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HondaJet's 250th Unit Shipped
The HondaJet, which earned its type certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2015, has been a game-changer in its class. To date, the aircraft holds 14 type certifications around the world. Its progressive evolution, from the HondaJet (2015), to the HondaJet Elite (2018), the Elite S (2021), and the latest Elite II (2022), has consistently redefined the very light jet category...
Stable Performance For Daher In 2023
By the end of 2023 Daher recorded 74 deliveries to customer around the world which was only 1 more unit more than in 2022. In terms of order intake for 2023, that perfectly matched the previous year as well standing at 100 units and takes their backlog well into-2025...
PC-24 Touches Down On Australian Highway
Pilatus PC-24 recently landed on an Australian outback highway. It is the first time that a PC-24 has landed on a highway according to Pilatus. It should be clear that the event was a simulation ran by Royal Flying Doctors Service in Australia to test their response to a road accident in more remote areas. The highway was closed for the simulation and a touchdown zone painted on the highway to help guide the pilots...
2024 To Be Encouraging For Some Airframers
2024 will be a year where large-cabin executive jet deliveries climb. This is simply because the Dassault Falcon 6X and the Gulfstream G700 are expected to be squarely in service. Both the Falcon 6X and the Gulfstream G700 faced delayed certification and in the case of the G700 that has pushed entry-into-service (EIS) into 2024. EIS was expected to be towards the end of 2023 for the G700. That has pushed a bunch of customer units into 2024...
Southern California Preparing For Electric Aviation
As part of the ramp-up towards certification of individual eVTOLs and electric aircraft in general, the charging infrastructure needs to be in place as well. In many cases, this infrastructure along with the airport's/vertiports/landing areas have not even been started. Remember quite a few of these new aircraft are supposed to be certified in 2025. In the case of Joby Aviation, the first aircraft recharging station for air-taxi type aircraft in Southern California will be placed at the John Wayne Airport...
Official Unveiling Coming For X-59 QueSST This Month
The last we heard about the Lockheed Martin/NASA QueSST X-59 was perhaps mid-2023 when they were ground-testing the first assembled test aircraft prototype. https://www.jetforums.net/threads/news-nasa-x-59-moves-towards-ground-testing.4687/#post-29152 . We were able to see parts of the airframe last year but not a fully-assembled aircraft. This month NASA is expected to officially roll-out the X-59...
Hermeus Project Latest Advancements
The Hermeus Project is a hypersonic endeavour that JF has been following over the last few years. This article serves as an update to this project. JF carried a previous article stating that the 'Quarterhorse' was supposed to have its first flight in 2022...
Jetcruzer Once Dead; Has A Future Lifeline
Jetcruzer International, a California-based company is looking to bring back the Jetcruzer as a more sustainable aircraft for modern times. For those who may not be aware, the Jetcruzer design existed already in the 1980's as a tail-less aft single-engine aircraft but it never made it to market. However, with new vigor and resources from Victor Tao—owner of Farrar Aerospace in Riverside, California— the aircraft could come back to life thanks to this company's purchasing of the physical and intellectual remains of the program back in 2016...
BOOM Supersonic Misses 2023 First Flight Goal
BOOM Supersonic was advancing towards the first flight of their XB-1 demonstrator... and they still are. The end of 2023 did not go according to plan and the company felt the need to bolster the safety aspects of the demonstrator aircraft before fully proceeding with the first flight. Those safety upgrades are being done to the landing gear, dampening as well as engine intakes. The final round of high-speed taxi tests still have to be concluded before being cleared for the first flight...
First King Air B200 Retrofitted By Elliott Aviation With Garmin Autoland
The Garmin Autoland feature has been spreading and Elliott Aviation announced yesterday it has completed its first retrofit of the automated feature on a King Air B200. This milestone marks a significant achievement for both Elliott Aviation and opens the next chapter in the evolution of Garmin’s G1000 NXI Platform for King Airs. "We are thrilled to deliver our first Garmin Autoland upgrade in a King Air B200," said Dan Edwards CEO at Elliott Aviation. "Safety is always our top priority, and the Garmin Autoland system represents a groundbreaking advancement in aviation technology...
JSX Transitioning To Sustainable Flying With Hybrid-Electric Order
For small community air service in the future, JSX will be using hybrid-electric aircraft. This is why they recently made a large order for several types of hybrid-electric aircraft. In fact, it is an order for 332 aircraft between manufacturers Electra, Aura Aero, and Heart Aerospace...
3rd ACJ TwoTwenty Arrives At Comlux For Completion
The executive jet race is a big-ticket business and for completions centers like Comlux who specialize in taking a clean-sheet interior and finishing them to a clients' expectations it is equally busy. In the case of the ACJ TwoTwenty, this is one of the newest offerings from ACJ that can be transformed into a business jet. Comlux recently received the 3rd ACJ TwoTwenty and will get to work to fitout the interior and exterior to the customers exacting requirements...
Uncrewed Cessna 208B Caravan Flight
In November a Cessna 208B Caravan made a flight with no pilot onboard. The aircraft was set up with autonomous flight systems that are part of work by Reliable Robotics. The flight was monitored remotely by a pilot on the ground approximately 50 miles away...
New Date Set For Bids On Piaggio Aerospace Sale
In the latest round of information regarding Piaggio Aerospace, there is some movement expected for the start of the coming new year. The Extraordinary Commissioners attached to overseeing Piaggio's sale have set a new date for the next round of bidding by potential candidates...
Ampaire EEL Hybrid-Electric Sets Endurance Record
Ampaire recently flew its EEL Demonstrator for 12 hours continuously -which is an achievement on its own- on the 10th of December. Ampaire believes the flight establishes a new record for hybrid electric aircraft endurance with a total flight time of 12 hours exactly and over 2 hours of fuel and battery reserves remaining...
BOOM Supersonic; Honeywell Anthem For Overture
In October 2021, Honeywell unveiled a brand new high-tech avionics suite for the market. JF covered it at the time The new flight deck was made for a number of applications especially the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) market but executive jets and even cargo transports could be fitted with the new technology. https://www.jetforums.net/threads/n...-latest-avionics-flight-deck.4001/#post-25910 ...
M80 Hybrid-Electric Aircraft Unveiled By Maeve Aerospace
Earlier this year JF published an article on a Dutch startup that is seeking to bring a hybrid-electric aircraft to market in the late 2020s or early 2030s. https://www.jetforums.net/threads/news-maeve-aerospace-to-fly-all-electric-maeve-01-by-2029.4626/ That company called Maeve Aerospace is back in the news again with a new offering. Instead of the 8-propeller model they were initially putting forth, there is now a more conventional 2-engine setup for an 80-seat hybrid-electric turboprop sized aircraft offering jet-like performance and turboprop efficiency...
Stratolaunch Completes Captive-Carry Flight with TA-1 Test Vehicle
Some news from Mojave, California regarding the Stratolaunch enterprise. Stratolaunch, LLC announces the completion of a captive carry flight with the first powered Talon-A hypersonic vehicle, TA-1. The flight was the twelfth for the company’s launch platform Roc and the first in which the aircraft carried a Talon vehicle with live propellant as part of a buildup approach for Talon-A’s first powered flight. The flight lasted a total of three hours and 22 minutes and represented a significant step forward in the company’s near-term goal of completing a powered flight with the Talon-A vehicle, TA-1...
First Flight On Batteries For EcoPulse Demonstrator
While the EcoPulse aircraft has been under preliminary testing since its introduction in 2019, the aircraft which is a modified Daher 900 series turboprop, has been utilizing its main turboprop propeller. However, at the end of November the aircraft took-off from Tarbes, France with batteries onboard and utilized the electric propellers along with the hybrid turbogenerator...
Special Edition Cirrus SF50 Unveiled
Cirrus Aircraft has unveiled a new special edition SF50 Vision Jet. The initial announcement was made at the 2023 NBAA BACE in Las Vegas, Nevada. The special edition SF50 Vision Jet is for the 500th delivery overall of this single-engine personal jet. The SF50 is recognized as the first jet-powered single-engine personal jet in the world...
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