What does EWIS mean?
Posted by Clare McGarrey on June 18, 2019
In the aviation industry, we sure LOVE using acronyms. It doesn’t matter if the aircraft is for military or commercial application, we LOVE our acronyms. Lately, I have noticed more and more references to the acronym EWIS. So, what does EWIS mean? EWIS is an acronym for Electrical Wiring InterConnect System or Electrical Wiring InterConnection … Continue reading “What does EWIS mean?”
What Is An Airworthiness Certificate?
Posted by Joe Marler on February 12, 2019
Let’s start off with a quiz. Please answer the following question: Is an Airworthiness Certificate: (A) like a Driver’s License, where it is an official document issued to a person authorized to fly an airplane (B) an official document issued to an aircraft If you answered (A), you would be wrong. Sorry. That’s called a … Continue reading “What Is An Airworthiness Certificate?”
What is Aircraft Registration?
Posted by Michael Janney on January 15, 2019
An aircraft registration is an alpha-numeric string marked prominently on the exterior surface of all civil aircraft. The aircraft registration code must also appear on the aircraft’s Certificate of Registration. Military aircraft use a slightly different version called a “Tail Number”. When we perform an aircraft rewire for a civil fixed or rotary wing aircraft, … Continue reading “What is Aircraft Registration?”
Topics: Blog, Certification, Civil Aviation, Commercial Aviation, FAA, How Built, Purpose, Regulation, Standard, Technology
How Are Wiring Harnesses Built?
Posted by John Ashour on October 25, 2016
In the past year, InterConnect Wiring released a blog entitled “Why Do Aircraft Have Wiring Harnesses?“ and another blog entitled “What is a Wiring Harness?”. Based on these two blogs a reader should know what they are and why they exist but one aspect remains; how are they built? Although they can range in size … Continue reading “How Are Wiring Harnesses Built?”
Topics: Blog, Harness Assembly, How Built, Wiring Harnesses
