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Astronautics Adds Markets, Platforms for RoadRunner Display

Astronautics has added Indian approval and is working with Maxcraft to install the RoadRunner on Bell 212 and Sikorsky S-61 helicopters.

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

February 11, 2020

With several certifications now in hand, Astronautics (Stand N29) is expanding its market and already incorporating enhancements for the AFI4700 RoadRunner drop-in replacement electronic flight instrument. RoadRunner won U.S. FAA technical standard order and supplemental type certificate (STC) on its initial platforms, the Leonardo A109/119, early last year. Since then, Astronautics has obtained European Union Aviation Safety Agency and Brazilian ANAC nods for the Leonardo models, and just last month added India Directorate General of Civil Aviation approval for the A109E. Other approvals are in the works.

Designed as a lower-cost, easy-to-install replacement for legacy attitude director and horizontal situation directors, RoadRunner provides the functionality of modern electronic flight instrument systems such as enabling LPV approaches and display of H-TAWS, synthetic vision, weather, and other information. The units also enable significant weight savings.

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