Often, when airlines want to reconfigure an aircraft and install new seats and other furnishings, they consider installing retrofit interiors or bin extensions at the same time. New furnishings often look contemporary and curvilinear while the original interior architecture looks old. As a supplier of IUS and CAP kits, our Interior Architecture team can work with the Integration group to build, install, and certify a new architecture in the aircraft. It will look contemporary, elegant, and may add extra stowage capacity depending on the product line.

If however the airline does not want to refresh the architecture, the reconfiguration program will still require the integrator to plan for and fill in the voids left behind where items were removed. Newly installed or relocated furnishings also require panels and bins to either be modified or replaced with more accommodating form factors. As a result of this, the Integration team designs and produces uniquely sized items that match the look and function of existing architectural parts. In addition to these items, the team also supplies special transition panels and closeout parts that are typically required to finish off areas of the existing architecture.

Integration Support for the Interior Architecture*

• Engineer and supply drawings for the installation or modification of all interior architectural components related to the reconfiguration program
• Design and supply unique “one-off” architectural components with structural parts
• Cap, stow, or remove electrical and plumbing systems that are not currently needed
• Design new layouts for PSUs, and supply necessary spacer panels
• Design, supply, and support the installation of new wire bundles for new PSU/OEU layouts
• Engineer and supply drawings to modify mechanical systems and structures
• Analyze and oversee all electrical modifications, including the power panels
• Analyze and oversee database programming, as well as modifications made to the aircraft communication systems
• Perform structural substantiation through analysis and static testing
• Perform decompression analysis

*Note that we are not limited to the above activities. Reconfiguration programs are very complex and require many more services than can be listed here.