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Dassault Falcon 8X FalconEye CVS Certified 100-foot Minimums
Today French airframer Dassault Falcon announced that certification is around the corner for the Combined Vision System on the Falcon 8X to allow for bad weather approach down to 100-foot minimum decision heights. The new capability recently completed a joint FAA/EASA certification campaign and will be introduced onto the market before the end of the year...
Global 5500; 6500 Executive Jets Unveiled By Bombardier
Canadian airframer Bombardier announced yesterday that it is adding two new members to its Global family of jets, the Global 5500 and Global 6500. The announcement was strategically made just before the start of the 2018 EBACE event in Geneva, Switzlerland. They also announced the change in name for the Global 7000 which will be called the Global 7500 from now on. This will serve to strengthen the idea that they are likely not placing much emphasis on developing the Global 8000 too...
EBACE Debut For Embraer's Phenom 100EV
Coming up on the 29th of May the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) will take place. Embraer will be at the show with a number of aircraft and one of them will be their smallest offering, the Phenom 100EV. This is the latest iteration of the Phenom 100 original model and it will also be making its debut in Geneva, Switzerland May 29th to 31st...
Gulfstream's Newest Pair Showcase At 2018 EBACE
The 2018 European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE) is going to kick off next week in Geneva and many business aviation airframers will be in attendance as usual. Gulfstream will have their newest pair (G500, G600) on display. The G600 will make its European show debut at EBACE. Of course these two aircraft are not the only products Gulfstream will be showing off. The Super Midsize G280, the long range G550 and the ultra longrange, large cabin G650ER will also grace the static display...
Zunum Aero Gets Deal With JetSuite, Pending FAA Certification
In an announcement made yesterday, JetSuite, a well noted charter operator, said it signed an MoU with Zunum Aero for 100 of their six to twelve seat hybrid electric aircraft once they become FAA certificated. Bare in mind, the Zunum Aero plane is under development but JetSuite is making the bold step to become the launch customer once everything starts to fall into place...
Pipstrel Unveils eVTOL Concept
At the Uber Elevate Summit this week Pipstrel unveiled an eVTOL concept. The head at Pipstrel, Ivo Boscarol said, “Pipistrel is not trying to reinvent the helicopter by giving the vehicle many rotors, but is rather embracing dedicated propulsion solutions for cruise and vertical lift with built-in scaling capability.” To make the concept become a reality, they will be partnering with a Slovenian composite specialist named Elan...
Pilatus Had A Strong And Successful 2017
No doubt the certification and EIS of the Pilatus PC-24 Super Versatile Jet was the crowning achievement for Pilatus Aircraft in 2017. However, looking past that and overall the Swiss company did exceedingly well for the past year. The airframer raked in nearly 1 billion (986 million) Swiss francs worth of aircraft sales. They also managed to deliver 115 aircraft overall. The future looks good too for the company...
Bombardier Extends Global 7000 Range To 7,700 Nautical Miles
The Global 7000 long range, large cabin jet has been given a boost in range as was announced at the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE) last month. The Global 7000's range was bumped up by 300 nautical miles to 7,000 nautical miles overall. Now while this is great news and it is good for this particular model but bare in mind Bombardier still has the Global 8000 in development even though we have not heard much about the 8000 in a while...
Sun Flyer 2 Takes To The Sky
Towards the end of March JetForums.com alerted you of plans for the upcoming first flight of the all-electric Sun Flyer 2 by BYE Aerospace. Since then the electric aircraft has made its initial test flight. The aircraft had registration N502SF. The first flight was initiated on April 10th and took off from Centennial Airport outside Denver. The first flight did not commit to any extreme maneuvers as most first flights...
Bombardier Unveils Global 7000 'Nuage' Executive Seat
This week, Bombardier unveiled something they have been working on behind the scenes. The 'Nuage' seat as it is called is the new seat that will be fitted in the brand new Global 7000. With service entry expected in the second half of 2018, the Bombardier Global 7000 is set to further enhance the executive large cabin and long-haul market. The Nuage seat is part of that with Bombardier suggesting that it is the first full redesign in business aviation seat architecture in 30 years...
Tamarack Aerospace STCs Active Winglets For CJ2; CJ2+
Fresh off the heels of approval for Active Winglets for the CJ3 and CJ3+ Tamarack Aerospace has notched another approval, this time for the CJ2 and CJ2+ and ATLAS Active Winglets. The CJ, CJ1, CJ1+, CJ3, CJ3+ and the M2 have all gained approval from authorities for these winglets. "Active Winglets on the C525 and C525B, and now on the C525A, dramatically enhance the performance of the aircraft," said Nick Guida, Tamarack’s founder...
2023 First Flight Of Aerion AS2 Still On Track
Aerion is still reiterating that the first flight of their AS2 supersonic business jet (SSBJ) is on course for sometime in 2023. If they do, they will become the first company to bring a supersonic business to market in modern times. They are not alone as BOOM Technologies are actively working on their prototype as well. The AS2 was thrown back into the spotlight because the senior VP and chief commercial officer Ernie Edwards was in attendance of the Corporate Jet Investor conference in Dubai a few days ago...
Q1 2018 Sees Deliveries; Revenue Rise For Piper
The first quarter ending March 31, 2018 proved to be good for Piper Aircraft. In a press release today, the company announced that new aircraft deliveries and revenue are up thanks in part to the flagship M600 turboprop. Also, trainer sales are up led by the Archer program. Piper says, the backlog for this platform leads into the third quarter of 2019. First quarter 2018 performance showed a positive trend on the heels of a 27% growth in billings for 2017. Airplane deliveries increased more than 36% to 34 aircraft in the first quarter of 2018, up from 25 airplanes during the first quarter of 2017...
Positive Performance For G500 Ahead Of EIS
With Entry Into Service (EIS) around the corner for the Gulfstream G500, the company has one of the flight test vehicles engaged in full real world testing while embarking on a round-the-world demonstration tour. This tour started in February 2018 and has been carded to visit 12 countries. The world tour is scheduled to be finished in June...
Daher Unveils New TBM 930 Features At Sun 'N Fun
Daher announced its introduction of the latest features and functionality on Garmin G3000 all-glass integrated flight deck configuration for TBM 930s – the high-end model in Daher’s very fast turboprop aircraft family...
Boeing Celebrates Flyaway Of The First BBJ MAX Airplane
While the Boeing 737 MAX program on the commercial side of the line for Boeing is moving apace, the Business Jet line is now coming into its own. The first customer bound Boeing 737 MAX 8 BBJ completed a major milestone recently. It (Boeing) celebrated the fly away of the first BBJ MAX airplane, which extends the range, performance and cabin comforts of the world's most popular business jetliner...
Textron Aviation Suspends Citation Hemisphere Program
The Safran Silvercrest bug has bitten another budding developmental program. This is the same engine manufacturer that has experience consistent issues with the new Silvercrest powerplants that were billed to power a couple new business jets. The Dassault Falcon 5X was to be powered by these engines but due to the persistent issues with the engines Dassault was forced to shut down the 5X program. Since then, they have launched a new Falcon 6X program with Pratt & Whitney PW800s...
Cessna Citation Latitude Debuts At ABACE '18
Textron Aviation's Cessna brand has debuted the Citation Latitude at the ongoing 2018 Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE) in Shanghai, China. The debut is highlighted by recent CAAC certification and subsequent initial deliveries into the Chinese region. Patrons at the show -which started yesterday for the public- have been seeing the aircraft on static display...
Q1 2018 Represents Drop In Deliveries For Embraer
Embraer deliveries continue to drop quarter on quarter. They continued to slide at the end of last year and now the trend is continuing now that the first quarter for 2018 is finished. 25 jets were shipped in the first quarter, this is 14 commercial aircraft and 11 business jets...
Dassault To Highlight Falcon 8X At 2018 ABACE
The 2018 edition of the Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE) is set to kick off tomorrow in Shanghai, China. Dassault Falcon is there and will be highlighting their new Falcon 8X, their newest offering in the wide-cabin, long range market...
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