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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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787 First Flight Delayed Again
Boeing confirmed today that it will delay first flight of the 787 Dreamliner once again, from the end of the first quarter to around the end of the second
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Learjet 45 subject of emergency AD
An emergency AD requires certain Learjet 45 horizontal stabilizer actuator assemblies to be replaced with new assemblies before further flight.
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TBM 700C2 receives FAA certification
Socata’s C2 version of the TBM 700 turboprop single received FAA certification on March 17.
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Falcon 2000EX awarded certification
Dassault’s newest business jet, the Falcon 2000EX, last month received FAA certification and JAA approval for certification by its member nations.
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Global 5000 first flight pierces gloomy overcast
Early last month–while Bombardier’s business jet production was closed for a four-month plant shutdown in response to dropping sales and deliveries, and fo
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Honeywell Begins Test Runs of TFE731-50
Ground test runs started last month on the 4,900-pound-thrust TFE731-50, Honeywell’s newest business jet engine.
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Adam Aircraft Revises Production, Spending Plans
Adam Aircraft today announced “a revision to the company’s overall production plan.” The result is a “strategic adjustment” necessary to achieve two key ob
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First Cessna CJ3 Nearly Ready for Flight
The third member of Cessna’s ever-growing Citation CJ series, the CJ3, moved closer to first flight within the next 90 days with final assembly of the firs
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Bell’s bold vision of a civil tiltrotor takes flight
Like the old blues song goes, “It’s been a long time coming.
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First TBM 700C2 Arrives In U.S.
The first customer TBM 700C2, the latest variant of EADS Socata’s Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-64-powered turboprop single, has arrived at Socata’s U.S.
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B-N putting a positive spin on its propeller-driven aircraft
Despite the encroachment of ever lighter new jet aircraft on the traditional marketplace for piston- and turboprop-powered models, there are always going t
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Dornier descendant plans centenary global flight
At the end of this year, 43-year-old Philippines-based aviator and entrepreneur Iren Dornier plans to fly a soon-to-be-restored Dornier Do-24 seaplane arou
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In The Works: Cessna Citation CJ3
Cessna established a trilogy of CitationJet derivatives with the announcement of the CJ3 at the NBAA Convention in Orlando last September.
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In The Works: Farnborough Aircraft F1
Fund-raising remains the primary endeavor of Farnborough Aircraft Corp.
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In The Works: Ibis Aerospace Ae270
First flight of the third flying single-turboprop Ibis Ae270 conforming prototype (S/N 5), previously expected last fall, is now expected to take place thi
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In The Works: Visionaire Vantage VA-10
The federal court judge presiding over VisionAire’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganization apparently found sufficient merit in one or both investment of
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Insolvency halts development of extra EA-500 turboprop
German airframer Extra Flugzeugbau of Hunxe entered insolvency last month, similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S.
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Embraer Revisits Bizjet Version of 170
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is “seriously” revisiting the idea of offering a corporate version of its 70-passenger regional twinjet, the 170.
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Cirrus sets guidelines for the single-engine jet it’s mulling
Whether or not Cirrus Design of Duluth, Minn., ever decides to build a single-engine personal jet depends heavily on what emerges on the small-turbofan dev
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Dassault Launches Super-midsize Falcon
Speaking yesterday in Paris to employees, Dassault Aviation chairman Charles Edelstenne announced the long-awaited launch of a new Falcon in the super-mids
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Adam A700 Passes Initial Cold Weather Tests
Adam Aircraft successfully completed initial environmental testing of its A700 very light jet at the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin AFB in Florida.
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Diamond joins the small-jet fray
Diamond Aircraft, which manufactures composite single- and twin- engine piston aircraft, has announced it will build a single-engine jet.
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CRJ700 subject of emergency AD
The FAA has issued an emergency AD on Bombardier CRJ700s that limits center-tank fuel quantity to 1,500 pounds at takeoff and flight paths to within 30 min
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Citation Sovereign Mmo Increased to Mach 0.80
Cessna said flight testing of its wing design on the Citation Sovereign verified engineering data that increases the super-midsize jet’s Mmo from the origi
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PC-12 Pressure Domes May Have To Be Inspected
A proposed AD calls for inspections of the front and aft surfaces of the pressure dome on Pilatus PC-12s for cracking and other damage that would have to b
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In The Works: Gulfstream V & G550 (V-SP)
Since receiving FAA certification in December 1996, some 168 GVs have gone into service, 13 of them in Europe, but it wasn’t until October 31 last year tha
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In The Works: Spirit Wing FJ44 Learjet 25D
Despite a prediction in early October that its Williams FJ44-powered Learjet 25D would make its first flight within two weeks, Guthrie, Okla.-based Spirit
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Fairchild strikes deals for 328 and Airbus components
Fairchild Dornier on December 20 sold its Airbus components manufacturing and general maintenance businesses to Switzerland’s RUAG Aerospace after weeks of
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Air Wisconsin Inks Deal for Six CRJs
Air Wisconsin last month placed a firm order for six more 50-passenger Bombardier CRJ200s to serve its recently inaugurated code-share relationship with Or
