Kestrel Aircraft has chosen Garmin as its launch vendor for avionics on its new turboprop single. The G3000 suite, the same system used in the Phenom 300, was picked but Kestrel CEO Alan Klapmeier said there will be future options for customers. "Competition is good," he told a news conference at AirVenture 2013. Klapmeier also announced that funding delays have pushed back the development schedule. Klapmeier says he's still hopeful a conforming prototype can be ready to display at next year's AirVenture. Klapmeier said he had hoped to announce the program was fully funded at this year's show but deals fell through in the weeks ahead of the event. He said all businesses face this issue and it can be as frustrating as it is puzzling. Meanwhile, the company has grown to more than 110 employees, most of them engineers, and progress continues to be made on the myriad tasks that must be completed in designing and building an airplane.
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