{"id":66227,"date":"2018-01-30T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T11:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/faa-approves-first-stc-for-smartskys-4g-lte-network\/"},"modified":"2018-01-30T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T11:22:31","slug":"faa-approves-first-stc-for-smartskys-4g-lte-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/faa-approves-first-stc-for-smartskys-4g-lte-network\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Approves First STC for SmartSky\u2019s 4G LTE Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. <strong>Federal Aviation Administration<\/strong> (FAA) approved the first Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for <strong>SmartSky Networks<\/strong>\u2019 airborne 4G LTE network, awarding it to SmartSky\u2019s manufacturing partner <strong>Avidyne Corporation<\/strong> for installation on the <strong>Cessna<\/strong> Citation Excel. Avidyne CEO Dan Schwinn said he expects to receive parts manufacturer approval soon and that more STCs for other aircraft should follow, which could happen later this year.<\/p>\n<p>SmartSky aims to position its 4G network as a rival to satellite connectivity solutions in terms of speed, but far more cost efficient, functioning similarly to a ground-based wireless network but in the air. The company claims it can set a new performance standard at the industry\u2019s lowest cost per bit.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the network is still being completed. It has been live since 2017, and SmartSky said that 96 percent of planned ground sites have been tested and permitted, but fewer than half are currently deployed or in the final stages of deployment to provide full coverage around the United States. SmartSky expects the \u201cmajority of the network coverage expansion effort currently underway across the continental United States\u201d to be completed later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved the first Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for SmartSky Networks\u2019 airborne 4G LTE network, awarding it to SmartSky\u2019s manufacturing partner Avidyne Corporation for installation on the Cessna Citation Excel. Avidyne CEO Dan Schwinn said he expects to receive parts manufacturer approval soon and that more STCs for other aircraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}