Avionics Companies Arinc, Chelton Flight Systems, Data Link Solutions Llc, Flight Focus, Flir Systems, Garmin, Honeywell, L-3 Communications, L-Troni

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: ARINC, Chelton Flight Systems, Data Link Solutions LLC, Flight Focus, FLIR Systems, Garmin, Honeywell, L-3 Communications, L-Tronics, Lowrance Electronics, Ram Mounts, Rockwell Collins, S-TEC Corporation, Universal Avionics. Excerpt: Garmin Ltd., incorporated in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is the parent company of a group of companies founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao (hence the name GarMin), that develops consumer, aviation, and marine technologies for the Global Positioning System. Its subsidiary Garmin International, Inc. serves as headquarters for the Garmin Limited companies and is located in Olathe, Kansas in the United States. The largest operating subsidiary and primary production facility of Garmin Limited is Garmin (Asia) Corporation (Chinese: ), located in Sijhih City, Taiwan, a district of New Taipei. Gary Burrell, born in 1937, earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University and a graduate degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He went to work for King Radio, a manufacturer of aviation radios in 1963 just six years after that company was started by Edward King, Jr. in a farmhouse in Olathe. A certificated pilot, Burrell led development on some of King's most successful navigation and communications products. The King Radio company went on to supply Boeing with aircraft radio equipment starting in 1969. By 1989, Burrell had spent nearly his entire professional career - with the exception of a brief stint at Lowrance Electronics - working for King Radio. During these years the company went through many corporate changes. In 1983 King was acquired by the Allied Corporation and combined with the former Bendix Corporation to form Bendix-King. Allied later went on to merge with the Signal Companies in 1985 to form...