Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. receives Delta Air Lines, Inc. Award for NextGen Flat Panel Display System and Flight Management System Turnkey Upgrade to its MD-88 and MD-90 Aircraft Fleet

Upgrade to reduce MD-88/-90 fleet CO ₂ emissions by 80 million pounds annually and noise footprint by more than 50%

EXTON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Delta) placed an order today for more than $60 million with Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. (NAS: ISSC) for a complete Systems Integration, Dual GPS Navigation and Cockpit Avionics upgrade of Delta’s MD88 and MD90 aircraft. IS&S will supply all the equipment and installation kits. Specially trained IS&S installation teams will remove existing equipment and install all the LRUs, on site, and prepare the aircraft for return to service. It is anticipated that this turnkey modification will take fewer than six days

This Delta Air Lines order for a fleet wide retrofit of MD-88/-90 aircraft will provide those aircraft with full RNP, RTA, and GPS (Required Navigational Performance, Required Time of Arrival, and Global Positioning System) capabilities with similar efficiency and performance to the newest production aircraft. In addition, the flight deck integration eliminates legacy CRT and Flight Management avionics, leverages recently developed advanced technology, and provides the flexibility to install future upgrades. The ISSC system includes an advanced flight management system, an integrated standby system, and primary flight displays. The system implements Data Link and ADS-B capabilities.

“I am very pleased with the opportunity to work with Delta on this important program. This advanced system is an important milestone that confirms and endorses our 5 year development efforts of a Next Generation Flight Management System,” said Geoffrey Hedrick, Chairman and CEO of Innovative Solutions & Support.

IS&S’s advanced Flight Management System and Global Positioning System Receivers have been selected in all three market segments of Air Transport, Military and Business Aviation. IS&S supplies Flight Management solutions to the commercial market for B-737, MD-80, MD-88 and MD-90. IS&S supplies the military market for C-130, L-100 and the Business market for the Eclipse E500 and E550 aircraft. These flight management systems are amongst the industries most advanced aircraft performance and navigation solutions. The dual IS&S precision Beta 3 GPS navigation system provides three-dimensional position and velocity information accurate to 10 feet. The IS&S dual redundant, RNP …read more

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