Bendix/King is getting ready for a money grab at your expense

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The attached PDF is part numbers that Bendix/King is going to stop field service for. This was in an email sent to dealers, with a date of July the 1st of this year.

This is essentially a money grab. They are going to stop people from fixing these things in the field, and force them to send them to the factory (surely for higher prices).

Q: What allows them to do this?

A: The repair station regs.

Any repair station will have binding documentation that says something to the effect of "current service/repair manuals will be used for repairs or overhauls" so all Honeywell has to do is issue an updated repair manual for a KFC autopilot servo stating "NOT FIELD SERVICEABLE CALL THIS NUMBER TO BUY A NEW ONE" and anyone with a repair station certificate is obligated to do so.

tl;dr: Honeywell has decided that there's too much money in the world that they're not getting, so they're going to try to take it. They are of course delusional. No one has been buying their stuff for quite some time. All they will accomplish is killing the value of an airplane with a King autopilot, radios, and HSI in it.

Q: What to do?

There might be people fixing Honeywell stuff with excess parts supplies for awhile, but eventually the parts will dry up.

From an avionics shop owner on BT...

There are 2 bulletins for the dealers. The dealers are instructed to return their LRU stock, return their spare parts AND DESTROY OR RETURN THEIR MANUALS.

So this means, your shop can not so much as bench check and tag the listed units. Let that sink in.

View attachment King repair services.pdf

 

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