Story ID: 795 ICG EBACE Products.doc
ICG Builds Momentum With New STC Approvals
By: Mark Phelps
Caption: U.S.-based communications group expands its menu of communications systems upgrades
Word Count: 305
  
The International Communications Group (ICG) is here at the EBACE show with news of fresh approvals from EASA and the U.S. FAA. The company (Booth I110) continues to expand its list of supplemental type certificates (STCs), adding EASA approval for a Swift Broadband system modification from Ruag on a Bombardier Global Express. 
  
The modification incorporates ICG’s ERT-120 eRouter, boosting satcom speed. It also includes an upgrade of Rockwell Collins’s SAT-2100/-6100 dual-channel Satcom Swift64, which replaces the original WLU-2100 Wi-Fi access point to the ICG eRouter. “The approval of Ruag’s installation on the Bombardier Global Express by EASA also means that this modification is automatically validated by the U.S. FAA and Transport Canada in accordance with existing bilateral agreements,” said ICG international sales manager Adam Tsakonas.
  
“ICG has continued to build on the pace we established coming out of last year’s EBACE convention,” added ICG chief executive Scott Trainum. “We’ve ramped up our production and aggressively expanded our collaboration on installation and certification projects with a number of partners. These relationships with OEMs and joint certification efforts have accounted for significant growth in the number of airframes operating with ICG’s FOI [FANS-1/A over Iridium] systems during the past year.”
  
As for FAA supplemental type certificates (STCs), the U.S. agency recently approved Comlux’s FOI installation. It uses ICG’s NxtLink ICS-120A or ICS220A hardware on a Bombardier Challenger 601. 
  
Similarly, Duncan Aviation in Lincoln, Nebraska, received a comparable STC for the Falcon 900B trijet, while Chicago Jet Group notched STCs for ICG NxtLink-based systems on Gulfstream/Astra G100s, and Falcon 50s and 900Bs. 
  
The company also is working on STCs for Gulfstream GIIs, GIIIs, GIVs, GVs Falcon 2000s, and a Boeing 767.