www.PSFmagazine.com | December 2017 | 17 Decades of progress from simple monochrome models to the colorful and highly versatile touchscreen G3X shown here. product line has expanded greatly over the years, allowing us to develop new markets for Garmin. This incredible milestone doesn’ t even include the hundreds of thousands of portable and other non-certified products that our customers use every day. On behalf of Garmin, I wish to express my utmost gratitude to our loyal customers, our dealers and the aircraft manufacturers all around the globe, who have helped us to accomplish such a tremendous achievement in Garmin’s history.” Established by co-founders Gary Burrell and Dr. Min Kao —Gar’ and Min, hence the company name — in 1989 in Lenexa, Kansas, Garmin was founded with its core roots in aviation. Today, the central U.S. corporation has evolved into five business segments with more than 11,000 employees around the globe. “From a single product,” said Garmin, “the evolution of our avionics solutions has grown to serve multiple segments within the aviation industry, including general aviation, business aviation, helicopter, experimental amateur-built (eab), defense and air transport.” I’m sure Garmin meant to include lsa in that roster but many recent product releases by the company show it is pursuing the high-end avionics market aggressively. In the lsa space the G3X Touch and Garmin 796 are the most popular devices with many supporting items benefiting the Garmin ecosystem of avionics. Congratulations to both Van’s Aircraft and Garmin. We are lucky both companies are involved in the kind of aviation enjoyed by sport and recreational pilots. Where do readers of General Aviation News live? To close, I thought I’d again reference my friends from General Aviation News to show you their recently-offered map of where their readers are located. I submit to this Washington-state-based publication every month and know they provide a journal read enthusiastically by tens of thousands of pilots. As proof of their success at transitioning from only newsprint to electronic communication, GA News can boast the largest FaceBook following (around 350,000!) of any aviation publication or organization. Great job publisher Ben Sclair and team mates! Subscribe to GA News and you can also receive their free The Pulse of Aviation e-newsletter.
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