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To ensure the best connectivity experience for its business aircraft operators, Duncan Aviation is extending the free-of-charge period for Gogo Text & Talk and Gogo Vision inflight entertainment to one full year for clients who schedule and install the Gogo Business Aviation (NYSE: GOGO) AVANCE™ L5 inflight Wi-Fi system.

Duncan Aviation faces and surmounts a challenge to significantly reduce the overall weight of a customer’s Falcon 900EX EASy aircraft while increasing passenger capacity.

Duncan Aviation announces that all of its FBO service locations, including Battle Creek, MI; Kalamazoo, MI; Lincoln, NE; and Provo, UT, have earned the new National Air Transportation Association’s (NATA) Safety 1st Clean Standard.

Duncan Aviation extends customer service hours and adds three new Component CARs (customer account reps) to accommodate repair service calls after hours. The addition of a fourth rep is anticipated by the end of 2020.

Duncan Aviation announces that Aaron Hilkemann, president of Duncan Aviation, will retire from the president position on July 1 of this year and move to chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Advisors, a newly created part-time position. He will be succeeded by Jeff Lake, the current chief operating officer for Duncan Aviation’s Lincoln, NE facility.  

Duncan Aviation would like to remind aircraft owner/operators that although there are seven weeks and two business days until January 1, 2020, the reality is, many aviation vendors and shops close for the last two weeks of the year.

Duncan Aviation announces that its Fixed Based Operator (FBO) facilities in Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, MI, have received Stage I accreditation from the International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling (IS-BAH). Duncan Aviation’s other two main facilities in Lincoln, NE, and Provo, UT, had previously earned this accreditation. 

Over time it becomes difficult to support legacy avionics, and Honeywell has options to avoid obsolescence issues. In this free, 30-minute interactive webinar, Duncan Aviation Regional Avionics Sales manager Michael Kussatz and Regional Avionics Sales manager John Spellmeyer will be joined by Mike Lempke and Ed Borger from Honeywell to discuss flight deck upgrades for aging aircraft.

In a recent move, Duncan Aviation named Sandra Phelps as its International Parts & Rotables Sales Representative dedicated to the EU (European Union) member states. In this role, Phelps will specialize in aircraft parts sales in the European market, managing work orders, parts exchange transactions, and international shipments, including hazardous material.

In spite of the fact that there are still 12 weeks remaining until the FAA’s mandate deadline for Automatic Dependent Survelliance-Broadcast (ADS-B), Bob Hazy, the manager of Duncan Aviation’s Satellite Avionics Shop in Sacramento, CA, says that shop is already booking upgrades through March 2020.