Albinati Aeronautics selects Duncan Aviation and Honeywell to provide Honeywell Ovation Select cabin management system for Falcon 50EX owner
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Honeywell CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY Falcon 50EX owner sees the benefits of Honeywell's Ovation Select® Albinati Aeronautics managed the selection and installation of “easy to use” cabin management system Overview Albinati Aeronautics is a Geneva-based business aviation company that, along with its Maltese sister company Albinati Aviation Ltd, provides a range of services including aircraft management and maintenance supervision. The owner of a Falcon 50EX under its care was looking to replace the ageing cabin in its aircraft with a new state-of-the-art system. Albinati Aeronautics recommended Honeywell’s Ovation Select and supervised the completion of work by Duncan Aviation in the United States. Thanks to Ovation Select’s compatibility with iPhones and iPads, the aircraft’s passengers can now listen to their music, watch videos and view their photographs while in the air. And even younger passengers have found it to be easy to use and convenient. Background Founded in 2001 by Stefano Albinati, who has an extensive background in business and private aviation, Albinati Aeronautics is one of the rare family-managed companies operating in the aviation solutions industry. The company’s core activities are aircraft management, sales and acquisitions, maintenance supervision and chartering of business jets worldwide. Its aircraft maintenance supervision services include coordinating and monitoring all scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance and ensuring that it is carried out only by approved centres. Albinati Aeronautics’ service also provides accurate costs analysis and control, renewal of airworthiness certificates and reviewing, filing and safekeeping of all technical records. Among 18 aircraft, either privately or commercially operated under Swiss or Maltese Air Operator Certificates (AOC), Albinati Aeronautics has managed an Isle of Man registered Falcon 50EX since it was delivered to its current owner in 2014. Business Need Soon after taking delivery of the Falcon jet, its new owner identified a need to overhaul the cabin with a new state-of-the-art entertainment system. The aircraft would make frequent flights, some of them journeys of several hours duration, and it was important that passengers would be able to travel in comfort with modern business and entertainment systems such as those they make use of at their offices and homes. “Before the owner bought this aeroplane it was fitted with an old-style interior - like something from the 1970s,” said Fabien Rousse, Continuing Airworthiness Co-ordinator, Albinati Aeronautics. The owner wanted the ability to display slide shows on the cabin monitors, to listen to music and to have a system that was compatible with Apple iPhones and iPads. The system also needed to be easy to use by families of the company executives who sometimes travel on board. QUICK FACTS Honeywell solution Ovation Select® Customer results • Owner and passengers find to system easy to use • Ability to connect personal devices such as iPhones and iPads has improved the inflight experience • The system has been reliable, without a single technical issue within the first four months of operation Why Albinati Aeronautics chose Honeywell • Ovation Select® provides the ability for passengers to easily connect their own mobile devices to the aircraft’s cabin system • The system is very easy to use, even for younger members of the executives’ families • Honeywell’s global network means that technical support is available anywhere in the world Customer • Name: Albinati Aeronautics • Location: Geneva, Switzerland • Industry: Business aviation services • Website: w

“The system is very friendly and easy to use. That’s one of the reasons why we selected it - you don’t need a manual to use it. You don’t need to be a specialist of entertainment systems to use it, so it’s easy to use for the entire family. The owner is very happy with it.” Fabien Rousse, Continuing Airworthiness Co-ordinator, Albinati Aeronautics Solution Honeywell’s Ovation Select cabin management system, based on reliable state-of-the-art digital technology and nearly 40 years of expertise, delivers the ultimate in entertainment and in-flight productivity. Ovation Select seamlessly...