Avionics
IS&S bets displays will be its next big money maker
Buoyed by strong sales of its RVSM cockpit equipment to airlines and business aircraft operators, Exton, Pa.-based Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) th

Buoyed by strong sales of its RVSM cockpit equipment to airlines and business aircraft operators, Exton, Pa.-based Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) this year looks on pace to post record revenue and profits. While that’s certainly good news for the upstart avionics maker, it doesn’t mean that it is too soon to start questioning what the company will do for an encore.

The answer may lie in a line of lower cost cockpit displays that IS&S has been developing over the last several years. The FAA recently awarded TSO approval for the company’s first such product, an impressive 12- by 9-inch active-matrix LCD flat-panel. Roman Ptakowski, company president, said the certification clears the way for applications of the display in military, commercial and general aviation markets, with all three apparently high on IS&S’s list of targets.