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PinPoint II Tester Helps Airbase Services Keep Airlines' Systems Flying

GRAND PRAIRIE TEXAS January 30, 2008  - Imagine another flight delay because the in-flight coffee maker or cabin intercom doesn't work? It's happened. With seat-back video, on-demand movies, more audio channels and pending in-flight WiFi access, passenger cabin electronics are rapidly becoming more complex than cockpit systems. Add in the already vital flight systems and communications systems needed to deliver passengers and crews safely to their destinations, airlines and their suppliers face intense pressure to keep their electronics running with virtually no margin for error.

That's why Airbase Services, A Division of Regent Aerospace, the world's largest independent aircraft interior reconfiguration, restoration, refurbishing and refreshing company, purchased a PinPoint II test system from DiagnoSYS Systems. The new test system reduces the time needed to repair or refurbish faulty or outdated electronics on circuit boards controlling on-board communications, in-flight entertainment, galley and avionic systems.

"The PinPoint II brings a level of technology that continues to push our business forward and provides tremendous opportunity in aircraft interior electronics," said Ian Charters, Director, Sales and Marketing, Airbase Services. "It opens up a number of new areas of service that we can offer to our customers that improves our ability to add value, while lowering cost."

Before implementing the PinPoint II tester, technicians in Airbase Services' 130,000-square foot facility swapped good boards for faulty units as a diagnostic tool until they identified the cause of the failure. Since a number of these boards are no longer in production repair/replacement options were becoming a major challenge for turn-time and customer service. Technicians now connect the suspect board to the PinPoint II, run the appropriate Test Program Set (TPS) and get the results within minutes that allow new repairs methods that were previously not available.

Initially, technicians used the PinPoint II in an R&D phase to assess the testers' capabilities and qualify PCBs that would be diagnosed by the system. Using the system this way also provided Airbase Services' technical staff the opportunity to learn how to program the PinPoint II and categorize the failure modes in the replacement inventory stream.

Testing and repairing a control board for the in-flight coffee makers opened Air Services' eyes to possible savings. That operation yielded significant cost savings compared to sending failed boards out for repairs. The company realized a further gain when a good board was rotated back into active inventory in hours instead of weeks.

Energized by its success with the coffee-maker control board, Airbase Services is using the PinPoint II is to find faults in onboard telecoms systems, for which it is the OEM provider. Even though the system is no longer manufactured, it continues to be a staple as an in-flight customer service and aircraft to ground communication that will need continued support for the foreseeable future.

About Regent Aerospace
Regent Aerospace Corporation, headquartered in Valencia, California, is the largest independent aircraft interior reconfiguration, restoration, and refurbishing company in the world. Capabilities include sale, refurbishment, overhaul, and exchange of passenger, crew and flight attendant seats, restraints, galleys, dividers, lavatories, trolleys, coffee makers, warmers, ovens, chillers, avionics, IFE, (D.P.C.U.'s, players, video monitors, telephony, in seat controllers, S.E.B.s), life support/survival equipment (vests, rafts, slides and oxygen), cargo containers, cargo straps, pallets and (ULD).

Component manufacturing is performed at the interior refurbishment facility located in Valencia, CA. Other facilities include Dallas, TX, Indianapolis, IN, Beijing, China and Busan, South Korea with line maintenance servicing offered at LAX, DFW, ORD, EWR, JFK, SJU, MIA with new locations opening soon in Europe and Asia.

About DiagnoSYS Systems, Inc.
DiagnoSYS Systems, Inc. provides a comprehensive range of electronic diagnostic test solutions and dedicated technical services. Our solutions are implemented in some of the most demanding, mission-critical industries such as military, aerospace/avionics, mass transit, banking and general commercial environments.

DiagnoSYS products are designed to meet all levels of diagnostic requirements, from the 'out-of-the-box' FaultFinder PCI card, to the configurable stand-alone PinPoint II In-Circuit Functional Test System, the S500 Scalable Test Solution for Functional Test and the S790 Series High Performance Mixed Signal ATE System.

DiagnoSYS solutions manage end-product obsolescence with a suite of reverse-engineering tools enabling our customers to extend the life cycle of both mission-critical and non-critical electronics. Part of the worldwide DiagnoSYS Group, DiagnoSYS Systems, Inc. is located at 808 North Hoagland Blvd, Kissimmee FL 34741 Tel: 800-788-6219 Fax: 407-846-6416 Internet: www.diagnosys.com/usa e-mail: info@diagnosys-usa.com

Contacts:
DiagnoSYS Systems, Inc. Tim Webb, President, Tel: +1-800-788-6219/+1-407-846-6002,
Fax: +1-407-846-6416, e-mail: twebb@diagnosys-usa.com

Editorial:
Jack Leonard, NAMC - Not Another Marketing Company, Tel: 732-280-8398
Fax: 732-280-8399, e-mail: jleonard@namc-hitech.com

Airbase Services, Inc. Ian Charters, Director Sales and Marketing,
Tel: +1-214-677-9695 ICharters@AirbaseServices.com

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