“When you think of a Honeywell navigation system, it’s in fact, built on a CMC unit,” said Bruce Bailey, v-p of commercial aviation at CMC Electronics, which is exhibiting in Orlando this week in Booth No. 2967. “We’re kind of like the campaign for ‘Intel Inside’ with regard to a number of brands. We’ve probably got 15,000 to 20,000 GPS sensors in the field in almost any platform, and of course we put it in our own FMS. We’ve been working at letting people know all this.”
CMC Electronics, which, a little over a year ago, was acquired by Esterline Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., is focusing its attention here this week on its electronic flight bag (EFB) line. “In 2001 we were probably doing 10 percent of commercial aviation sales in the bizav sector,” said Bailey. “We’re just closing on next year’s budget but I expect it to be in the 40-percent range. The key areas are flight bags and enhanced-vision systems. The market sector itself is growing. Ten years ago EFBs did not exist, and now we’re on our second-generation version and we’re shipping 100 per month.”
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