Originally Posted by deice
What's this, the Eclipse sports Garmin GNS430s?
That's because Avidyne let them down with their part of its Avio NG avionics system. Another subcontractor has been brought in to do the job, but in the meantime the aircraft are being delivered with a GPSMap 496! AVWeb have an article about the split
here, and there's more on the 496 connection
here.