Elbit Highlights Support and Flight Deck Technology for Bizav Market

Elbit Systems of America (Booth 4269) is bringing its wide range of aircraft sustainment and support services, and advanced cockpit instrumentation this week to NBAA-BACE, focusing on the multinational aerospace and defense company’s business aviation portfolio. A subsidiary of Israel’s Elbit Systems, the Delaware-based company is an FAA-certified repair station for radio, airframe, powerplant, accessories, and instruments, supporting AOG, drop-in, and heavy maintenance needs, offering structural repairs, engineering, field team support, and modernization programs.

The company is also highlighting its technicians’ deep experience in meeting repair requirements and providing the resources to produce the test procedures necessary for approvals from government and commercial agencies. Avionics and electronics repair capabilities extend to the line-replaceable unit and shop-replaceable unit levels and are developed “based on customer needs and urgent requirements in pneumatics, hydraulics, and electro/mechanical systems,” the company said.

On the flight deck, Elbit offers a line of advanced air data products, instrumentation, commercial aircraft services, head-up displays, and vision systems. Its ClearVision enhanced flight vision system (EFVS), sold by sister company Universal Avionics, enables airport accessibility in low-visibility conditions. Comprised of the SkyLens head-wearable display and next-generation multi-spectral enhanced vision system, it is suitable for both new and retrofit applications on business aircraft.

The supply-chain-management team’s ability to support aging aircraft can be especially valuable in today’s disrupted sourcing environment. Elbit has also long been known for its maintenance, repair, and overhaul expertise in the Fairchild Swearingen Merlin and Metro turboprops.

Elbit’s logistics capabilities include engineering support, spare and repair parts identification, facilities, material, and equipment.

For helicopter operators, Elbit offers recurring scheduled maintenance, mechanical component repair and overhaul, and avionics repair and upgrades, as well as complete modernization services aimed at “increasing the capabilities of current rotor fleets, and minimizing the constraints of complex terrain and higher altitudes,” the company said. Work can be performed at Elbit’s facilities, in the field, or at customer-specified locations.

Parent company Elbit Systems has also developed a product from its defense business that is finding more demand in business aviation: its Multi-spectral Infrared Countermeasures (MUSIC) Directed IR Countermeasures (DIRCM) systems, which are designed to protect aircraft against man-portable heat-seeking anti-aircraft missiles. These missiles pose a serious threat to commercial aviation and VIP aircraft, security experts say, and their global proliferation has increased significantly in recent years.

Elbit’s MUSIC DIRCM combines advanced fiber laser technology, a high-frame-rate thermal camera, and a small, highly dynamic mirror turret to counter these threats. The systems are lightweight, compact, and easily installed on a broad range of aircraft, including executive airliners and large-cabin businesss jets.

In July, the Netherlands ordered a MUSIC and electronic warfare system for a Gulfstream G650 operated by its Ministry of Defense. Completion centers have also reported installing the units on aircraft for private and government clients.

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