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Cabin Fire Responsible For Grounding Of SF50 Fleet
A cabin fire in a Cirrus SF50 Vision personal jet caused a Service Bulletin to be issued resulting in the grounding of all in-service aircraft of the type at the time. The mandatory service bulletin was issued by Cirrus themselves but by the 14th of February the U.S-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued an emergency airworthiness directive...
First Gulfstream G700 Takes Off
N700GA is the registration of the first G700 of the Gulfstream G700 flight test program to take to the skies. The first flight happened on the 14th of February and it stayed aloft for around 2 hours and 32 minutes. This is the first of five flight test articles. All five have been built already and Gulfstream is looking ahead to rigourous testing of these airframes to satisfy the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other major regulatory bodies...
Many Staple Names Skip 2020 Singapore Air Show
The 2020 edition of the Singapore Air Show started on the 11th of this month and is continuing through to the 16th. However, many of the big, staple names in business aviation that you would have normally expected to have seen displaying their products opted to skip this edition's show. The Coronavirus (covid-19) is the reason for many exhibitors not displaying and even if they are present at the convention center it is simply that...
2020 Shaping Up To Be Record Year For Bombardier
With Bombardier fully selling off its remaining stake in their former CSeries program to Airbus, they can now focus more squarely on their bizjet lineup that consist of Learjet, Globals and Challengers. Particularly of note is their Global line with its flagship, the Global 7500. This aircraft is still in its infancy when it comes to ramping up production after entry into service and because of this, Bombardier is likely to have a great year regarding deliveries. They are set to outpace 2019 delivery output by the end of this year. Last year Bombardier delivered 142 bizjets and are predicting 154 by the end of 2020...
300th TBM 900 Series Aircraft Delivered By Daher
Daher Socata has highlighted the delivery of the 300th TBM 900 series very fast turboprop. The landmark aircraft has gone to a long-time customer which is a couple of a family who have purchased TBM aircraft over the last 20 years. The aircraft is also adorned in a special livery which is usually done for landmark aircraft. The very fast turboprop has gold and white accents along with a very special red carnation which is special to the owner...
Pilatus Concludes PC-24 Rough Strip Certification
Swiss airframer Pilatus Aircraft announced that it has successfully concluded rough-field certification campaign. Rough-field operations under the certification is grass, wet earth and snow. Of course back in 2018 the aircraft was certified to operate on gravel as well as dry sand. Put all together and it puts the PC-24 in a class of its own in terms of operating from a myriad of unproven surfaces. That is partly what gives it such broad appeal to a number of customers like the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) that may have to operate from some of these types of strips given the nature of their work...
Garmin G1000NXi Upgrades On Phenom 100s Start
With approval granted for the Garmin G1000 NXi being suitable as an upgrade for the factory-fitted Prodigy Flight Deck of the Embraer Phenom 100, retrofits have already started. Eagle Creek Aviation says they have started the upgrades in Phenom 100s already. Eagle Creek Aviation has past experience working with Phenom 100s in terms of maintenance and avionics work. Over the last year, the company has completed sixteen 120-month / 10-year inspections on Phenom 100 aircraft and the first two 10-year inspections on Phenom 300s, while accomplishing the landing gear overhauls due at the same interval...
Gulfstream G700 Starts World Tour
American airframer Gulfstream is putting all of its energy into their new G700 flagship. The aircraft was announced as expected at last year's NBAA-BACE show and now a full-size mockup of the aircraft is expected to take a tour, not around the country but around the world. Expect to see the mockup in Monterey, California, Palm Beach, Florida and Savannah before leaving for Switzerland, UK and France...
HALO Over America Tour Kicks Off For Piper M600 SLS
All Piper Dealer-partners in the United States will be seeing the Piper M600 SLS HALO aircraft as the company sends a HALO Safety System including Garmin Autoland M600 SLS on a Demo Tour nationwide. The tour starts in early February and is expected to run for the next two months. The stops include, Des Moines Flying Service (DSM) in Des Moines, IA, Kansas, Texas, the Northeast, mid-Altantic and Southeast states followed by multiple stops through the Southwest, California and the Pacific Northwest...
Wisk Cora eVTOL To Start Tests With Real Passengers
The latest development with Wisk's Cora eVTOL is that they are looking to commence testing with real passengers. Many of the eVTOLs experimental aircraft are testing the aircraft but not with actual live payload in it. Recently the New Zealand Government and Wisk signed a MoU (memorandum of understanding). All of this is still fresh and there is no word on how many passengers the aircraft will be tested with or even when the live passenger trials will begin...
Wright Electric Goes Green
The Wright Plane, Right Now...
Wright Electric announced today the start of its electric propulsion development program for its flagship 186 seat electric aircraft, named Wright 1. In order to achieve the commercial flight capability of the Wright 1, a 186 seat electric aircraft, Wright is engineering electrical systems at the megawatt scale by building a 1.5 MW electric motor and inverter at 3 kilovolts. These components will form the powerplant of Wright’s revolutionary Wright 1 aircraft and pave the way for a future of zero emissions flight worldwide...The Wright Plane, Right Now...
Air Ambulance Role For Learjet 75
The newest iteration of the Learjet 75 by Bombardier - the 75 Liberty- is generally thought of as an executive aircraft and that is correct, it will mostly be used in executive roles. However, Bombardier recently received an order for two of these aircraft which will be used in the Air Ambulance role...
Embraer Phenom 300E Upgraded; Fastest Single-Pilot Jet
Embraer announced today the new enhancements to its already very-well received Phenom 300 series, the Phenom 300E. Many of the enhancements are on the interior but also to the performance of the aircraft. In fact, the Phenom 300E is now the first single-piloted jet to reach Mach 0.80...
Cessna Citation Longitude EIS In Time For Last Quarter Boost
The first NetJets bound Cessna Citation Longitude that was delivered to fractional owenership operator in late 2019 but Textron Aviation/Cessna's delivery figures looked much better in the last quarter of 2019 thanks to at least 12 Longitudes being shipped in that quarter. Overall Cessna delivered 71 executive jets to customers in the fourth quarter which was better than the 63 in Q4 of 2018...
Gulfstrean Posts Astounding 2019 Performance
Gulfstream posted the second best quarter ever which translated as the best quarter in ten years for the General Dynamics company. This is the last quarter of 2019 we are talking about and it represented good for the executive aircraft manufacturer. the fourth quarter sales rose by approximately 54 percent. 147 shipments of business jets were made in 2019 which were broken down into 114 large cabin and 33 midsize cabin aircraft which surpassed the delivery guidance by two aircraft...
Stratos 716X Development Well Underway
Another Very Light Jet (VLJ) that is in development at the moment and quietly so is the Stratos 716X. This aircraft has been steadily moving forward with its development having completed load-testing and now in the phas of assembling the first working aircraft prototype for flight testing. The first flight is carded for the second-half of 2020. It is essentially a slightly larger version of the Stratos 714 'proof-of-concept'. The Stratos 716X is wider in the cabin and will seat six in its carbon fiber structure...
All-Electric Eviation Alice Suffers A Fire
It is unclear the extent of the damage to the first Eviation Alice all-electric prototype aircraft due to a ground based fire. It appears that the fire broke out during ground testing at the Prescott Regional Airport in Arizona. The fire is said to have been caused by a fault with a ground based battery system that happened on January 22nd...
Early 2021 For SyberJet SJ30i Deliveries To Commence
It looks as though SyberJet is pressing ahead with the work they have to do in relation to the newest iteration of their SyberJet, the SJ30i or version 2.0...
Boom Supersonic Joins Flight Research For XB-1 Flight Tests
Boom Supersonic is heating up the supersonic race tangibly. Now they have joined forces with Flight Research (FRI) which is a US training support and services company. They will work with them to test the Boom Supersonic's XB-1 Flight demonstrator in the supersonic corridor of the Mojave Desert. Boom is using the so-called XB-1 as a scaled-down version of the final aircraft which will be much larger and called Overture...
Learjet 70/75 Now Able To Have G5000 Upgrade
The Learjet 70/75 is now able to have its flight deck upgraded to the Garmin G5000 suite thanks to certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). New Learjet 70 and 75s will come with the G5000 from the factory but those that are in service already can have it as a retrofit/upgrade. This will naturally come as standard for the newest announced iteration of the 75, the 75 Liberty...
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