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Despite Sale, Collins Still Has a Robust Cabin Business

After sale of its airline in-flight entertainment business, Collins Aero fights perception it's exited the same work for business jets.

Collins Aerospace continues to have an active cabin products business for business jets and VVIP aircraft despite what company officials said is a perception otherwise. (Photo: Collins Aerospace)

By Jerry Siebenmark • Senior Editor

May 3, 2019

Ever since Collins Aerospace sold off its airline in-flight entertainment (IFE) business to digEcor (now Burrana), it’s had to fight the perception that it got out of the cabin products business altogether. The day of the announcement, Mark Zimmerman, director of business development for Collins’s VVIP and head-of-state solutions, told AIN he fielded calls from his completions center customers asking, “‘Mark, you don’t work for Collins anymore?’” To this day, some in the industry don’t realize that Collins remains in the IFE sector for business jets and VVIP and continues to have a robust cabin business. “I don’t know that we did the greatest job of articulating that message,” Zimmerman explained.

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