This might be a dumb question...

[Palamedes]

I'm very new to the whole general aviation thing so forgive any dumb questions please.

I'm still learning and of course I'm browsing the aircraft sales sites and magazines dreaming.. I noticed that there are quite a lot of older aircraft that are very reasonably priced and it made me wonder;

Can you put modern "glass cockpit" avionics in an older aircraft?

For example; Could you put a G1000 or iEFIS glass cockpit into a a '65 Piper Warrior?

Not saying I would, I'm just wondering if its possible and what the pro's and con's be of doing such a thing?

 

[Jim Logajan]

The MGL iEFIS is legal as a primary instrument replacement only in Experimental and Light Sport Aircraft.

I'm not sure, but one might also be able to buy a plane registered in some other country with presumably looser rules. There is a Dynon in the Piper Tomahawk in this video of a plane in El Salvador, and according to a comment by the video uploader, they also have a C-152 that has a Dynon installed. It might not be considered primary flight instruments, which may be why they are allowed: