ADS-B Manufacturer Faces Proposed Penalty
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is alleging that a manufacturer of automatic defense surveillance–broadcast (ADS-B) units failed to meet FAA requirements for the devices and misled customers about them. The agency proposed a $3.7 million civil penalty against the manufacturer, NavWorx.
The FAA said in late October that it had told the aviation industry in March 2015 that it was imposing new standards for the global positioning system (GPS) chips in ADS-B transmitters. Aircraft owners face a Jan. 1, 2020, deadline for installing the transmitters.
“Rather than replace the chips in its ADS600-B units, NavWorx knowingly altered the units’ internal software to transmit a code that indicated the units met the new … standard, even though they did not,” the FAA said. “The FAA further alleges that the company subsequently refused to comply with the FAA’s direction to modify the software to transmit an accurat…
