Avionics
AEA: Avionics Sales Up 19.2% in First Half
Forward-fit sales surge by 32%
Citation XLS Garmin G5000 panel
Retrofit sales accounted for 40.2 percent of the overall business and general aviation avionics market in the first half.

Business and general aviation avionics sales jumped 19.2 percent year-over-year, to $1.6 billion, in the first six months according to the Aircraft Electronics Association’s (AEA) second-quarter avionics market report. In the second quarter alone, sales soared 16.2 percent over the same period in 2022, to $823 million, AEA reported, noting that this marked the highest quarterly sales volume in the history of its market report.

Forward-fit sales drove those increases, notching its highest quarterly mark at $490 million—only the third time they have topped $400 million over a three-month period. For the first half of the year, forward-fit sales climbed 31.7 percent year-over-year, reaching $958 million.

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