Extreme Makeover is no longer just a television show—it's
the goings-on inside a year-old completion center hangar at Quad
City International Airport in Moline, Ill. Under Elliott Aviation's
care, incoming business aircraft as large as the Challenger 604
may not be recognizable, both in form and function, once the hangar
doors are opened again. "We're bringing back color," says company
spokesman, Tom Heck.
The idea, hatched by Elliott's interior design staff, has at its
core is the Total Aircraft Solutions offering the company announced
at last year's show, but with a new marketing wrap. With Total Solutions,
Elliott was the first aviation services company to offer a complete
range of ownership and upgrade solutions for owners of King Air,
Premier, Hawker and Cessna 550/560 Citations, including aircraft
acquisitions, modifications, completions, avionics and STC development.
Along with its completion center in Moline, Elliott Aviation has
facilities in Des Moines, Iowa, Minneapolis, Minn., and Omaha, Neb.
One of the first aircraft to receive the royal treatment in Moline
was a Citation V, which left the Elliott facility with new exterior
livery, a new interior with reupholstered crew and passenger seats
as well as refinished console tables, cabin bulkheads and forward
refreshment center. In the cockpit, the Citation sported a Honeywell
Mark VIII TAWS, one of an increasing number of STC'd avionics that
Elliott installs in Citations.
In August, the company received an STC to install Universal Avionics'
flat-panel integrated displays, Universal TAWS and Collins AHRS
equipment in the Citation 550/560 series. The Universal flat-panel
STC replaces the standard Citation electromechanical EFIS ADI and
HSI flight instruments with Universal EFI-550 five-inch LCD flat-panel
displays. The certification aircraft included an integrated display
of a Collins TCAS-4000 ACAS, RVSM and Collins TWR-850 turbulence
detector radar.
Elliott is at Both 10035 here.
