Garmin announced on Wednesday that 10 percent of the Cessna Citation Excel and XLS business jet fleet has now been retrofitted with the company’s G5000 integrated flight deck upgrade. As previously reported by AVweb, the G5000 Citation Excel/XLS retrofit program was introduced in 2016 and received STC approval two years ago. According to Garmin, the G5000 upgrade provides a way to modernize the Excel/XLS cockpit and solve “long-term concerns related to legacy avionics parts obsolescence.”
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