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G500 World Tour Starts; 12 Cities Being Visited
The Gulfstream G500 is soon expected to gain certification and entry into service and to drum up support, awareness and hopefully sales, they are taking the G500 on a world demo tour. In fact, they have started already and it is expected to run until June. During this tour the aircraft will visit 12 countries around the world. Of course the aircraft they will be using is a fully outfitted G500 and will demonstrate the cutting-edge and luxurious interior that this model can offer...
Final G450 Delivered By Gulfstream
Gulfstream just announced that it has delivered its final factory-line G450. It is somewhat a sad moment for an executive jet that has been leading in its segment for the last 12 years and for nearly 30 years the GIV series has been stellar. The Gulfstream G500 is set to enter service soon so the void from the now out-of-production G450 will eventually be refilled by the state-of-the-art G500...
Elliott Aviation New ADS-B Solution For Citation Excel; XLS
Elliott Aviation said yesterday that they have completed FAA testing on a new low-cost ADS-B for the Citation Excel and XLS. In addition to the Citation Excel, this STC can be applied to any aircraft with the Honeywell Primus radio package like the Hawker 800A/800XP and Hawker 1000. The STC is fully integrated and requires no modifications to the existing Honeywell equipment and is priced significantly less than the current Honeywell upgrade by 40% or more. It also does not require upgrades to any current Honeywell equipment which can save operators additional cost and downtime...
Aerolíneas Ejecutivas Orders Cessna Citation Latitude Jets
Textron Aviation brand Cessna is celebrating with a recent order from Mexican bizjet company Aerolíneas Ejecutivas (ALE). The company wants three mid-size Cessna Citation Latitude aircraft for their fleet and they will be operated in their fractional ownership arm, MexJet.“The Latitude will bring a winning combination of class-leading cabin comfort, performance and low operating costs to ALE’s fractional customers,” said Lannie O’Bannion, vice president, Sales, Latin America and Caribbean...
Deliveries Surpass Forecast In 2017 For Dassault Falcon
French airframer Dassault Falcon had a little to cheer about last year when they delivered more planes than they forecasted for the year. The company has been going through a tough time with business jet demand and supplier issues which led them to cancel the Falcon 5X program...
Bombardier Global 7000 Progresses; 8000 Doubtful
Canadian airframer Bombardier announced the Global 7000 and 8000 almost in the same breath and the industry was expecting a development and certification program of both of them almost around the same time you would have seen with Embraer and their Legacy 450 and 500 models and even Gulfstream with their G500 and G600 models. The situation has not worked out exactly as planned for Bombardier regarding the 7000 and 8000 Global programs running smoothly together at least...
New Five Year Plan For Piaggio Outlined
Piaggio Aerospace has outlined its plan for the next five years for overall operations. Remember they are also engaged in the defense industry namely with a military variant of the P180 which they call the P.1HH (hammerhead). There is also going to be invigoration of the business aircraft side of things with the P180 Avanti EVO...
Increased Employment At Piper As a Result Of High Aircraft Demand
Piper has seen the largest expansion of its employment role since 2009. The airframer said that it has achieved double-digit growth in deliveries and aircraft revenue for the 2017 period so far. The increase in demand for Piper products and resulting increase in production volume has driven the company headcount to over 900 employees located at the Piper world headquarters in Vero Beach, Florida...
Boeing Business Jets In 2017
Boeing Business Jet's year has not been too bad. Back at the National Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition a few months ago the executive arm of Boeing Commercial said that they had booked 14 orders for business jets at that time. As for the breakdown of those jets signed, the company disclosed the aircraft types. The orders include one 737, four BBJs, three BBJ MAXs, one BBJ 787-8, two BBJ 777-300ERs and three BBJ 747-8s. The orders garnered would account for approximately 2.7 billion dollars...
Textron Aviation Gives Faster Connectivity To Citation X
Textron Aviation has brought faster connectivity to one of the fastest civilian jets currently flying. The Cessna Citation X is the executive jet that Textron Aviation is giving a connectivity upgrade thanks to new STC approval for the Gogo AVANCE L5 connectivity solution...
Polish Pilots Complete Circumnavigation In A Daher Socata TBM 930
An extra ordinary feat was done when two Polish pilots completed a four-week-long circumnavigation of the planet in a Daher Socata TBM 930 fast turboprop. The duo, flew points that took them south of the Equator for most of the journey. The trip amassed 25,831 nautical miles and involved landing in 25 countries with 26 stopovers. Tomek Dudziak and Arjan Bakker were the pilots and they started the journey on November 6th and ended on December 3rd. The longest flight duration was six hours (from the Totegegie Atoll in French Polynesia to Easter Island), while the longest distance was a 1,629-nm...
Honda Aircraft Company Expand HondaJet Sales To HK, Macau, China
The Honda Aircraft Company is pleased to announce that it is expanding its sales presence in the Asian market. The Greater Chinese area, Macau, and Hong Kong have seen expanded sales with the appointment of a special dealer. Honda Aircraft Company implemented Honsan General Aviation Co & Ltd as the Honda Jet dealer in the area...
MoU On Future Of AS2 Between Aerion; Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin has been working with Aerion behind the scenes on the AS2 supersonic business jet by the Aerion Corporation. Lockheed Martin is no stranger to developing supersonic craft, most notably, the SR71 Blackbird, which was a Mach 3 aircraft. Lockheed Martin has been working closely with Aerion for about a year now to see the viability of this aircraft ...
Falcon 5X Program Cancelled By Dassault Falcon
The powerplants chosen to power the Dassault Falcon 5X executive jet are at the center of why Dassault executive made the decision to cancel the program. Multiple issues relating to the Safran Silvercrest engines resulted in delays to the program and the most recent publicly released issue was revealed in October 2017. The original delivery of compliant Silvercrest engines were supposed to happen in 2013 to meet Dassault Falcon's planned testing program...
Pilatus PC-24 Gains FAA; EASA Approval
A new chapter has begun for the Pilatus PC-24 light versatile executive jet. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approvals have been granted for the new jet. This brings the first customer-bound example closer to service entry...
Flaris LAR 1 Expected To Make First Flight In Q1 2018
Metal Master, the manufacturer of the Flaris LAR 1 personal jet says they expect to have the first sortie happen in the first quarter of 2018. They are not in a rush to bring this aircraft to market as they want to have it done right the first time. You see that attitude with their refusal to open up an orderbook for the aircraft as well...
Sky Courier 408 Unveiled By Cessna
A few days ago Textron Aviation brand Cessna unveiled a new product to the world, the Cessna Sky Courier 408. Deliveries start in 2020 with the launch customer FedEx. Yes, that's right, the plane is mainly a cargo carrier but it should be pretty easy to convert one of these to a VIP role. FedEx ordered 100 of the type with 50 straight up and purchase rights to another 50 to exercise if needed...
XTI TriFan Electric Jet
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The TriFan 600 from XTI Aircraft Company is set to electrify the sky
with the world’s first hybrid-electric,Vertical Takeoff & Landing
(VTOL) business aircraft.
The Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show is fertile grounds for superyachts and supermodels, but the 2017 show had another type of supermodel on display that not only turned heads, it may turn the tide on executive jet aviation in the same way electric cars are set to revolutionize the automotive industry...Ducted Fans Unite!
The TriFan 600 from XTI Aircraft Company is set to electrify the sky
with the world’s first hybrid-electric,Vertical Takeoff & Landing
(VTOL) business aircraft.
Deliveries; Revenue Continues Upward In Q3 For Piper
Piper is continuing where it left off in the 2nd quarter of the year with decent revenue and deliveries. The same has filtered through to the end of the third quarter and thus the company had decent figures to report. Aircraft sales continued to grow in both the Trainer class and M-class product lines with the flagship M600 and the single engine Archer TX trainer leading the sales expansion for the company...
Cabin Altitude Shrinks On Legacy 450; 500
Embraer has achieved a much lower cabin altitude on their Legacy 450 and 500 midsize models. The cabin altitude comfort levels has been increased by shaving 200 feet off the original figure 6,000 feet. The cabin altitude experienced on the Legacy 450 and 500 is now 5,800 feet and should result in passengers feeling a bit more refreshed. The current maximum cabin altitude of the Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 is 6,000 ft (1.828 m) when flying at 45,000 ft (13.716 m). The cabin pressurization differential was increased from 9.3 psi to 9.73 psi to reduce the maximum cabin altitude to 5,800 ft...
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