AIRCRAFT AND AVIONICS SALES

In addition to fixed-wing aircraft, Aircraft and Avionics Sales provides services for helicopter operators. The repair station's customers include Pennsylvania state agencies as well as companies that check high-tension power lines and spray crops. The service center is a Class 1 and 2 repair station with limited Class 3 radio, limited electronic, limited gyroscopic instrument, and limited airframe capabilities. Although Narco radios take up a great deal of their time, the technicians also handle a lot of Garmin, S-TEC, and Aspen installations, too, according to Paul Haubert. "I first started working on tube radios," he said. "They didn't have transistors. The first radio was called a coffee grinder because the transmitter was crystal-controlled. Tuning the receiver was like tuning a radio. It was actually called whistle-stop tuning. You selected the transmitter to say 119.50 megahertz and cranked the receiver until you heard an audio sound like 'errr, err.' The down part of that sound..

Also known as: Aircraft and Avionics Sales, Inc.

Primary location: New Cumberland United States