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Surf Air Mobility Orders 150 Caravan EXs; Convert To Hybrid-Electric
A rather large order has come in to Textron Aviation for up to 150 Cessna Grand Caravan EX single engine turboprop aircraft. The order is really broken down into 100 firm orders and options for 50 more if exercised. The order is from Surf Air Mobility and the company plans to take these stock aircraft and convert them to hybrid-electric. Yes this will involve removing the factory installed Pratt and Whitney PT6 with hybrid-electric systems from around 2024...
Rheinland Air Service Orders Five eFlyer 800 All-Electric Aircraft
Bye Aerospace announced that they have received an order as well as the required deposit from Rheinland Air Service (RAS) for at least five (5) eFlyer 800 aircraft. What is interesting is that into the future RAS will be MRO support to eFlyer800 aircraft in Central Europe. They will also become a reseller of eFlyer800 aircraft in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for Bye Aerospace...
First HondaJet ELITE S Delivered
The first HondaJet ELITE S has been delivered to an undisclosed customer. Back in May, the Honda Aircraft Company announced the HondaJet ELITE S, the upgraded Hondajet in its third iteration since originally being launched. The registration is N712LV on the new plane and it features an ice blue and white paint livery...
EASA Certifies Cessna Citation Longitude
The Cessna Citation Longitude has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) which naturally now allows the Textron branded company to make deliveries into Europe. The Longitude is Cessna's largest Citation model executive jet in production. It would have been superseded in the future by the Citation Hemisphere but that program got cancelled during its development...
All-Electric ES-19 Gains Traction With United Order
United Airlines is back in the news once again after signing and announcing an agreement to purchase all-electric ES-19 turboprops. Not too long ago the airline shocked the world after announcing the order for a significant number of BOOM supersonic aircraft. Now the airline is going in the other direction instead of supersonic, they are going green and quiet. Heart Aerospace is the name behind the ES-19 aircraft and as the model name suggests, it will be a 19-seat shorter-range regional aircraft...
Embraer Delivers First Porsche Collab Phenom 300E
At the end of June, Embraer announced that it delivered the first limited-edition Phenom 300E aircraft—part of the Duet collaboration with Porsche—to an undisclosed customer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The aircraft was delivered at Embraer’s state-of-the-art Global Customer Center in Melbourne, Florida. This very limited edition offer saw pairing the fastest and longest-ranged single-pilot certified jet with the gold standard in production sports cars, the Porsche 911 Turbo S...
Final Commercial G550 Delivered By Gulfstream
Gulfstream has completed and delivered the final commercial G550 to an international customer. Last year the airframer announced that they were going to deliver the last available commercial G550. The G550 has been in production for nearly two decades with the last specimen taking the worldwide fleet to over 600 active aircraft. The award-winning G550 entered service in 2003 as the launch platform for the Gulfstream PlaneView™ flight deck...
The PC-24 Being Upgraded By Pilatus
With other airframers offering upgrades or slightly different iterations to their best-selling jets, Swiss manufacturer Pilatus is upgrading the PC-24 super versatile jet. According to the airframer based on customer feedback from over 50,000 hours of fleet operations, Pilatus has incorporated numerous new features into Super Versatile Jets which come off the production line from this year onward. Existing owners and operators of the PC-24 need not to worry as the upgrades will be available. The upgrades are centered around, passenger experience, avionics and so on...
Wireless Cabin Management System Unveiled
At the Aircraft Electronics Association convention in Dallas last week Cabin Management Solutions unveiled its new CMS Evolve cabin management and in-flight entertainment system. The facet about the CMS Evolve system is that it is completely wireless. There is a patented wireless technology that allows the system to communicate through interior furnishings and products throughout the interior. This complete system is already STC'd on a Dassault Falcon 900. The next approval they are going for is on the Gulfstream G550...
ACJ & Philips Sign On Health Monitoring Systems Equipment On ACJs
As part of its continuous customer care approach and the excellent connectivity on-board the ACJ aircraft, this new agreement will enable instant access to uniquely comprehensive in-air medical care supported by the latest technology for ACJ clientele. "We are pleased to partner with Philips in offering our customers state of the art inflight medical care. This is an enhancement of our customer services portfolio that our ACJ customers will benefit from," said Benoit Defforge, ACJ President...
Citation CJ4 GEN 2 Approved By EASA
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has given approval to Textron for their latest iteration of the Citation CJ4 (GEN 2). With the approval in hand, it now permits Textron to place deliveries into Europe. From this quarter deliveries should start to occur in Europe for the light twin jet. Among the first operators to receive the Cessna Citation GEN 2 in Europe will be Geneva-based charter operator DALaviation Switzerland...
Electra Aero Signs Contract With U.S Air Force
Electra Aero today announced that it has signed a contract with the United States Air Force. The contract is to strengthen advanced air mobility markets through the development of hybrid-electric propulsion systems for electric ultra-short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft. "Electra is thrilled to be working in tandem with the U.S. Air Force and its innovative Agility Prime team to accelerate the tech transition of eSTOL into the commercial marketplace...
JETIT & JETCLUB Are Launch Customers For eFlyer 800
With Bye Aerospace unveiling its design for a 8-seat all-electric aircraft called the eFlyer 800 earlier this year, it stirred significant interest as well as debate with what traditional turboprops it will be competing with in the future. The eFlyer 800 will seat 7 passengers plus a pilot -hence the 8 seats- and fly them 500 nautical miles with estimated 45 min IFR reserves. The specs are all estimates at this stage but the figures are promising given this aircraft will emit very few pollutants while operating...
Interior Concepts Revealed For Airlander 10
By now you should be familiar with the Airlander 10 which is this massive airship being developed by Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV). To this stage despite the idea of a passenger airship as well as testing on the flight article we have not seen any recent interior concepts or renderings...until now. Hybrid Air Vehicles released a slew of recent interior renderings suggesting what the interior of the airship could be like...
Raisbeck Drag-Reducing System For Cessna 208B Caravan
Raisbeck Engineering has been working on a Drag-reducing system for the Cessna 208B Caravan -which carries the cargo pod beneath the fuselage-. The new system has completed pre-certification tests and is likely to be awarded its STC by August, 2021. With this new system, two aerodynamic strakes have been added to the aft of the cargo pod while the forward section gains a composite forward fairing to improve the aerodynamics and thus decrease drag and increase fuel efficiency...
Another Avanti EVO order For U.S Customer
You might remember JF wrote an article back in September 2020 on a surprise order from the United States for an Avanti EVO. The order came from Mid-South Service Inc and you can read more on that at the following link. https://www.jetforums.net/threads/n...avanti-evo-order-from-the-united-states.3610/ . This time however, there is a new order from another U.S based customer, US investment company Off The Chain Capital...
Vertical Aerospace Gets Lift From Virgin Atlantic Partnership
UK eVTOL entity Vertical Aerospace has been given a vital boost with a partnership being announced between them and Virgin Atlantic. The partnership does of course entail the purchase of many of the company's VA-X4 eVTOL UAM aircraft...more on that later in the article. The aircraft is said to meet the stringent requirements of the CAA and EASA. With a flat out top speed of 202 mph the VA-X4 will be a nimble craft carrying up to four passengers and the pilot 100 plus miles. It is all electric, therefore no emissions as well as a low noise profile overall...
Embraer Signs First Phenom 300MED
Embraer has signed the first Phenom 300MED variant. You might remember JF alerting you to the Phenom 300 medevac STC that was in the works last year. https://www.jetforums.net/threads/news-embraer-phenom-300-medevac.3552/ . The airframer now has an actual contract for the first example and the launch customer is GrandView Aviation. "We originally selected the Phenom 300 as our national fleet platform due to its flexibility and high utilization reliability...
United Orders Up To 50 Overture Jets From Boom Supersonic
In an interesting twist, BOOM Supersonic is now the buzz word in the bid to bring a supersonic passenger jet to market. Aerion previously stole the limelight with their development of the AS2 but since their stunning announcement at the end of May that they ceased operations, BOOM Supersonic has moved to the forefront. JF will tell you why shortly but first let's form some context. Aerion was pushing to develop a family of supersonic jets the first was the AS2, a Mach 1.4 aircraft aimed at the business/executive market...
Citation Mustangs Now Benefitting From G1000 NXi Upgrades
Citation Mustangs for a while now have been able to upgrade their original G1000 flight decks to the more up-to-date G1000 NXi platform from Garmin. However, there is additional value being added to the NXi iteration of avionics for the Mustang. Garmin has revealed an STC for the Mustang that adds more features to the NXi upgrade...
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