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News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.
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Sovereign makes its debut at NBAA '02
“To date, all major milestones have been completed on or ahead of schedule,” noted Cessna Citation Sovereign senior product director Brad Thress.
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Winging in from Wichita
The Bombardier Learjet 40 conforming prototype made its first flight on August 31 and five days later the first Learjet 40 production airplane made its fir
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Ae270 reaches milestone
Testing of the Ibis Aerospace Ae270 Propjet single has reached a milestone of one lifetime of airframe cycles during testing, representing 20,000 simulated
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BBJ ups its pressurization
Early next year, Boeing will offer a kit for BBJs and BBJ2s that will provide a 6,500-ft cabin at FL 410 instead of the standard 8,000-ft cabin.
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Meridian ups mtow
Newly built Piper Meridian turboprops will be more “useful” than their predecessors after FAA approval of modifications that will increase useful load by 2
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Maverick saunters in with turbine kitplane
Imagine being a new aircraft manufacturer and having Gene Cernan and Bob Hoover check out your airplane in one day.
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Cessna's 1 millionth customer takes CJ3
Cessna is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and the company’s 1 millionth customer was on hand here yesterday to mark his purchase of a Citation
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Piaggio on its way to a complete recovery
There is a line in an old episode of the television series “M*A*S*H” in which one of the doctors, informed of a patient’s recovery, remarks, “I thought he
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Mitsubishi continues to upgrade MU-2 support
Several steps to add to the support structure for MU-2 operators were announced at NBAA 2002 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America’s aircraft products sup
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Flight into Known Icing OK for Eclipse 500
Eclipse Aviation yesterday received flight into known icing (FIKI) approval for the Eclipse 500, though in-service and undelivered aircraft up to S/N 265 w
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Epic Elite Jet To Be Certified in Russia First
Epic Aircraft parent company Aircraft Investor Resources (AIR) and Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing (TAM) last week further cemented their joint venture to d
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Eclipse Developing Thrust Lever Software Fix
Eclipse Aviation said extra margin added to the Eclipse 500’s thrust lever forward range of motion should prevent the levers from being pushed beyond their
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First A320 Parts Head to Tianjin
Airbus has started sending the first aircraft sections to the new A320 assembly line in Tianjin, China, the company announced today.
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PiperJet Ground Testing To Start Soon
Piper Aircraft reports that its PiperJet prototype is making progress, with the first engine start and run to “occur shortly.” Earlier this month, the Vero
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787 Fatigue Airframe Departs Factory
Boeing last Thursday moved the 787 prototype designated for fatigue testing (aircraft No.
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Farnborough t-prop facing fiscal hurdles
Farnborough-Aircraft.com, the UK company that is developing the single-turboprop F1 air-taxi, business and utility aircraft, quietly withdrew from the NBAA
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Guaranteed brakes for Pilatus PC-12
The Parker Hannifin Aircraft Wheel and Brake Division of Parker Aerospace announced a guaranteed cost-per-brake-landing (CPBL) program for Pilatus PC-12 an
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Gulfstream delivers first GV to USAF as C-37A
Gulfstream Aerospace recently delivered the first of an order for five C-37A special mission versions of the GV to the U.S.
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Gulfstream extends benefits package to G100 and 200
Gulfstream Aerospace has announced it is extending the same benefits package to previously owned Gulfstream 100 and Gulfstream 200 jets that it has traditi
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GIV-SP, GV reach dispatch reliability milestones
Gulfstream Aerospace announced that its Gulfstream IV-SP has achieved a 99.6-percent dispatch reliability rate over the past year, while the GV dispatch ra
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Sovereign on track to fly early next year
Wichita-based Cessna Aircraft is continuing to make progress on the development and certification activities of its super-midsize Citation Sovereign.
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Saab 340s recast as corporate shuttles
Piedmont Hawthorne has entered into an agreement with Saab Aircraft Leasing (SAL) to market Saab 340 twin-turboprops for corporate shuttle use.
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Airbus has first ACJ ops confab
Six operators were represented at the first operators conference for the Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ) held at the manufacturer’s Toulouse, France headquarter
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Boeing Completes 787 Power-on
Boeing has completed the power-on sequence for the first 787 Dreamliner, the company announced today.
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First Customer Hawker 4000 Finally Delivered
Hawker Beechcraft delivered the first super-midsize Hawker 4000 to launch customers Gary and Donna Hall during a ceremony yesterday at the company’s headqu
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Cargo feeder designed for ‘roll-up’ LDX containers
A Minneapolis company is making plans to produce and sell a new single-engine turbine utility aircraft designed and outfitted for transporting cargo and fe
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Airbus readies 1st Airbus ACJ
Air France Industries is set to deliver its first completed Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ) this month, with a second aircraft to leave its Toulouse, France com
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Agusta ships USCG helos
Philadelphia-based Agusta Aerospace recently completed a 15-month project by delivering the last two of eight A109E Power commercial helicopters ordered by
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Eclipse 500 Operators Responding to Emergency AD
The FAA and Eclipse Aviation are awaiting the results of thrust-lever quadrant inspections on the more than 200 in-service Eclipse 500s before determining
