http://www.narco-avionics.com/


"Due to circumstances beyond our control, we regret to inform you that after over 65 years in business, Narco Avionics, Inc. has closed. A trustee will be appointed shortly to oversee liquidation of assets and assure return of Customer's property, such as Customer's Radios sent to Narco for service, as soon as possible. We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience this causes and thank all loyal Narco Customers, around the world, for their loyalty over all of these years! Please monitor this web site as informational updates will be provided as soon as possible."





Sold my old AT-50 a few years back. It never got along with my Class B base of operation.

Kinda sad-

HOLY CRAP... i just got my comm unit fixed a few months back-glad I did it when I did-I'd be screwed

FLYNAKD wrote:HOLY CRAP...

About sums it up. Sad to see how many companies are no longer able to exist.

Yes you have Bendix/King & Garmin the only 2 games in town. Who's gonna take over who?

Glidergeek wrote:Who's gonna take over who?

Me, as soon as I find millions...I'm moving to China and buying all the aviation companies I can. I just hope no one has beaten me to it

Narco hasn't been a player in the avionics world for at least 20 and maybe 30 years. They haven't come out with ANYthing new in decades. You can't stay in business just fixing the old stuff that's broke, and not advance.

If there is ANYthing in aviation that has progressed, it's avionics. And, Narco dropped the ball a LONG time ago.

Too bad, but what would you expect?

As to Bendix King and Garmin, where do you think Garmin came from? Two frustrated engineers working for Bendix King couldn't get B/K to enter the panel mount GPS world.....they quit, built a factory right across the road from Bendix King and started Garmin. Good on them.

If you aren't progressing, you're just taking up space.

MTV

Wait, Narco was still in business?

What MTV said. Narco hasn't really been around for the last 30 years. They were the hot ticket back in the 60's and early 70's. Too bad. Maybe China will buy them and start producing something modern like the "Omingator with Whistle Stop Tuning!!!"

FLYNAKD wrote:HOLY CRAP... i just got my comm unit fixed a few months back-glad I did it when I did-I'd be screwed

You can always buy one of the TKM Michel slide-in replacements for the Narco nav-coms. I've got one in my panel, it's pretty old, had it refurbed at the TKM factory a couple years ago, cost me just $150 flat rate rebuild.

You can buy a brand new TKM for around $1,700 give or take - less than half the cost of the Bendix-King or Garmin nav-coms.

I have a pair of Narco "Cessna replacements", which I bought new 7 years ago, which just slipped into the panel where the old and outdated 360 channel Cessna radios were. They've worked well, other than when they have heated up after a long, long day of flying, when some of the elements of the displays have gone blank. Most of that issue was solved with an avionics fan installation about 3 years ago.

Too bad that Narco has died. They may not have been state of the art in more recent years, but they built good basic avionics for a long, long time.

Cary

I had a Narco 120/20 comm in my 172 and I never had any complaints. It was old and simple (kind of like me) but I liked it. I guess helicopter pilots like the 120/20's because they had 20 watt output instead of the 8. Thought about keeping it but glad I didn't now.