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Tamarack Completes First Customer LoPresti Upgrade
By: Kerry Lynch
Caption: The LoPresti landing and taxi light kits are optional upgrades that come with Atlas installations on CitationJets at Tamarack’s Sandpoint, Idaho facility.
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Tamarack Aerospace installed its first LoPresti Aviation High-Intensity Discharge (HID) BoomBeam lighting upgrade on a customer CitationJet. The LoPresti landing and taxi light kits are optional upgrades that come with Atlas Active Winglet installations on CitationJets at Tamarack’s Sandpoint, Idaho facility.

“It’s exciting that we’ve partnered with LoPresti to offer this additional enhancement to the aircraft,” said Tamarack president Brian Cox. The Atlas Active Winglet kits include LED anti-collision and navigation lighting, he noted, but added, “We always felt that the aircraft would additionally benefit from replacement of the landing and taxi lights. This new kit from LoPresti is simple to install, doesn’t add time to the Atlas upgrade, and the difference in performance of the lighting is literally like night and day.”

BoomBeam benefits include more light (between three to 15 times more) that is optimized to each aircraft model; reduced electrical load and heat; decreased AOG time for lighting issues; and five-year/5,000-hour warranty, Tamarack said. The lighting increases safety, particularly for “see and be seen” purposes.