Skip to content
Start a consult
Aviation

If it works in the air, it works anywhere.

Passenger cabin control, built-in displays, connected services and the backends behind them. Our cabin software flies today on HondaJet and Textron aircraft, built with Heads Up Technologies.

  • HondaJet HA-480 cabin control and PED apps
  • Connected services
  • Textron DIS210, CDM and PED apps
  • Heads Up Technologies

In partnership with the teams behind. Named with their permission.

  • Heads Up Technologies

    Avionics and cabin systems

    A multi-year partnership: backend platforms, mobile applications and connected services across HUT's cabin product line.

  • HondaJet

    Light jets

    HA-480 cabin control and PED apps: passengers run the cabin from their own devices, offline-first over the aircraft's own network.

  • Textron Aviation

    Business and general aviation

    DIS210, CDM and PED apps, including the application behind the DIS210 built-in cabin display, shipped as a line-replaceable unit.

  • Connected services

    Business jet OEM, name withheld

    Telemetry and content backends for cabin products, on links that are metered, intermittent and shared.

In an aircraft you don't get to patch it tomorrow. Smart Owl understood that from the first week: deterministic boot, documented failure modes, and a display that behaves the same on every airframe. They're the outside team we trust with software that ships inside the aircraft.

Andrew BrunsonHeads Up Technologies · HondaJet HA-480 cabin control and PED apps · Textron DIS210, CDM and PED apps

At 41,000 feet there is no restart button.

Observability, graceful degradation, audit-ready data and failure-mode analysis: what aviation demands is what we bring to every product, including the ones that never leave the ground.

What we build for aviation. In the cabin, on the ground and in the cloud.

  • Passenger infotainment and cabin systems

    Cabin control, built-in displays and infotainment that behave the same in every seat and on every airframe in the fleet.

  • Connected aircraft platforms

    Telemetry pipelines, diagnostics ingestion and fleet interfaces that give operators a clear view of every airframe.

  • Crew and operator apps

    Native apps in Swift and Kotlin, or one cross-platform codebase, for passengers, flight crew, ground staff and operators, built to work with no network at all.

  • Cloud and backend platforms

    Observable backends that connect aircraft systems to operators, manufacturers and downstream analytics.

Owl View

The moving map, rebuilt for the cabin.

Our own product: a 3D map of the flight that runs on the aircraft and opens on every passenger's phone and tablet, with no internet at all.

Owl View on a tablet: the right-hand window view on the approach into Aspen at golden hour, Mount Sopris framed by the cabin window
Owl View on a phone: the follow view behind the jet, descending the Roaring Fork valley toward Aspen

Building for the air? Let's talk.

Thirty minutes with the engineers who built cabin software for HondaJet and Textron aircraft.

Discuss your aviation project