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True North lands Sikorsky
By: Harry Weisberger
Caption: Sikorsky Aircraft has selected TrueNorth Avionics’ Simphone airborne telephone systems as OEM standard options on new S-76 series and S-92 helicopters.
Word Count: 109
Sikorsky Aircraft has selected TrueNorth Avionics’ Simphone airborne telephone systems as OEM standard options on new S-76 series and S-92 helicopters. TrueNorth, exhibiting at Booth No. 1671, provides airmobile Iridium and Inmarsat voice, fax and data equipment for general aviation users.The TrueNorth Simphone Chorus airborne telecom system provides two-channel Iridium service plus Inmarsat Swift64, with full capability to access SwiftBroadband when Inmarsat makes that service fully operational in mid-2009 after final repositioning of the I-4 geosynchronous satellites.The Ottawa, Canada company is offering its dual-channel Iridium-only Simphon¯e Prelude radiotelephone for light jets and turboprops at an introductory price of $24,900 effective through year-end. MSRP for the now-available Prelude is $29,950.