Product Support Survey 2014 Part 2: Avionics

Garmin held on to its first-place position in AIN’s 2014 Avionics Product Support Survey, scoring an 8.3 rating from AIN readers, the same number as last year. L-3 Avionics moved up to second place this year, a halfpoint jump to 7.8 from last year’s fourth-place rating of 7.3 and tied with Universal Avionics, which also held the second-place spot last year. Rockwell Collins moved up a tenth of a point to 7.7 this year for third place, the same spot it held in last year’s survey.

Honeywell’s fourth-place ranking this year is one place higher on the list and the company also enjoyed a threetenths-of-a-point climb in its rating to 7.4 from 7.1. In fifth place this year is Avidyne, which saw a ratings drop to 7.2, followed by Honeywell’s BendixKing subsidiary with a one-tenth-point climb to 7.1.