Forward.Vision Expands Platforms, Gains RTCA Certification

Editorial Staff

Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Forward.Vision announced new marketing and OEM agreements to expand availability of its EVS-100 enhanced vision system for experimental aircraft.
The EVS-100 received RTCA DO-160E approval, enabling the development of Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs).
Comp Air and Expedition Aircraft will offer the EVS-100 on their aircraft lines.
Eriksson Aviation and Hawker Pacific signed on as Forward.Vision dealers.

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Forward.Vision announced this week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2008 marketing and OEM agreements designed to make the company’s EVS-100 infrared-based enhanced vision system available on many more experimental aircraft. The company also announced it had received RTCA DO-160E approval, paving the way for its first installation STCs.

Airframe manufacturers embracing the EVS-100 include Comp Air, which will make the system available on its line of turbine-powered kit aircraft, and Expedition Aircraft, which will offer the self-contained unit on their EX-350 and EX-350 XC. Separately, both Eriksson Aviation of St. Paul, MN, and Australia-based Hawker Pacific have signed on as Forward.Vision dealers.