Press Release

Issued by AVIC Cabin Systems.

August 28, 2013

Iacobucci HF vip seats have just been delivered to New Zealand at Altitude Aerospace Interiors's completion centre. The seats were selected to be installed on board the HIKO BBJ project. Designed and developed to meet business aviation market requirements, the vip seats were manufactured with different features from the crew rest, the vip and the guest area of the cabin. Following intensive research on all the materials and structure, Iacobucci HF has created a product with maximum comfort and perfect design, meeting the needs of Altitude Aerospace's high-end customer.

The lightness, high comfort, quality of the aluminium structure and accuracy of the technical characteristics led Altitude to choose Iacobucci HF vip seats. Iacobucci HF delivered sixteen vip seats for the crew rest, guest lounge, vip lounge and vip stateroom of the BBJ airframe with an vip interior.

All the seats were developed with a lever-type leg-rest and backrest control, flex-wing headrest, full lie-flat configuration, single lever track and swivel control. Comfort is also enhanced by a heel kick foot-rest, a thin bar flush with the leg-rest, extending telescopically as the leg-rest is deployed, for a total additional extension of 3”. All seats, except those of the vip stateroom, have a wide in-arm table installed in the right armrest, manufactured to guarantee maximum stability in flight.The mechanical 360° swivel enhances the useful space into the cabin also thanks to the lateral, forward and backward in base sliding.

Soft coating leather materials are being supplied by Perrone Aerospace leather, with light and medium colour tones in two different shades: Kaolin leather for the crew rest and guest zone and Sumo leather for the vip area. The choice of the foam is based on ergonomic standards, to allow a more practical and comfortable use to those who sit. Seats are designed to achieve the highest comfort possible, offering all passengers a full lie-flat recline. The three middle seats in the guest lounge area are equipped with a PCU switch panel concealed by an upholstered flip-up lid incorporated into the arm-rest structure. They are also developed with a receptacle for an in-arm monitor video plug and play and an audio jack for headphones.

Two different dimensions in between armrest (21” & 23”) and two different armrest width (2,5” & 3,5”) characterize the seats according to their positioning on board the aircraft, from guest lounge to vip stateroom.