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Embraer Flies First U.S Assembled Legacy 500
Another milestone was met for Embraer recently when the company flew the first United States assembled Legacy 500 midsize executive jet. The aircraft was put together at Embraer's Melbourne plant in Florida. The achievement comes just eight months after the company assembled the first Legacy 450 at the same Melbourne facility. The Melbourne, Florida Embraer plant has expanded its production capabilities to building the airframer's midsize line jets -the Legacy 450 and 500-. The entry-level Phenom 100 and 300 aircraft are also manufactured at this facility...
Dassault Falcon 5X Flies With 'Preliminary Engines'
As many of our readers will know, the Dassault 5X program has been hit by delays resulting from issues relating to the Safran Silvercrest powerplants that are due to power this aircraft. However, today a testbed Falcon 5X took to the skies powered by 'preliminary variants' of the Silvercrest engines...
1500th Pilatus PC12 Handed Over To Customer
Pilatus recently celebrated the delivery of the 1500th PC12 turboprop. The milestone aircraft went to Royal Flying Doctor Service in Australia. Just under 2,000 Pilatus employees and guests took part, watching with pride as the 1,500th PC-12 with its special livery was handed over to the RFDS by Oscar J. Schwenk, Chairman of Pilatus. The anniversary aircraft had been earmarked for the RFDS as a symbolic thank you for its longstanding loyalty. In the run-up to the handover, Pilatus employees were invited to write thank you messages to the customer, to be displayed on the 1,500th PC-12...
Nextant Pushing The Remanufacture Envelope
Nextant Aerospace is the world's builders of the 400XTi, G90XT, and newly announced Challenger 604XT and they are pushing the envelope further in terms of capability by merging with a solid comapany. They announced the merger with Air Services, a leading provider of off wing services including component repair and overhaul, PMA capability and composite manufacturing and repair...
Fourth Gulfstream G600 Takes To The Skies
Yesterday Gulfstream announced that the fourth G600 made its debut flight and joined the ongoing test program. The jet still unpainted took off from Savannah-Hilton Head Airport around 6:50PM local time and spent just over an hour in the air. The aircraft climbed to as high as 51,000-feet and reach Mach 0.925. The fourth aircraft joins the test regime only six weeks after the third test article...
Raisbeck Swept Props For King Airs Gain Approval In Argentina
Raisbeck Engineering has notched-up another Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) validation for its swept prop aimed at the Beechcraft King Air 300 series. For those who may not know, Raisbeck Engineering is essentially an aftermarket aircraft equipment manufacturer and their swept blades for this line of turboprop is gaining quite a footing...
Daher Socata TBM 910 On Show At PAS'17
Daher Socata's newest aircraft model, the TBM 910, is at the 52nd edition of the Paris Air Show. It is the company's latest iteration of TBM aircraft and they are hoping to drum-up sales of the very fast single-engine turboprop during the show. Our new TBM 910 version – as well as the other TBM-series aircraft – is seeing increased interest of commercial operators for its unmatched performance-to-cost ratio,” commented Nicolas Chabbert, Senior Vice President of the Daher Airplane Business Unit...
Cessna Turbo Skyhawk JT-A Certified By EASA, FAA
This upgraded Cessna Skyhawk has been now certified by EASA and the FAA and is ready for deliveries to customers. The turbo-powered Skyhawk JT-A is more powerful and has better performance than its predecessor. Climb rate, speed, takeoff distance and range are all better than the previous iteration. The Turbo Skyhawk JT-A is a factory option as well that includes an integrated powerplant, propeller and cockpit upgrade package that boosts the standard Skyhawk’s performance...
Embraer Legacy 450 To Debut At Paris Air Show
Le Bourget is set to see the Embraer Legacy 450 in all of its splendour for the 52nd edition of the Paris Air Show. Although this is the only executive jet that the Brazilian airframer is showcasing at this airshow the company is displaying the KC-390 from it's defense arm as well as the E195-E2 from the commercial side of the business. As a reminder, the Paris Air Show starts June 19th to the 25th...
Textron Rolls Out First Production Citation Longitude
The first production Cessna Citation Longitude has rolled out of the Plant IV facility at Beech Field in east Wichita. “The Citation Longitude sets a new standard in the super-midsize segment, not only through the aircraft’s design and performance, but also in the way we are manufacturing it,” said Ron Draper, senior vice president, Integrated Supply Chain...
HondaJet Gains Canadian Certification
The HondaJet is well into the ramp-up process of delivering customer bound aircraft but the company is still slowly spreading its wings around the world in terms of gaining certification approvals. The latest came from the Canadian Authorities...
2,000th Citation Jet Delivery For Cessna
The Cessna Citation Jet family has been growing worldwide and Textron/Cessna recently celebrated the delivery of their 2,000th Citation Jet To a customer. According to Textron Aviation, the milestone aircraft was a Cessna Citation CJ3+ and was delivered to long-time customer Marc Dulude at Wichita Headquarters of Textron Aviation...
Stratos 714 Moves Towards Next Flight Test Phases
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has opened the envelope for further testing of the Stratos 714 light jet. Since making its first flight back in late November the aircraft has flown around 33 flights accumulating approximately 42 hours...
Williams International To Power Eclipse EA700
An interesting development has happened in relational to One Aviation's in-development Eclipse EA700. One Aviation announced that it has choose Williams International using the FJ33-5A-12 turbofan to power the Eclipse EA700...
Bombardier Delivers Milestone 3000th LearJet
Bombardier marked the 3000th delivery of a LearJet recently. “Today is an exciting day in Bombardier Learjet history,” said David Coleal, President, Bombardier Business Aircraft. “We are pleased that Leggett & Platt have chosen to welcome this milestone aircraft to their fleet to support the needs of their diversified business...
FAA Certification Late 2017 For Citation Longitude
The Cessna Citation Longitude test program is going well. The program has amassed over 450 hours so far using four test aircraft. The latest Longitude test bed, the fourth article was on display at the recently concluded 2017 edition of the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE). That aircraft was fitted with a full production interior. Most of the parameters of the program have been successfully done and a fifth and final aircraft is anticipated to join this Summer...
GE Chosen To Power Aerion AS2
General Electric (GE) has been chosen by Aerion to power the AS2 supersonic business jet that is currently in the development stage. The aircraft program has been in the infancy stages with alot of evaluations and predictions being made but now that an engine partner has been made it marks a much more solid path forward for the Aerion AS2 project...
Airbus Corporate Jets Unveil ACJ330 Neo
Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) used the platform of the recently concluded European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE), to announce a new member to the expanded ACJ Neo range. While the A330 has always been featured as a model that could be transformed into a corporate jet the New Engine Option (NEO) variant did not represent in the ACJ line and now ACJ announced this just before EBACE started...
Gulfstream G600 Shows Endurance With 13hr Flight
The Gulfstream G600 showcased its long range and endurance recently when it flew for 13 hours and 5 minutes nonstop. This is the longest flight made so far in the G600 program since is started last December and was performed by the third flight test article. The long flight also happened about two weeks after the third flight test article flew for the first time. Entry into service for the G600 is expected in 2018...
Pro Line Fusion® Avionics Upgrades For Challenger 604
There are upgrades for the cockpits of 604 series Challenger executive jets by Bombardier. Rockwell Collins and Bombardier announced today that the Pro Line Fusion® upgrade is now available for the Challenger 604...
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