Evolving Brilliantly

PWI has earned FAA PMA approval for the production of cabin LED lighting solutions for all interior configurations of Textron/Cessna’s Citation II and CJ1 models. The company’s LED kits replace all fluorescent lighting in the aforementioned Citation models’ galleys, lavatories, and passenger cabins.

Replacing fluorescent lighting with LED components reduces aircraft maintenance; extends lighting service-life; does away with heat generated by legacy lighting technologies; diminishes voltage requirements, electric-system load, and Electromagnetic and Radio-Frequency Interference (EMI/RFI); and eliminates the buzz, hum, and flicker characteristic of fluorescent lighting fixtures.

PWI LED kits are engineered to connect directly to host aircraft’s extant wiring using the selfsame electrical connectors innate to the Citation—thereby facilitating straightforward, plug-and-play LED installation.

PWI’s Citation LED kits are offered in both 4000K Warm-White color temperature as well as 5100K Cool-White. The LEDs dim by means of Citation OEM cabin lighting controls or any third-party cabin management system.

PWI’s Citation LED cabin lighting kits offer 100,000 service-hours, require no maintenance, and run on the 28 volts supplied by aircraft.

PWI’s newly-approved cabin light kits join the company’s LED reading lights already approved for Citations and nearly one-hundred additional piston, turboprop, and jet aircraft. PWI continues to support Citation customers with the PMA-approved LED Ice Light/Pylon Floodlight as well as the yet-to-be-approved LED step light replacement for cabin door steps.

PWI’s Citation LED Cabin Light kits carry a three-year warranty, PMA number PQ4159CE, and Supplement numbers: 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29.

Future expansion of PWI’s cabin LED solutions will include additional models of Textron/Cessna’s Citation, Dassault’s Falcon, General Dynamics’s Gulfstream, and Bombardier’s LearJet aircraft.

PWI, Inc.—formerly Precision Winding, Inc.—was founded in 1963 by Miklos (Miki) Lorik, an immigrant who fled Hungary with his wife and her family during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Mr. Lorik modified his wife’s sewing machine and used the resultant contraption to create small, precision wire-wound resistors—thereby laying the groundwork for what would become a successful coil-winding business. That Lorik’s client-list and company grew is certain—as is the fact that he steadily acquired increasingly modern and advanced winding machines. What remains unknown is whether or not Mrs. Lorik ever got her sewing machine back.

Today, PWI serves the aerospace, agricultural, automotive, motorcycle, and military industries. The Wichita-based company maintains a highly-skilled engineering staff by dint of which it develops and supports state-of-the-art technologies the likes of its FAA-approved LED aircraft cabin, and external lighting systems.

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