Pentastar Aviation to Install First SKYLink System on a Falcon 2000

ARINC says Pentastar Aviation will install a SKYLink system on a customer's Dassault Falcon 2000, making it the first Dassault business jet to have this broadband communications equipment.

SKYLink has developed a new avionics package, with a narrower antenna mount, designed to fit the radome dimensions of Dassault Falcon 50s and 900s as well as the 2000 series, without any change to its performance. The new package also can be installed on Bombardier BD100s, and all of Bombardier's Challenger and Global series.

ARINC has started DO-160E testing of the new antenna hardware and expects to finish by June.

Pentastar Aviation, based in Waterford, Michigan, is SKYLink's newest U.S. channel partner. It expects to obtain an STC (supplemental type certificate) for the Falcon 2000 and complete its first SKYLink installation in September.

According to ARINC, SKYLink is the world's only satellite broadband communications system for business aircraft. Its Ku-band satellite coverage extends from Eastern Europe to the Pacific coast of the United States.  ARINC just announced that its North Atlantic coverage will be expanded soon as well, following the recent activation of a new Loral SkyNet satellite.  05-18-2007.

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