Avcon Overview

Our Business:

The aircraft modification segment, Avcon, modifies business and cargo type aircraft at our facility in Newton, Kansas.  The modifications include aircraft conversion from passenger to freighter configuration, addition of aerial photography capability, stability enhancing modifications for Learjets, and other special mission modifications.

Avcon also provides many custom FAA-approved solutions to corporate business jet and cargo operators.  Our most recent solution is a RVSM package for the Learjet 20 Series and 30 Series airplanes.  RVSM is short for Reduced Vertical Separation Minimums (allowing aircraft to fly closer together in altitude).

We also offer many aerodynamic and stability improvement products for selected business jet aircraft.

Our Customers:

An aircraft operator typically approaches Avcon for custom modifications that may include aerial photography capabilities, conversions to air ambulance, or from passenger to freighter configurations.  To modify aircraft in conpliance with federal regulations, in almost all cases, a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) is required from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Avcon currently holds over 250 STC certificates that allow modifications to be performed in conformity with all FAA safety requirements.

Avcon offers customer specialty modifications on an individual basis. We have a substantial list of regular customers that includes Learjet, Inc., Flight International, Inc., Cessna Aircraft, Beech Aircraft (Raytheon), Boeing, NASA, the United States Air Force, Hawker Pacific, Continental Airlines, and numerous international governments.

Our Products:

In addition to special mission products, Avcon offers many commercial products.  Avcon Fins are a highly recommended retrofit for older Learjets, specifically Models 35 and 36.  The Avcon fins are mounted like the fins of an arrow on the rear of the aircraft.  When installed with Avcon fins, the aircraft exhibit the same aerodynamic stability and improved operating efficiency offered by newer Learjet models.  While enhancing performance, fins allow the aircraft to maintain the outstanding range, speed, and load carrying capabilities that make these planes among the most popular business jets ever manufactured.

Avcon also features FAA certification of an extended baggage door conversion that facilitates loading and unloading of bulky cargo on King Air aircraft.  Call us for additional information about Avcon products.

This is only a brief summary of one of Butler National's fastest growing subsidiaries, one that will continue to bring state-of-the-art modifications to the business aircraft market.