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SportairUSA earns FAA Aircraft & Avionics Repair Station License

By Janice Wood · October 10, 2010 ·

SportairUSA, LC, is now an FAA certificated 14 CFR 145 Repair Station serving the general aviation community in Arkansas and surrounding states from its facilities at the North Little Rock Municipal Airport (ORK).

SportairUSA was awarded FAA certificate number 2SUR495B in August, just in time for the celebration of its 20th anniversary.

Ralph Murphy, for many years a manager at Skytravel Avionics at Adams Field, has joined SportairUSA to head up the avionics department, where he will perform and supervise installations, upgrades and repairs of avionics, radios, instruments, autopilots and related airframe modifications.

SportairUSA sells, installs and maintains the following avionics:

GPS Systems, panel mount and portable

  • Panel mount avionics
  • Autopilots – certified or experimental
  • Flight Instruments
  • Glass cockpits
  • Traffic avoidance systems
  • Aircraft engine monitors
  • Navigation systems
  • Glass cockpits

For more information: Sportair.aero or 888-359-7572

About Janice Wood

Janice Wood is editor of General Aviation News.

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