Aircraft
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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In The Works: EADS Socata TBM 850
After AIN reported that EADS was considering selling its Socata division to French aerospace, defense, nuclear and automotive manufacturin
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Citation CJ4 flies
Last month’s maiden flight of the Cessna Citation CJ4 prototype was “a rousing success,” according to the Wichita-based OEM.
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Eclipse Concept Jet No Longer Just a Concept
Eclipse Aviation this afternoon officially launched its single-engine jet program.
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Superjet Flies
Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft flew the new Superjet 100 for the first time on May 19 from the company’s main assembly site in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
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Socata Mulls Turbine Twin Launch
EADS Socata at EBACE outlined what its product launch might be next year–a twin-engine business aircraft that is bigger than its TBM 850 turboprop single.
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In The Works: AASI Jetcruzer 500
The developer of the single-turboprop pusher Jetcruzer 500 gave holders of its Class A and B warrants an additional month to convert their warrants, purcha
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In The Works: American Utilicraft
Lawrenceville, Ga.-based American Utilicraft, which is developing the twin-turboprop FF-1080 freight feeder, saw its share price drop from its 52-week high
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In The Works: Boeing BBJ3
The uncertainty of the near future has reached the big airframers, too.
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In The Works: Phoenix Fanjet
The future of this Williams-Rolls FJ44-1A-powered evolution of the former Promavia Jet Squalus is murkier following the closure of Alberta Aerospace, the C
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In The Works: VisionAire Vantage
Last year, VisionAire of Chesterfield, Mo., signed a contract with Israel Aircraft Industries for the Tel Aviv OEM to conduct a nine-month technical assess
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Regionals Update: ACA retires last of J32s
0Atlantic Coast Airlines ended 13 years of 19-seat aircraft operations when it retired the last of its Jetstream 32 turboprops on December 3.
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Crossair execs found not guilty in homicide trial
The Swiss federal court last month acquitted Crossair chairman Moritz Suter, CEO André Dosé and four other former airline employees of homicide by neglect
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Learjet 85 gets Pro Line Fusion avionics and European launch customer
Zurich-based ExecuJet signed for six Bombardier Learjet 85 midsize jets, making the executive aircraft sales, charter, completions and mainte
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Aerion SSBJ by 2014 unlikely, despite 40 LOIs
Aerion is still hoping to convince an OEM partner to join it by the end of this year in its quest to build a supersonic business jet capable of sprinting f
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Piper Aircraft Will Still Call Florida Home
Piper Aircraft yesterday afternoon made it official that the aircraft manufacturer is staying put in Vero Beach, Fla., following a two-year site-selection
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Cirrus Jet Single Flying by Oshkosh?
At the EBACE show in Geneva last week, Cirrus Design’s full-size mockup of its single-engine (and yet-to-be-named) jet enjoyed a prominent spot in Hall 7 n
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PiperJet To Shed Its Marionette Strings and Fly Soon
The PiperJet prototype appears poised to make an on-schedule first flight in the next two months as static testing winds down on the airplane.
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With introduction of Premier II, Hawker Beech boosts range, speed
Hawker Beechcraft launched the Premier II update to the single-pilot Premier I on May 19 on the eve of the EBACE show in Geneva.
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Convention Clips: AeroCourier notches 20-aircraft launch order
AeroCourier Group announced it received a launch order for 20 aircraft from AirShares Elite.
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Airbus unveils A340-200 bizliner
Airbus announced at last month’s NBAA show the World Ranger, a corporate version of the four-engine A340-200.
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Envoy 3 sells; Envoy 7 nears rollout
Fairchild Dornier at last month’s NBAA Convention in New Orleans chalked orders for three more Envoy 3s, bringing the order book for the executive-configur
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Falcon 7X will let the wires do all the work
The Dassault Falcon 7X will be the first purpose-built business jet to have a fly-by-wire (FBW) system.
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Falcons, much in demand, earn 74 percent of Dassault revenue
This year will be one of the best that Dassault has ever had with its Falcon business jets.
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Experimental test pilot ranks are no place for cowboys
“Beginning autorotation with left turn.”
“Roger.
“Roger.
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The certification fleet
Part of the certification process of a new aircraft design is completing hundreds of tests to hit thousands of data points for both flight and ground tests
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In The Works: Dassault Falcon 2000EX
Flight testing of the Falcon 2000EX, a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW308C-powered version of the Falcon 2000, began on October 25.
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In The Works: Eclipse 500
With all 173 Eclipse Aviation employees now figuratively under one roof at Sunport International Airport in Albuquerque, N.M., the company expects to begin
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In The Works: McCotter Aviation MC 2400
The GE T58-powered Maverick TwinJet is available only as a kit, but now McCotter Aviation, which purchased 90 percent of Penrose, Colo.-based Maverick Air
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In The Works: Sierra FJ44 Eagle II
Sierra Industries is turning from base to final for approval of its Williams FJ44-engine modification program for the Cessna Citation 501SP, which it calls
