FLYHT Receives STC for Boeing 737 AFIRS

FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has received an activation Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for its Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS) 228 on the Boeing 737 – 700/800 series aircraft from Transport Canada.

 

The Boeing 737 is the most popular airframe globally and, with a service life in excess of 30 years, is a mainstay of the global aviation industry. FLYHT adds the AFIRS 228 STC for this popular aircraft type to the options available.

 

An STC constitutes regulatory approval to modify an aircraft’s design while retaining airworthiness certification and is necessary to permit retrofit installation of aeronautical products such as AFIRS. The company has activation STCs for 43 aircraft types for AFIRS 220 and 228 products and continues to develop STC’s for numerous other aircraft types.

 

AFIRS 228 is FLYHT’s next-generation flagship product, designed to provide a fully certified avionics platform capable of meeting all air navigation communications requirements in Europe, the United States and other jurisdictions around the world. It also provides the input and outputs necessary to enhance the value of real-time data globally. The AFIRS 228 safety services certified platform provides black box data streaming via the FLYHTStream solution. If an aircraft encounters an emergency, a triggered data streaming mode, FLYHTStream, automatically streams vital data, normally secured in the black box, to designated sites on the ground in real time.

 

A separate press release states that on Nov. 12, 2013, FLYHT Aerospace Solutions officials signed a contract with an unnamed South American cargo airline for the AFIRS. The contract requires FLYHT to install the AFIRS on 12 Boeing 737-400 and 12 ATR-200 aircraft. The airline, described as a cargo carrier with plans to be the dominant cargo carrier in the region with an integrated ground and air cargo operation, intends to use AFIRS as a key component of its paperless operational strategy to reduce total operating costs and increase efficiencies.

 

Bill Tempany, CEO and president of FLYHT, remarks, “We are excited to be partnering with an operator who has a similar vision to ours and can see the competitive advantage of AFIRS for operational control and cost savings. We are confident that our AFIRS-based solutions will enable our customer’s vision.”

 

FLYHT will provide equipment and services to the airline over a 5-year contract with automatic yearly renewals after the initial term. Installations are anticipated to begin once the necessary local approvals of FLYHT’s existing STC’s for these aircraft are received. It is anticipated that the approvals will take three to six months. If FLYHT completes installation on all contracted aircraft and provides recurring service for the full term of the agreement, the overall gross revenue to FLYHT will be approximately US$2,561,400, excluding optional services.