Collins Aerospace awards Astronics with follow-on IFE contract

Collins Aerospace has awarded Astronics Corporation a US$19 million order for business jet connectivity equipment to be delivered in 2022.

The order is a follow-on to the approximately $11 million order announced in February 2021.

There has been growing demand for Collins’ business aviation connectivity solution LuxStream, which provides high-speed world-wide connectivity to deliver a broad variety of remote conferencing services and streaming entertainment.

“We are excited to support the growing success of the Collins Aerospace Ku-band connectivity service,” said Michael Kuehn, Astronics CSC President. “We believe this order validates the continued success of Collins’ connectivity services and the performance of Astronics’ connectivity hardware. Astronics is committed to developing and producing the best connectivity hardware for airborne platforms.”