Seems that Ameri-King lost their TSO on everything.
See here.
And the FAA is checking if their past products have been manufactured according to their TSO.
Ouch. I wouldn’t want to be on the board of directors!
Their ELTs have had a pretty dreadful reputation. I bought one recently that barely lasted a year.
I see that their web-site is suspended. I won’t miss them is they don’t survive this episode.
Dave_Phillips wrote:
Ouch. I wouldn’t want to be on the board of directors!
Hah ! There’s no Board – this is a very small family run business. The owner is actually a Vietnamese immigrant that barely speaks English.
They run a shoddy shop, not surprised the FAA put the binders on them.
Legendary shitty company with useless products and a borderline criminal owner. Good riddance. FAA did the right thing for once.
This makes me think of te old adage: Were there’s smoke, there’s fire !
I fitted the power step up ( 12 to 28 VDC) from America-King and had years of faultless service from it, as another guy I know has had with a panel lighting control unit.
The problems seem to have started with the ELT units that seem to be about as reliable as a second hand lawnmower……. The last thing you need from an ELT !
It makes you wonder what these people have been thinking, it can’t be easy to get an FAA manufacturing approval and to throw it away for a few shoddy parts is just stupid.
There is no love lost with them. In one of the very few cases, I am cheering for the FAA. Ameri-King made junk and had absolutely zero product support. Hopefully good riddance.