Cabin Interior and Electronics
AMI Aviation Demos King Air Starlink Satcom
Broadband low-earth-orbit satcom delivers high-speed service
King Air 200 Starlink satcom installation
The Starlink electronically steered antenna can be mounted in various locations on the top fuselage of the King Air 200/300. © AIN/Matt Thurber

After completing the first King Air 200/300 supplemental type certificate (STC) for installation of SpaceX’s Starlink satcom, AMI Aviation Services brought its customer’s Starlink-equipped King Air 200 to Fort Worth, Texas, for flight demonstrations of the system during the Aircraft Electronics Association Convention. AIN was invited on one of the demo flights, which took place at Perot Field/Fort Worth Alliance Airport on Tuesday.

One of the benefits of satcom is that it is available on the ground as soon as the system is switched on. The Starlink service came alive shortly after the pilots started the King Air’s engines, and this AIN writer and five other passengers logged on and began consuming Starlink bandwidth.