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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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Dassault rolls out first 2000EX, sans fanfare
Dassault’s rollout on July 19 of the first Falcon 2000EX was a relatively quiet event, with little more than the weather to provide any semblance of drama.
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Hawker Beechcraft Premieres the Premier II at EBACE
This afternoon at EBACE Hawker Beechcraft announced the $7.365 million (2010 $) Premier II, a long-awaited performance-enhanced version of the Premier IA.
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Dassault Launches Leggier, Wingletted Falcon 900
Dassault today introduced the Falcon 900LX, a new version of the large business jet that features 4,800-nm NBAA IFR range thanks to the addition of winglet
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Century Jet grounded
Alliance Aerospace, the manufacturing facility in Macon, Ga., that was to continue development of the entry-level Century Jet while simultaneously performi
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Bear market delaying Eclipse 500 program
Eclipse Aviation displayed a new mockup of its redesigned Eclipse 500 at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., last month, but first flight of the genuine artic
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Dassault launches leggier Falcon 900
Here yesterday Dassault introduced a new version of the Falcon 900 large business jet–the 900LX, which features a 4,800-nm range thanks to the addition of
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Cessna names additional suppliers for Columbus
Cessna Aircraft yesterday revealed additional supplier choices for its large-cabin Citation Columbus, a $26.995 million twinjet scheduled for FAA certifica
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Saab 340s being marketed as corporate aircraft
A push to entice corporate operators into considering pre-owned, non-airline derivatives of the Saab 340A and 340B, which are no longer in production, has
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Learjet 45 max takeoff weight to get a boost
Bombardier plans to increase the maximum takeoff weight of the Learjet 45 by at least 800 lb, bringing the mtow to 21,300 lb.
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New R&D effort may revive Dassault SSBJ
French aerospace firms Dassault Aviation and Onera have signed an agreement to work on research and development that rekindle Dassault’s interest in possib
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Dassault enjoying increased Falcon deliveries
With the exception of the Falcon 900C, deliveries in the first half of this year of the other three Falcon models increased significantly over the same per
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Boeing maintaining BBJ delivery rate
Despite a slowing economy that is diminishing the rate of orders for some business jet manufacturers, delivery rates for many other manufacturers are holdi
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Moravan wins tender for Let Kunovice assets
Czech bankruptcy administrator Zlatava Davidova has awarded the assets of bankrupt Let Kunovice to Czech lightplane manufacturer Moravan Otrokovice, ostens
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Long-awaited Premier II ‘excites’ HBC
Hawker Beechcraft announced the long-awaited upgrade of the Premier light jet yesterday evening, highlighting improvements in range, time to climb, maximum
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BBJ success not expected to peak soon
A record order backlog for Boeing 737s has put Boeing Business Jet president Steven Hill in something of a quandary.
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Gulfstream G650’s launch ignites string of new orders
Two months after launching the biggest, fastest and priciest Gulfstream ever, top executives for the U.S.
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Upgraded Pilatus PC-12 makes European debut
At the Pilatus shareholder meeting earlier this year, triumphant chairman Oscar Schwenk declared, “In 2007, we sold more aircraft, we achieved a higher tur
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Phenom 300 first flight is propelling Embraer
Embraer announced creation of its executive jets division in the spring of 2005, simultaneously revealing the launch of its first “clean-sheet” business je
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Cessna’s Columbus still taking shape
After an extensive period of market consultation over its Large Cabin Concept, Cessna launched its new Citation Columbus program just over three months ago
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Safety issues a hot topic at VLJ forum in London
Delegates at the Very Light Jet (VLJ) conference, held March 26 and 27 at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London, warned that unless a range of measures
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New TBM Cockpit Is Jet-Class
EADS Socata’s latest TBM 850 business/utility aircraft is now available with an upgraded cockpit, based on a Garmin G1000 avionics suite.
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Dassault adds Falcon options
Dassault Aviation is here at EBACE talking about new equipment options it has in the works or has already completed for its Falcon business jets, and is ex
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Stork is Onboard the G650
Gulfstream Aerospace’s choice of Stork Aerospace to be a major partner for its new G650 large-cabin business jet is
not surprising, given the long-st
not surprising, given the long-st
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Seattle to Jeddah nonstop: BBJ's longest flight
A recently delivered Boeing Business Jet on April 7 flew the farthest distance yet for a BBJ: 6,854 nm, from Seattle to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 14 hr 12 m
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Delivering "the perfect airplane"
“I hate calling problems on airplanes ‘squawks,’” Jim Schuster, chairman and CEO of Raytheon Aircraft Co., said last month.
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Dassault is taking a fresh approach to Falcon 7X design
The Falcon 7X will be the first Dassault business jet to be designed in a “plateau” organization, with all risk-sharing partners working in the same office
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Piaggio Aero president advocates a new Avanti
Piaggio Aero Industries, which emerged from receivership in 1998, found a new lease on life for its sleek P.180 Avanti business turboprop with the establis
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Hard times push Fairchild into arms of a new partner
A virtually stagnant market for new commercial airplanes and a rapidly eroding capital base have convinced German airframe builder Fairchild Dornier to pur
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Sovereign prototype well into flight testing
The Citation Sovereign, Cessna’s newest aircraft, had completed 15 test flights at press time since its first flight on February 27.
