic Instruments
Garmin electronic flight displays offer multiple paths for replacing aging mechanical instruments and modernizing an existing aircraft panel. For a focused upgrade, compact instruments such as the GI 275 and G5 can replace traditional gauges while maintaining the familiar layout of the existing panel. The GI 275, for example, fits a standard 3-1/8-inch instrument opening and can be configured for a variety of functions, including attitude, heading, navigation, engine information and standby instrumentation.
For a more extensive glass cockpit upgrade, Garmin TXi touchscreen flight displays provide primary flight display (PFD), multifunction display (MFD) and optional engine indication system (EIS) capabilities. Multiple display sizes and configurations allow a system to be designed around the available panel space, aircraft and pilot preferences. TXi systems can also integrate with compatible Garmin navigators, autopilots, weather, traffic and other avionics.
Garmin's AXIS integrated flight displays offer another approach to cockpit modernization, combining multiple avionics functions within an integrated display system. Depending on the configuration, AXIS can incorporate flight instrumentation, navigation, communication, audio, engine information, weather and traffic while reducing the need for a traditional radio stack.
Whether you're replacing individual instruments or considering a full glass cockpit conversion, Aviation Enterprises can help determine which Garmin display configuration best complements your existing equipment and long-term plans for the aircraft.
Autopilot Systems
A modern digital autopilot can do much more than hold a heading or altitude. Garmin's GFC 500 and GFC 600 autopilot systems are designed to reduce pilot workload, provide precise aircraft control and integrate with compatible Garmin navigation and flight display systems.
When paired with compatible Garmin equipment, these autopilots can support coupled navigation and approach procedures, including GPS and ILS approaches. Garmin's integrated systems can also provide flight director guidance and display autopilot modes directly on compatible electronic flight instruments and flight displays.
Garmin also incorporates additional safety-focused capabilities into compatible configurations. For example, Smart Glide can work with compatible Garmin navigators, flight displays and autopilots to assist during an engine-power-loss emergency by identifying a suitable airport, creating a route and helping the aircraft fly toward the selected airport at best-glide speed.
Because autopilot compatibility varies by aircraft and installed equipment, Aviation Enterprises can evaluate your existing avionics and help determine the appropriate Garmin autopilot solution, whether you're adding an autopilot to your current panel or incorporating one into a larger avionics modernization project.
ADS-B, Transponders & Traffic
Garmin offers transponders and traffic solutions designed to meet ADS-B requirements while giving pilots greater awareness of surrounding aircraft and conditions.
Compatible systems can provide ADS-B In traffic and weather information directly on Garmin moving-map displays, allowing pilots to view critical information in context with their route and position.
Additional Garmin traffic systems can provide enhanced traffic monitoring and alerts for even greater situational awareness.
Communication & Audio
Garmin offers a range of NAV/COMM radios, COMM radios and audio panels designed to improve cockpit communication and replace aging avionics.
Depending on the configuration, available features can include digital audio processing, Bluetooth connectivity, intercom capabilities and integration with other Garmin navigation and display systems. These components can be installed individually or incorporated into a more comprehensive panel upgrade.
Weather & Safety Systems
Garmin's general aviation lineup includes a variety of systems designed to improve awareness of weather, terrain, traffic and other potential hazards.
Available solutions include digital weather radar, satellite and ADS-B weather, traffic systems, radar altimeters, height advisors, angle-of-attack systems and carbon monoxide detection.
Many of these technologies can also be integrated with compatible Garmin displays, giving pilots a more complete picture of conditions around the aircraft.
Connected Aircraft Technology
Garmin connectivity solutions help link your avionics with tablets, smartphones and other cockpit systems. Technologies such as Flight Stream, Connext and PlaneSync can support wireless flight-plan transfer, database management and the streaming of GPS, weather and traffic information between compatible devices.
For pilots using multiple Garmin systems, wireless synchronization can also simplify database updates and help keep cockpit information current across compatible avionics.
Plan Your Garmin Avionics Upgrade
The right avionics solution depends on your aircraft, existing equipment, panel configuration and the way you fly.
As an authorized Garmin dealer in Springfield, Missouri, Aviation Enterprises can help you evaluate your options, identify compatible systems and develop an upgrade plan that makes sense for your aircraft.
Contact our avionics team to discuss your Garmin installation or panel upgrade.