Garmin : Celebrates the Tenth Anniversary of G1000
June 25, 2014 at 11:36 am EDT
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Garmin is proud to celebrate today, the tenth anniversary of delivering the G1000 Integrated Flight Deck (IFD) to customers. The first announcement of the revolutionary G1000 IFD was in March 2003, when Cessna Aircraft Company announced the selection of G1000 for the Citation Mustang, which was in development at the time. Additional announcements by a variety of aircraft manufacturers followed and the first customer deliveries of the G1000 IFD began in June 2004, by both Cessna and Diamond Aircraft in their single-engine product lines.
"In many ways, the 10-year period seems to have flown by," said Carl Wolf, vice president of aviation sales and marketing. "We are very proud to celebrate this terrific milestone and are sincerely thankful to our aircraft manufacturing partners, as well as the aircraft owners, for selecting G1000 and being an important part of the Garmin family. To date, the G1000 IFD has been certified in 49 aircraft models, which represent 19 different aircraft manufacturers. There are now over 12,500 G1000 systems flying worldwide, ranging from single and multi-engine piston aircraft, turboprops, rotorcraft and business jets - with plenty more on the way. We look forward to pursuing additional aircraft models, as well as select retrofit opportunities and enthusiastically serving our customers well into the future with Garmin's award-winning aviation product support teams."
Since its introduction, a key to the success of G1000 has been many of the safety-enhancing features that have been certified and made available to be added in the field to an existing G1000 system. Synthetic Vision Technology (SVT) is an excellent example, which was certified in 2008 and replicated what pilots would see outside of the cockpit on a clear day. Through a software update and no change to the equipment configuration, SVT can be installed on nearly every G1000 system ever delivered, assuming the system had been kept up to date. Other features that have been certified since the introduction of G1000, include:
Automatic Flight Control Integration
Class A TAWS
Class B TAWS
Helicopter TAWS (HTAWS)
Weather Radar support
WAAS Capability
Electronic Charts (Garmin FliteCharts and Garmin ChartView)
SafeTaxi
AOPA Airport Directory
Enhanced Vision System (EVS) Integration
Electronic Stability Protection (ESP) Integration
TCAS II Integration
Global Voice, Weather & Data Capability
Geo-referenced FliteCharts
Building on the framework fostered by years of innovation, the G1000 revolutionized the market by offering advanced capabilities and features to pilots around the world, which has been helping aviators safely reach their destinations for a decade.
Garmin Ltd. is one of the world's leaders in designing, producing, and marketing satellite geopositioning systems (GPS). The activity is organized around two families of products:
- marine and land geopositioning systems: tracers and sensors, pocket assistants, automobile guidance systems, sporting equipment (equipped with detectors for speed, distance traveled, heart rate, etc.);
- aerial geopositioning equipment: high-frequency communication transmitters, aerial display products, digital transponders (for transmitting altitude and flight number, broadcast by towers and control radar systems), beacon receivers, audio panels, etc.
Net sales break down by area of activity between outdoor activities (32.5%), sports and fitness (25.7%), marine (17.5%), aviation (16.2%), and automotive (8.1%).
At the end of 2023, the group had 9 production sites located in the United States (3), Taiwan (3), China, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (50%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (34%) and Asia/Pacific (16%).