Omni Aircraft Maintenance wants to help aircraft owners with legacy Gogo air-to-ground connectivity systems swap them out for the C-1 upgrade at no cost. Customers can either fly to Omni’s Tulsa, Oklahoma headquarters, or Omni will send a technician to the customer’s location to do the upgrade.
Gogo’s C-1 upgrade enables legacy ATG owners to continue using Gogo’s LTE connectivity service over the U.S. and parts of Canada without having to upgrade to the faster L3 or L5 Avance system or upcoming high-speed 5G service. The classic ATG network will be shut down on May 1, 2026, and there will be no extensions of this deadline.
Gogo is offering $35,000 rebates for buyers of the C-1 upgrade, and Omni Aircraft charges $35,000 for the upgrade, so the result is no cost to the aircraft owner. To get the rebate, customers must sign and commit to the C-1 upgrade by Dec. 31, 2025, according to Gogo.
Installation for a single airplane takes about two hours, but Omni Aircraft technicians can do multiple installations in the same location more efficiently. For example, the company recently swapped in 17 C-1 boxes in just nine hours at a customer’s location in Minnesota for a fleet of Cessna Citation Xs.
“There is no cost to the owner or operator,” said Michael Rodgers, CEO of Omni Aircraft Maintenance. “It’s going to be a long time before another network [gets shut] down…and this is a great opportunity to win a long-term client. It’s an opportunity to give the owner a great deal and, assuming it’s a good experience, hopefully…it’s a way for us to further develop our client base.”
Omni Aircraft Maintenance wants to help aircraft owners with legacy Gogo air-to-ground connectivity systems swap them out for the C-1 upgrade at no cost. Customers can either fly to Omni’s Tulsa, Oklahoma headquarters, or Omni will send a technician to the customer’s location to do the upgrade.
Gogo’s C-1 upgrade enables legacy ATG owners to continue using Gogo’s LTE connectivity service over the U.S. and parts of Canada, without having to upgrade to the faster L3 or L5 Avance system or the upcoming high-speed 5G service. The classic ATG network will be shut down on May 1, 2026, and there will be no extensions of this deadline.
Gogo is offering $35,000 rebates for buyers of the C-1 upgrade, and Omni Aircraft charges $35,000 for the upgrade, so the result is no cost to the aircraft owner. In order to get the rebate, customers must sign and commit to the C-1 upgrade by Dec. 31, 2025, according to Gogo.
Installation for a single airplane takes about two hours, but Omni Aircraft technicians can do multiple installations in the same location more efficiently. For example, the company recently swapped in 17 C-1 boxes in just nine hours at the customer’s location in Minnesota, for a fleet of Citation Xs.
“There is no cost to the owner or operator,” said Michael Rodgers, CEO of Omni Aircraft Maintenance. “It’s going to be a long time before another network [gets shut] down…and this is a great opportunity to win a long-term client. It’s an opportunity to give the owner a great deal and, assuming it’s a good experience, hopefully…it’s a way for us to further develop our client base.”
For aircraft owners and operators that need worldwide connectivity, Omni Aircraft is also offering installations of Gogo’s Galileo HDX system, which runs on Intelsat’s OneWeb low-earth-orbit satellite network. Omni’s first supplemental type certificate for the HDX antenna is for Bombardier’s Learjet 45/75, and the company is providing more information on that package this week at its NBAA-BACE exhibit.
According to Rodgers, Omni Aircraft is also highlighting at the show its avionics and maintenance capabilities. He believes that the reinstated bonus depreciation will incentivize aircraft owners to upgrade and have more maintenance work done. After NBAA-BACE, Omni Aircraft will move into a new hangar in Tulsa, tripling its space at Tulsa International Airport (KTUL).