BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 16 Jun 2025, 16:32

For sale is a Garmin 480/Apollo CNX80 GPS/WAAS/NAV/Com with Tray, rack and connectors. Screen in good shape.

$2,900 no trades.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 30 Jun 2025, 11:52

Price drop.

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This is a smoking good deal at the new asking price particularly when you gauge it against the capability. It was my choice a few years ago and I paid a lot more.

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I love mine too!

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The whole last Apollo series, CNX-80, SL30 & MX-20 were way ahead of their time. They clearly had done the headwork and they were first out of the box with WAAS capability. It was a very cool set up in 2018, and when you consider this was done in 2002-03, and introduced in 2004, it's even more impressive.

Had Garmin not purchased them, I'm sure they would have followed up with similarly very cool stuff.

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Username Protected wrote:

The whole last Apollo series, CNX-80, SL30 & MX-20 were way ahead of their time. They clearly had done the headwork and they were first out of the box with WAAS capability. It was a very cool set up in 2018, and when you consider this was done in 2002-03, and introduced in 2004, it's even more impressive.

Had Garmin not purchased them, I'm sure they would have followed up with similarly very cool stuff.

Hands down, the Apollo CNX80 was the most advanced and capable GPS navcom available in its day. It's been surpassed by the much newer GTN and IFD boxes but not by much. AFaIK, Apollo's main problem was insufficient capital resources, if they'd been solvent the CNX80's successor would probably still be the best navcom today.

FS: Garmin GNS 480/ Apollo CNX 80