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AirVenture 2025 Video: Stratus 4 Portable ADS-B

Portable ADS-B for $849 from Stratus.

Larry Anglisano
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Key Takeaways:

  • Appareo Avionics unveiled its new Stratus 4 portable ADS-B receiver at AirVenture 2025.
  • The Stratus 4 features a digital display and is compatible with a wide array of aviation apps.
  • The new device is priced at $849 and was reviewed by Aviation Consumer Editor in Chief Larry Anglisano.
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AirVenture has always been the show to introduce new cockpit gadgets and at AirVenture 2025, Appareo Avionics brought its latest portable ADS-B receiver, the Stratus 4. It has a digital display, compatibility with a wide variety of aviation apps and a price of $849. Aviation Consumer Editor in Chief Larry Anglisano took a look at the new Stratus 4 with Appareo’s Kris Garberg.

Larry Anglisano

Larry Anglisano is the former Editor in Chief of sister publication Aviation Consumer magazine. He's an active land, sea and glider pilot, and has over 30 years experience as an avionics tech.

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Replies: 3

  1. Avatar for 26981 26981 says:

    Having a device that tells me that there are nine targets out there without showing me where they are is totally useless.
    It’s nothing but an expensive toy.

  2. Five years ago, I had one that blue toothed to my iPad or iPhone both of which had Wings X on it. It was super fantastic. It showed all the taffic around me in real time on the iPad wings X map. It also had AHRS display and could get loads of extra info. I have to assume this one does as much. And I had all this good info while flying around in my '46 non electric Aeronca Chief. I considered it a very best buy. Hope this on can do as much for you.

  3. There is so much about this product I just don’t understand, and I spend all of the time I’m not flying designing products so that I can pay for flying. I hope Appareo sees this and reaches out to me:

    • This is HUGE. In today’s day and age of low power processors there is ZERO reason this needs to be so large.
    • You do NOT need a screen in order to enable firmware updates. This can be done with Bluetooth with all promps on a user’s mobile phone or tablet
    • If anyone is looking at this screen during flight they are looking at the wrong screen
    • With today’s LiPo battery technology and the tens of thousands of charge cycles they support, there is little need for a battery door which drastically complicates tooling for a product like this.
    • I don’t know a single pilot that will care that the side profile looks like an airfoil…and my company’s name is Airfoil Corp :). It’s wasted space, complicates and increases the cost of tooling, and the industrial design can dramatically be improved. What pilots will care about is battery life, size, and cost.
    • Without opening this up, I would place a large bet we could cut the size in half and increase the battery life by a large margin.
    • Appareo - reach out: info@airfoil.co (NOT .com)
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