Tue, Oct 09, 2007
Modified C-182T Will Be Delivered Next Month
It's a Skylane with, perhaps, a higher calling. Yingling
Aviation of Wichita, KS recently completed the installation of a
special avionics package on a Cessna 182T specifically equipped to
accomplish the Civil Air Patrol's (CAP's) search and rescue
missions. The milestone aircraft was the 100th completed by
Yingling and Cessna for the CAP since the company received a
Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Special Missions
Equipment installation in 2003.
Representatives with Yingling tell ANN the system includes two
Garmin GMA-1347 audio panels, a Technisonic TDFM-136 FM transceiver
for direct communication with law enforcement entities, a Becker
DF-517 Direction Finder, and an optional ARTEX 110-406 Emergency
Locator Transmitter (ELT) with ELT-NAV interface which transmits
the aircraft's position via satellite.
The modified Skylanes can also be configured to accommodate an
ARNAV RCOM 100 SATCOM with NAT PTA-12 Telephone Dialer. The dual
audio system allows observers in the back seats of the
specially-equipped airplanes to converse among themselves while the
pilot continues to communicate on a different channel.
"The mission of the Civil Air Patrol is important and
extensive," said Bob Gallop, Yingling's Vice President of Repair
Station Operations. "We're glad that we can contribute to the
capability of the CAP by equipping their 182s with a package that
makes their communications and interaction with search and rescue
personnel on the ground and in other aircraft easier and more
efficient. By interfacing existing avionics with the special
package designed for the CAP's search and rescue mission, we're
able to create airplanes that will be more efficient in doing their
job and safer for the crews who operate them."
As ANN reported, Cessna
delivered the aircraft to Yingling at the end of September. CAP
will receive the plane next month.
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