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Today, Garmin is proud to celebrate the tenth anniversary of delivering the G1000 Integrated Flight Deck (IFD) to customers. The first announcement of the revolutionary G1000 IFD was in March 2003, when Cessna Aircraft Company announced the selection of G1000 for the Citation Mustang, which was in development at the time. Additional announcements by a [...] The post Garmin Celebrates the Tenth Anniversary of...

You may remember action movies where villains were theoretically able to take over and use airplanes for evil purposes without the pilots knowing what was happening. Or you may have read or seen news reports that speculate about this possibility. Is any of this true? Can an airplane or its avionics really be “hacked”? There [...] The post Avionics and Hackers: An Industry Perspective...

On Saturday over a hundred Citations, King Airs and Hawkers filled the skies with more than 700 athletes and coaches for the Citation Special Olympics Airlift.  The 2014 Special Olympics USA Games, which is taking place this week in Trenton, New Jersey, will host over 3,500 athletes from around the country in 16 different sports. [...] The post The 2014 Citation Special Olympics Airlift...