During a recent visit to Garmin’s flight ops in Olathe, Kansas, I of course respected the request to shut down the cameras in some of the classified work hangars. But let’s be clear – Garmin is serious about earning new STCs for a variety of products in an extremely wide variety of aircraft – from pistons to turbines. And that STC list is quickly growing.
Proof is the newly approved G3X Touch installed in a Grumman Tiger that I flew for this report. In case you missed the announcement, the flagship G3X Touch integrated glass panel came from the company’s experimental line, but in the course of a year Garmin earned an STC via an approved model list (AML) for over 500 aircraft models. In the current certification climate that’s no joke, and neither is the dollar investment to get it done.