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In the first three months of 2021, worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales totaled $568,810,353, according to the Aircraft Electronics Association’s first-quarter 2021 Avionics Market Report. Though that’s a 13.9 percent decrease over the bumper first quarter of last year, it also represents a 1 percent increase over the last quarter of 2020, marking the third consecutive quarter of increasing revenues, industry-wide. That’s significant because last year’s ADS-B mandate provided an unusual boost to retrofit sales, and the fact that revenues continue to increase is noteworthy.
And while retrofit sales (avionics equipment installed after original production) had dominated the statistics as the fleet reequipped for ADS-B, the forward-fit segment (avionics equipment installed by airframe manufacturers during original production) also shone in Q1 of this year, up by 18.7 percent above the figure for Q1 2020. Still, of the more than $568 mil
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- March 9, 2021, 12:38 PM
Michael Mike O’Leary, a 50-year aviation veteran who had become the Aircraft Electronics Association’s (AEA) longest-serving chairman, died on February 14 from Covid-19 complications. He was 69. A celebration of life event is tentatively scheduled for September 12 in Phoenix.
O’Leary, who had retired from Elliott Aviation in 2020, was born and raised on a farm in northwest Iowa. After graduating from Emmetsburg High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 and served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a torpedo man on the USS
Towers destroyer, according to AEA.
After leaving the military, he earned his pilot’s license and A&P mechanic license, beginning his career as an avionics installer. That launched a career that continued through his retirement and involved positions at a number of avionics and electronics companies.