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Gogo AVANCE L5 Achieves Milestone Flying on 1,000 Business Jets; AVANCE L3 Nears 450 Installations
L5 is Most Successfully Adopted High-Speed Inflight Wi-Fi System in Business Aviation History BROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Gogo Business
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[{"type":"text","content":"L5 is Most Successfully Adopted High-Speed Inflight Wi-Fi System in Business Aviation History\n\n\nBROOMFIELD, Colo., Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Gogo Business Aviation (NASDAQ: GOGO) has once again set a new standard for inflight connectivity with its AVANCE L5 system now installed and flying on 1,000 business jets. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nIt's a milestone Gogo reached in less than three years following the first installation, making it the most successful adoption of any high-speed broadband inflight connectivity system in business aviation history. \nIn addition to the 1,000 L5 installations, Gogo is nearing 450 installations for the AVANCE L3 system. Combined, the nearly 1,500 AVANCE system installations highlights Gogo's leadership in inflight connectivity in business aviation. \n\"Our team hit it out of the park with both the AVANCE L5 and L3 systems,\" said Sergio Aguirre, president of Gogo Business Aviation. \"And what's so exciting to me is that we still have so much opportunity ahead of us.\"\nThe Gogo AVANCE L5 delivers a 4G experience to business aircraft of all types and sizes, from light jets to the largest global business jets, and provides the easiest and most economical upgrade path to Gogo 5G when it launches. From the time AVANCE L5 launched in the fourth quarter of 2017, more than 325,000 flights have taken off with the system onboard, flying more than 420,000 hours and 211 million miles, and users consuming 150 million megabytes of data.\n\"We couldn't have achieved this milestone without the great partnerships we've built over more than 25 years with the market-leading business jet manufacturers, our dealers, and charter and fractional operators,\" Aguirre said. \"Even during the COVID-19 pandemic that has had such a dramatic impact on all of aviation, we continued to see a healthy demand from the market for our AVANCE systems.\"\nGogo and its OEM partners and dealers have also experienced substantial adoption of both AVANCE L5 and L3 on a retrofit basis with more than 200 supplemental type certificate (STC) approvals from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Both L3 and L5 systems are linefit factory options on the majority of business jets of all types and sizes from the world's largest business aircraft manufacturers. \nThe Gogo AVANCE L5 system connects to the Gogo Biz 4G network delivering f...