July 26, 2004

Garmin® Certifies the GDL 90™ — the First ADS-B Transceiver for GA

OLATHE, Kan./July 26, 2004 — Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today announced that the company’s GDL 90 has received a Supplemental Type Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and a Grant of Equipment Authorization from the Federal Communications Commission. These milestones make the GDL 90 the first TSO C154 Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) certified to support a broad array of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) broadband services.

The GDL 90 transceiver provides General Aviation with the potential benefits of "Free Flight" applications, including broadcast real-time traffic, weather and eventually Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) data. ADS-B is an enabling technology for "Free Flight" — a FAA vision aimed at improving the safe flow of commercial and non-commercial aircraft within the U.S. air-traffic environment.

"The certification of the GDL 90 marks an important step in new levels of aviation safety for the future," said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s director of marketing. "Our design team in Salem has been working closely with the FAA on the development of ADS-B technology and related applications for several years, and we’re coordinating efforts to bring ADS-B products to market in an appropriate manner."

With the completion of the Garmin AT™ acquisition in August 2003, Garmin stepped into a leadership role with the FAA’s Capstone program, a collaboration of government, academia and industry that has been developing and evaluating ADS-B technology in Alaska since 1997.

The GDL 90 is designed as a remote-mounted unit and will transfer information to the Garmin MX20™ multi-function display. The transceiver includes a TSO-C145a WAAS GPS sensor that offers outstanding position accuracy and integrity.

The broadband datalink operates on 978 MHz and is based on the UAT technology developed by the MITRE Corporation for the FAA. The link is capable of data transmission rates in excess of 1 megabit per second, providing the bandwidth to transfer large graphical weather files, TFRs, and traffic in real time. Additional ADS-B benefits that are expected to be developed over time include improvements in separation standards, airport surface navigation, tracking vehicle movements on the airport surface, and asset tracking for fleet operators.

The FAA is beginning to implement ADS-B technology in select areas over the next 18 months through its Safe Flight 21 program. According to the FAA, the agency expects to install more than 30 ground stations along the East Coast and additional stations in Arizona — to improve traffic situational awareness among the large number of aircraft operations associated with Embry Riddle Aeronautical University’s flight training programs in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz. The FAA has also stated that it plans to install stations along the Gulf of Mexico to bring long-anticipated air-traffic control (ATC) services in that region for such applications as rotorcraft landing on oil platforms, and in Alaska to continue its expansion of the ADS-B system throughout much of the state.

The ground stations can track aircraft movement and will eventually be used to provide radar-like traffic separation services. Additionally, these ground stations will broadcast graphical and textual weather information via the FAA’s Flight Information Service (FIS-B), traffic targets being tracked by ATC via the FAA’s Traffic Information Service (TIS-B), and graphical TFR information in real time. The federal government currently plans to offer all of these services free of charge to General Aviation and commercial operators.

The GDL 90 is now available and has a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $7,995. It includes top- and bottom-mount datalink antennae, a WAAS GPS antenna and an installation kit.

Garmin International Inc. is a member of the Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN) group of companies, which designs and manufactures navigation, communication and information devices — most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin is a leader in the general aviation and consumer GPS markets and its products serve aviation, marine, outdoor recreation, automotive, wireless and OEM applications. Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit Garmin's virtual pressroom at www.garmin.com/pressroom or contact the Media Relations department at 913-397-8200. GARMIN is a registered trademark, and Garmin AT, GDL 90 and MX20 are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries.

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This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Garmin Ltd. and its business. Any statements regarding the company’s product introductions and expected product availability dates are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking events discussed in this release may not occur and actual results could differ materially as a result of risk factors affecting Garmin, including (but not limited to) risk factors listed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 27, 2003 filed by Garmin with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission file number 0-31983). A copy of Garmin’s Form 10-K can be downloaded from www.garmin.com/aboutGarmin/invRelations/finReports.html.