ACI Jet Completes CMS Install, Signs for ILS SalesEdge

The maintenance team at ACI Jet has completed its first-article installation of a Cabin Management Solutions in-flight entertainment and cabin management system (CMS) on a Bombardier Challenger 605.

Both companies shared engineering and certification of the Cabin Management Solutions supplemental type certificate (STC), and they will share licensing rights for the STC that covers the Bombardier Challenger 605. The Model 604 and 650 can also get the same upgrade but will require deviation packages and drawings from Cabin Management Solutions. The companies are also examining opportunities to offer a similar upgrade for Bombardier Globals.

With the upgrade, Challenger owners and operators get Cabin Management Solutions’ Elite 4K video, Elevate high-resolution audio, and Evolve cabin management system, with dual 24-inch monitors, a new digital audio amplifier, speakers, and dual high-power subwoofers. The user interface is via wireless touchscreen switches that are also customizable and require no panel or woodwork removal. During the installation, ACI Jet is also adding a Starlink satcom system to the Challenger.

Meanwhile, in a move that will make its parts inventory easily available online, ACI Jet is implementing the SalesEdge Commerce platform developed by Camp Systems’ Inventory Locator Service. Once ACI Jet implements SalesEdge in the first quarter, its OEM and aftermarket parts inventory will be available for purchase by aircraft operators, brokers, and maintenance providers.

Based in San Luis Obispo, California, ACI Jet is a Bombardier-authorized service facility, and its ACI Jet Parts is the only Bombardier parts depot on the West Coast. “SalesEdge Commerce gives our customers exactly what they’ve been asking for—simple, secure access to certified inventory backed by a service team they trust,” said ACI Jet parts manager Kari Mobley.