Parts / Garmin avionics
Michigan Aviation is an authorized Garmin service center at Oakland County International Airport (KPTK) in Waterford, Michigan. We troubleshoot Garmin equipment, coordinate repairs and exchange units for failed units, and source installation parts with documentation through our parts team.
What We Can Help With
Systems
Retrofit flight displays for piston and turbine panels, often upgraded a screen at a time.
Garmin’s newest integrated flight display system for Class I/II and experimental aircraft.
Touchscreen displays widely installed in piston singles, with a large installed base to support.
Digital autopilots whose servos, mounts and harnesses are common sourcing requests.
Adapters that bridge legacy equipment into Garmin displays, and occasionally need software attention.
Process
We verify the unit itself has failed rather than its wiring, connectors or configuration, so you are not shipping a serviceable box.
Once the fault is confirmed, we coordinate a repair or an exchange unit and the paperwork that comes with it.
The replacement is installed, configured to your aircraft and tested, including any software or database loads it needs.
Exchange programs expect the failed unit back. We handle the core return so the exchange closes out cleanly.
Timing depends on the unit and on availability. We confirm it with you once the unit is diagnosed, rather than quoting a turnaround before we know what failed.
Before You Buy
Equipment bought through authorized channels arrives with the paperwork and support path an installation depends on. The surplus market can be cheaper, but it shifts the burden of proving airworthiness onto you and your shop.
Ask for traceability paperwork, including an FAA Form 8130-3 where applicable. Used units also raise serial number and software unlock issues: a box can be physically sound and still be locked to a previous aircraft or short of the software entitlements your panel needs. Warranty coverage generally depends on authorized installation, so confirm current terms with Garmin before you commit to a used unit.
The FAA's Suspected Unapproved Parts program explains what to watch for, and our guide to verifying used aircraft parts walks through the documentation we look for before anything goes on an aircraft.
FAQ
Michigan Aviation at KPTK in Waterford, Michigan is an authorized Garmin service center. Our avionics team troubleshoots Garmin equipment, coordinates repairs and exchange units for failed units, and sources installation parts with documentation through our parts team.
Usually, yes. We diagnose the fault on the aircraft first to confirm the unit itself has failed, then coordinate a repair or an exchange unit. Timing depends on the specific unit and its availability, and we confirm it once the unit is diagnosed.
It can be, but it carries real risk. Used units may arrive without traceability paperwork, may be serial-number locked, or may need software unlocks. Ask for FAA Form 8130-3 where applicable, and note that warranty coverage generally depends on authorized installation. Confirm current terms with Garmin.
It depends on whether the part is in stock or has to be ordered. We confirm availability once we know the part number and the aircraft it is going into. Some items are already on our shelves; others come through our OEM and vendor relationships.
Tell us the unit, the symptom and the aircraft. We will confirm the fault, then sort out the repair, exchange or part.