Avionics
Banyan Air Service grows with KFXE
With its first FANS 1/A Challenger upgrade in the hangar, Banyan gears up for more to come.
Banyan’s Craig Chin, avionics installation lead coordinator (left), reviews the Challenger 604 work order along with Charles Amento, director of maintenance (center), and Curtis Florio, maintenance crew leader.
Banyan’s Craig Chin, avionics installation lead coordinator (left), reviews the Challenger 604 work order along with Charles Amento, director of maintenance (center), and Curtis Florio, maintenance crew leader.

Craig Chin, avionics installation coordinator for Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Banyan Air Service is excited. The full-service FBO and maintenance facility (Booths C11638, C8816) now houses in its avionics bay what he hopes will be the first of many Challenger 604s. It’s in for a Rockwell Collins FANS 1/A and WAAS LPV avionics upgrade. “This airplane is used internationally,” said Chin, explaining that with new avionics mandates in place and coming, the airplane needs the upgrades so that it can be used the way its owner always intended. “What we are trying to do is make a niche for ourselves as the place to come to have your Challenger series aircraft upgraded with FANS 1/A,” he told AIN.