Avionics
Budget-priced satcom has FAA nod, starts shipping
Less than a year after Blue Sky Network (BSN) declared at NBAA ’01 its intent to provide general aviation with more affordable satcom technology, its CEO,

Less than a year after Blue Sky Network (BSN) declared at NBAA ’01 its intent to provide general aviation with more affordable satcom technology, its CEO, Jon Gilbert, is in Orlando announcing FAA certification and deliveries of airborne equipment.

Gilbert, who flies his personal Cessna 414 out of San Diego’s Montgomery Field, said last December in New Orleans that he founded BSN to provide a satellite phone service affordable to owner-pilots like himself, using off-the-shelf commercial telecommunications hardware. “I got tired of seeing almost everything priced three times higher just because it says ‘aviation’ on it.”