Abstract: An LED backlight system for dual mode operation with an NVIS system which utilizes non-edge lit night mode LED and a thermal conduction path from the day mode array of LEDS to a rearward disposed heat sink which cross the night mode array of LEDS. The system includes first and second LED arrays, the second array being located behind the first array. Light from the second LED array pass through a plurality of apertures located on the circuit card supporting the first array.

Abstract: An improved mounting and carrying assembly for avionics displays including a swing handle with edge mounted sliding spring latches thereon for cooperating with holding pins disposed on a side of the display bezel that is not the front or viewing side.

Abstract: An apparatus for installing, at the front end of an instrument panel, an aircraft instrument having a rectangular chassis. The installation occurs by advancing a screw through a corner adaptor, into the instrument. The adaptors are attached to the periphery of a rectangular hole in the instrument panel, after the instrument has been inserted therethrough, so as to create an octagonal hole as is typically found in instrument panels. The corner adaptors are made up of a first plate and a second plate having a spacer region which is slightly narrower than the thickness of the instrument panel. When a screw is inserted through the first plate and the second plate, they are held together and adhere to the instrument panel which is inserted therein.