Originally Posted by
WR Cage
However there are two subfleets to consider, some 73G and 738 aircraft are dark, therefore they do not have IFE servers, IFR cabling and satellite dishes installed. The total number of fleet types s five (736, 73G, 73G Dark, 738, 738 Dark).
The existing servers, cabling, distribution boxes, dishes and radomes for LiveTV equipped aircraft all have to be de-modded before the installation of the Panasonic system that utilises no components from the LiveTV system. The aircraft skin has to be restored where the original radome was and the new STC applied for the new system with the radome being installed in a different position, this will be common whether the aircraft is dark or not, so there are 3 STCs required in total (736, 73G, 738).