Our Story

Safely guiding pilots and their passengers worldwide for over 40 years.

Our History

The company’s journey began when founder, Hubert L. Naimer, formulated the details of a "Master Navigation System", which led to the development of the world's first Flight Management System. Over 40 years later, Universal Avionics has expanded its product line and delivered breakthrough technologies to the industry that offer incredible safety improvements, situational awareness, and operational benefits for operators.

Today, the organization is led by CEO Dror Yahav, an ex-fighter pilot with a vision of how mission-driven technologies can be adapted to help commercial pilots. Universal brings next-generation avionics systems inspired by military applications to the aviation market to optimize how pilots fly and advance the future of flight.

Quick Facts

What We Do: Design, development, manufacture, certification, repair, and support of innovative avionics

Primary Product Lines:
Navigation, Electronic Display, Terrain Awareness, Recorder, Enhanced Flight Vision Systems, and Synthetic Vision Systems for Aerospace Applications.

Primary Markets: Large turbine aircraft, helicopters, and special missions

Headquartered: Tucson, Arizona, USA

CEO: Dror Yahav

Year Founded: 1981

A History of Innovative Firsts

• Multi-Sensor Navigation System
• Scanning DME function
• 80-Minute Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)
• Solid-state CVR
• Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorder (CVFDR) with internal Recorder Independent Power Supply (RIPS)
• Vision-1®, the first Synthetic Vision System (SVS) certified by the FAA
• Class 3 cockpit display for electronic flight charts

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