Diehl Aviation achieves listing as approved BFE supplier by Boeing
Diehl Aviation’s cabin interiors products are now available to airline customers directly.
For Boeing platforms Diehl Aviation offers several solutions such as customized stowage compartments as well as front row monuments. This also includes the Stowalley, a versatile cabin monument, which allows, for example, the fast and easy conversion from a dry galley to a coat closet. Source | Diehl Aviation
Diehl Aviation (Laupheim, Germany) announced on August 17 that it has received approval by Boeing (Chicago, Ill., U.S.) to offer miscellaneous monuments classified under Buyer-Furnished-Equipment (BFE) products to airlines for installation on Boeing airplanes. BFE products are cabin interiors elements that airlines procure directly from the parts manufacturers, such as Diehl Aviation, for installation on newly-built aircraft at the aircraft manufacturer’s final assembly line. Diehl Aviation says this marks a major milestone for the company in its collaboration with Boeing to offer joint solutions for airline customers.
This achievement is said to follow Diehl Aviation’s collaboration with the aircraft manufacturer during Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator flight test program in 2019, where one area of testing was Diehl Aviation’s capabilities related to cabin monument applications.
In addition, Diehl Aviation says it has miscellaneous monuments for cabin interiors installation — such as front row monuments and bar units — in its portfolio, all of which are typically considered as BFE products. For decades, notes the company, Diehl Aviation has already supplied BFE solutions to airlines for installation on aircraft from other manufacturers. The approved listing by Boeing will now provide new market access to airlines that are in the process of adding new Boeing aircraft to their fleet.
In addition to the approved listing and its supplying of cabin interiors and aircraft system parts, Diehl Aviation notes the other services it provides, via its representations at Boeing’s final assembly lines in Everett, Wash., U.S., and North Charleston, S.C., U.S. as well as after-sales services via a Customer Services Center (CSC) for the Americas based in Sterrett, Ala., U.S.
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