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Fourth Gulfstream G500 Joins Test Fleet
American airframer Gulfstream just announced further expansion of the testing regime for the G500 aircraft. They have added a fourth aircraft to the testbed team and T4 has already made its first flight. The initial flight lasted approximately 3 hours and 17 minutes. The G500 took off from the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport at 9:47 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, with Flight Test pilots Eric Holmberg and Brian Dickerson at the controls...
Bombardier Details 2015 Performance
2015 was a fairly rough year for Canadian business jet airframer Bombardier. It saw a number of problems and challenges that raised head including the slipping of entry-into-service for the Global 7000 to the second half of 2018. The Learjet 85 program was cancelled on October 28th due to lack of sales following constant market weakness. They also had some cancelled orders to go with it and on top of that deliveries were down in 2015 overall...
EASA Gives Green Light To Citation Latitude
Yesterday Cessna announced that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) granted full certification to their new Citation Latitude and deliveries in Europe commenced. “We are thrilled to offer the Citation Latitude to our European customers,” said Kriya Shortt, senior vice president, Sales and Marketing. “This aircraft is ideally suited for this market and can provide customers non-stop access to key destinations throughout the continent as well as North Africa and the Middle East...
Dassault Falcon Displaying Falcon 7X; 2000LXS At Singapore
French business jet airframer Dassault Falcon is set to display at the 2016 edition of the Singapore Airshow. On this occasion the company will be showcasing the popular Falcon 7X model as well as the Falcon 2000LXS. The airshow is taking place at the Changi International Airport. The region is growing and to-date has 50 Falcon model aircraft operating. The Falcon 7X has been the manufacturer's flagship aircraft for a while and continues to perform well. The tri-engined long-range business jet competes squarely with Bombardier's Global products as well as Gulfstream G550 and G650...
LARS 1 VLJ Being Prepared For First Flight
Polish company Flaris is currently working on a VLJ (Very Light Jet) they announced at the Paris Air Show last year. It is a single-engine jet in the VLJ segment that Flaris is trying to bring to market. Williams International has been chosen to provide the single powerplant in the form of a Williams FJ33-5 turbofan. The engine has already been installed on the first aircraft...
ProLine Fusion Certified For Beechcraft/Textron KingAir 350
Coming down to the end of 2015 (November) Beechcraft/Textron announced that the KingAir 3250i/ER was granted certification for the ProLine Fusion flight deck. Around midyear 2015 (June) they did a similar upgrade with the KingAir 250 and now the ProLine Fusion for the base KingAir 350 have been STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
New BBJ 787-8 Delivered To Head-Of-State By Associated Air Center
Completions company Associated Air Center announced that they recently delivered a VIP Boeing Business Jet Dream Liner (BBJ788) to a Head-Of-State customer. While it wasn't directly named who the customer was the aircraft designation suggests who it might have been for. TP-01 is the designation and in the past the Mexican President has used a Boeing 757-200 VIP as the Presidential Jet with that same register. Also, the same 757-200 VIP has been re-designated TP-02 which gives more credibility that the new DreamLiner is the new head aircraft...
ADS-B IN Available For Gulfstream G150; G200
It is not mandatory by the FAA but Gulfstream is offering owners and operators of Gulfstream G150 and G200 business jets ADS-B IN. The airframer has recently received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in install Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast In, simply known as ADS-B IN on the G200 and G150 aircraft. With this installation, Gulfstream G150 and G200 operators can receive traffic and weather information from ADS-B ground stations and nearby aircraft broadcasting their positions through ADS-B Out...
Bombardier Showcasing Challenger 650; Global 6000 At 2016 Singapore Airshow
The Singapore Airshow starts in mid-February (Feb 16-21) and is the region's largest airshow. If you are into both commercial and business jet aviation, this is the show for you. Canadian airframer Bombardier will be at the show and displaying from both their commercial line and executive jet arm. Essentially they will be showcasing a CS100, a Q400 Turboprop, a Challenger 650 and a Global 6000...
Gulfstream G500 Completes Flutter Tests
General Dynamics company Gulfstream Aerospace has reached a significant milestone in the testing phase of their new G500 model. Flutter testing has now been successfully completed for the G500. The G500 test-bed aircraft 'T1' was responsible for conducting these specific tests and were done over the course of 50 flights. “The G500 has accomplished a great deal since we launched the flight-test program in May 2015,” said Dan Nale, senior vice president, Programs, Engineering and Test, Gulfstream. “With three aircraft in flight, the program has surpassed 430 flight-test hours over more than 105 flights...
Profits and Deliveries Rise For Cessna In 2015
Textron Aviation, the over-arching company of Cessna sung praises for its performance in 2015. Both deliveries and profits were up thanks to good performance from Cessna's continued positive turboprop sales with the King Air family and the entry into service of the Cessna Citation Latitude executive jet. To give an idea, Textron Aviation shipped 166 Citation aircraft and of that number 117 of them were Beechcraft King Airs and 16 were of the brand new Citation Latitude. For the same type and same period in 2014, they shipped 159 with 113 of them being King Airs...
First Embraer Legacy in China Delivered To Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan has done it again and what that means is that he has taken delivery of the first Embraer Legacy 500 in China. A couple years ago he took delivery of the first Legacy 650 in China as well. The Embraer brand ambassador now has possession of his new fly-by-wire twin engine jet. “The Legacy 500 features our best-to-date technologies and it incorporates designs that maximize passenger comfort and fuel efficiency,” said Marco Tulio Pellegrini, President & CEO, Embraer Executive Jets. “This new aircraft, along with the Legacy 650 that we already delivered to Mr...
Dassault Falcon 5X Delayed By Two Years
The Snecma Silvercrest engine is at the center of a delay that Dassault Falcon says puts the Falcon 5X program back by two years. The hotly anticipated Dassault Falcon 5X is one of two executive jets the company unveiled in the last two or three years; the other being the 8X model. The 5X was supposed to have made its maiden flight in the latter-half of 2015 but issues with this particular engine started to emerge. The first test jet was rolled out in June of 2015 but now that aircraft is not expected to fly perhaps until sometime in 2017...
NetJets® Acquire Cessna Citation Latitude Business Jets
NetJets®, a Berkshire Hathaway company announced that it has acquired the first of two Cessna Citation Latitude executive demonstrators and gets placed in the Signature Series fleet. The other will naturally follow suit. NetJets® plans to utilize the first aircraft and have it around the United States where it will be showcased to NetJets® owners to demonstrate the leading in-class performance and luxury of the Latitude...
Cirrus SF50 Certification Penned For Mid-2016
Duluth-based airframer Cirrus Aircraft is eyeing Mid-2016 for certification of the SF50 single-engine personal jet. It's been a long hard road for Cirrus trying to bring this aircraft to market but with much-need capital from Chinese company CAIGA, the program was accelerated significantly but it still doesn't deny the long near 10-year development and certification period for the company...
Cessna Citation CJ2+ No Longer In Production
Cessna is no longer offering the Citation CJ2+ in production. The aircraft has basically fallen victim to better-equipped aircraft in its general class in Cessna's lineup namely the CJ3+ and the M2. Additionally, Cessna didn't make upgrades widely available for the CJ2+ so it eventually died a natural death...
2015 Dassault Falcon Deliveries Slump
It hasn't been a very good year for French business jet airframer Dassault Falcon. Just looking at their reported delivery numbers and it would give you an idea. Not only was 2015's figure down on 2014 but 2013 as well. Part of the slump is blamed on lack of orders from markets that previously were strong for them like China, Latin America and Russia. In 2014 the company handed over 68 Falcon jets and 75 in 2013. For 2015 that recently ended, Dassault Falcon only managed 55 deliveries...
Lufthansa Technik Delivers Second VIP BBJ 747-8
As usual, the general public will not know exactly to whom these giant private palaces belong to. We can tell you that the second Boeing Business Jet in the 747-8 model has been completed by Lufthansa Technik -fully outfitted and delivered- for an undisclosed client. These insanely expensive conversions and outfits take quite a while to achieve and realize but there is still a demand for them -albeit small-. Lufthansa Technik are working on a third 747-8 VIP BBJ to be completed in the near future...
Embraer Deliveries Up For 2015 -Slightly-
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer's executive arm finished up 2015 just slightly better than over the previous year. What defines the term slightly? 2015 yielded 120 executive aircraft delivered to clients all around the globe. Sounds great but this figure was only four better than the 2014 figure of 116 aircraft. However, it is alot better than coming-in under your previous year's performance...
Longest Flight By Embraer Lineage 1000 Made By Al Jaber Aviation
Both Al Jaber Aviation and Embraer Executive Jets have been propelled into the record books after an Embraer Lineage 1000 operated by the same Al Jaber Aviation completed the longest flight ever flown by that aircraft type. The Lineage 1000 is the executive/VIP version of the popular E190 regional jet platform by Embraer. The aircraft, registered as A6-AJI, flew from Beijing, China to the Al Bateen Executive Airport...
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