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Entries Tagged ‘Air Associates’

Cessna 350 makes trip to KOJC

Apr.28, 2008 in Aviation, airplanes Leave a Comment

This morning, Air Associates, hosted an open house at the KOJC airport. One of the planes on display was a re-branded Columbia 350. Cessna is calling this plane the Cessna 350. As you might know, Cessna purchased Columbia in late 2007 after Columbia declared bankruptcy. I must say this was a smart move for Cessna, [...]

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Garmin G1000 Training and Checkout

Jul.11, 2007 in Aviation, airplanes 2 Comments

Last spring when I visited the Cessna Plant in Independence Kansas, they told us that 2006 was the last year could order standard round instrument gauges (commonly referred in the Cessna world as Nav I and Nav II avionics packages); being replaced by the new Garmin G1000 system (called Nav III). I was a little [...]

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