FreeFlight Systems: Your NextGen Avionics Leader
FreeFlight Systems designs and manufactures high-performance avionics systems that deliver substantial safety, cost, environmental and other benefits from the NextGen airspace transformation.
Founded in 2001 and based in Texas, the company pioneered the first certified WAAS GPS receiver and today produces a range of high-quality, American-made, competitively priced ADS-B systems for installation in all aircraft types.
FreeFlight Systems was the first company to certify a WAAS/GPS receiver and is pioneering avionics systems for the implantation of ADS-B in all aircraft types. Based in Central and North Texas, the company offers high quality avionics systems at competitive prices. The company has been in business since 2001 and can trace its legacy back to the earliest applications of GPS technology to commercial and military aviation. This pioneering spirit continues today as the company looks forward to addressing the challenges of the NextGen transformation.
All FreeFlight products are manufactured in the United States and we follow AS 9100 processes. Our high quality products have been selected by many OEM's such as Augusta Westland, Bell Helicopter, Eurocopter, Embraer, Enstrom, Fokker Services, Learjet, MD Helicopter, and Socata. Many of our products are qualified to military standards providing US Military branches with the added safety benefits that FreeFlight products offer in challenging conditions.
FreeFlight offers products that are designed to be flexible in their application that are effective as stand alone avionics or can be fully integrated to form complex aircraft avionics systems. Our product line includes certified ADS-B radios, Mass Memory Systems, WAAS/GPS sensors, Flight Management Systems, SELCAL, and Radar Altimeters.
Our dedicated team at FreeFlight Systems manages each customer with high attention to detail and commitment to excellence. Our mission is to provide high quality avionics at competitive prices.
For more information, please visit www.freeflightsystems.com.
Did You Know?: Cool Facts About FreeFlight Systems
- FreeFlight Systems’ has been selected to provide ADS-B avionics for more than 600 aircraft for the upcoming Rule Compliant Equipage Program
- FreeFlight Systems was the first company to receive TSO on a mandate compliant UAT transmitter in October 2011.
- FreeFlight Systems was the first company to receive an STC for a mandate compliant ADS-B installation on a helicopter
- FreeFlight Systems’ XPLORER ADS-B receiver is available in both WiFi or RS232 versions for integration to your iPad or an uncertified MFDs such as Advanced Flight Solutions, Grand Rapids Technology, and iFly
- FreeFlight Systems developed and manufacture’s the first ramp tester for 978UAT.
- FreeFlight Systems has sold more than 2,200 Radar Altimeters.
- FreeFlight Systems’ RA4000/4500 is the lightest, lowest cost RAD ALT on the market weighing under 2 pounds.
- FreeFlight Systems manufacture’s a low cost, remote mounted WAAS/GPS sensor that can provide time stamping, position source and altitude when integrated with other equipment for applications such as ADS-B , TAWS, or CPDLC.
- FreeFlight Systems’ WAAS/GPS' are available with RS232 or ARINC429 interfaces.
- FreeFlight Systems’ manufacture’s the RANGR-GTX/E, the first and only FAA approved ADS-B out system for airport surface vehicle monitoring to help reduce runway incursion
- FreeFlight Systems is partnered with Robinson Helicopter, MD Helicopters, Bell Textron, Daher Socata, Agusta Westland, Sikorsky, Eurocopter, Eclipse, Embraer, Lockheed Martin, Aspen, and Erikson AirCrane
- FreeFlight Systems sells a crash survivable memory storage device
- FreeFlight Systems offers a low cost RNP solution for older commercial aircraft to meet the upcoming mandate
- FreeFlight Systems manufactures all of its products right here in the USA
- FreeFlight Systems pioneered GPS technology in a compact FMS, dzus mounted display
Cool News From FreeFlight Systems
Oshkosh 2013 Press Conference:
Thursday, Aug 1st at 11:00 AM at EAA Press Headquarters
Oshkosh 2013 Seminars:
- Monday (7/29), 2:30pm - 3:45pm: Forum Pavilion 07, Mainstage Honda Aircraft J09, What is ADS-B?
- Wednesday (7/31), 1:00pm – 2:15pm: Forum Pavilion 07, Mainstage Honda Aircraft J09, What is ADS-B?