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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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Cessna and Gulfstream Ramping Up Production
Significant increases in orders and deliveries will boost substantially the production of Cessna and Gulfstream business jets, according to the 2005 year-e
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Challenger 605 Enters Flight Test
Bombardier’s Challenger 605, announced at the 2005 NBAA Convention, made a nearly 3.5-hour maiden flight on January 22 in Montreal.
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Snecma Aims New Engine at Bizav Market
French engine manufacturer Snecma has revealed plans to develop a turbofan engine to power business and regional jets.
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Another Delay for the Hawker 4000
Full FAA certification of the super-midsize Hawker 4000 (neé Horizon) has slipped again–from the end of last year to early next month, a Raytheon Aircraft
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Air Partner Enters Flight-planning Market
Charter broker Air Partner has entered the flight-planning market with the creation of a new division called Flight-Operations.com.
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GAMA’s Bunce: VLJs Won’t ‘Blacken the Sky’
General aviation is not going to “blacken the sky” with very light jets, said General Aviation Manufacturers Association president and CEO Pete Bunce, and
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Pilatus, ExecuJet Go Their Separate Ways
South Africa-based ExecuJet Aviation and Swiss-based Pilatus decided to end their eight-year-old relationship servicing and selling the PC-12 turboprop sin
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Falcon Jet Sales Up, Deliveries Down
Dassault chairman and CEO Charles Edelstenne said yesterday that the company ended last year with record sales for 123 Falcon business jets–the first time
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Winglets Are a Go for the Falcon 7X
Dassault has locked in its decision to push the Falcon 7X’s range from 5,700 nm to 6,000 nm and boost payload by 50 percent.
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Airplane OEMs Report a Record Year
The general aviation industry in 2005 reached an all-time record for billings and a four-year high in new turbine airplane deliveries.
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Phenom 100 VLJ Launch Price Extended to May 31
Embraer is extending the $2.75 million introductory price to May 31 for the Phenom 100, its offering in the growing very light jet segment.
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Piaggio’s Business Jet: Not If, but When
Piaggio Aero Industries, manufacturer of the Avanti turboprop twin, says it will develop a business jet.
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VLJ Programs Making Progress
Cessna, Eclipse and Adam Aircraft are all confident that their respective very light jets will be certified this year.
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Avocet ProJet’s Wings Clipped
Westport, Conn.-based Avocet Aircraft has canceled its program to develop a $2 million, six-seat very light jet known as the ProJet.
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Bombardier Owes Financial Results to Its Bizjets
Bombardier Aerospace's results improved in FY 2006, primarily the result of a continued strong business jet market.
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Major Facility Expansion Planned by Gulfstream
Gulfstream Aerospace, which experienced a 12-percent increase in aircraft production last year compared with 2004 and expects that growth to continue, reve
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FAA Downgrades Forecast for VLJs
While the FAA drastically cut down on the numbers of very light jets estimated to take to take to the air in the next decade, comments and speeches at the
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FAA Certifies Ae270 Turboprop
On Friday, the FAA issued the type certificate for the Ibis Aerospace Ae270 turboprop single to Aero Vodochody, the Czech partner in the joint venture with
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Farnborough Takes Possession of F1 Prototype
Early last month, the Superior Court judge presiding over the lawsuit between Farnborough Aircraft and Epic Aircraft parent Aircraft Investor Resources (AI
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Hawker 4000 wins certification
It has been a long road for Raytheon Aircraft, but on November 21 the Hawker 4000 (née Horizon) super-midsize received full FAA certification, following th
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Cessna asks FAA for CJ4 exemption
Cessna has asked the FAA to allow the Citation CJ4, being certified under Part 23, to meet the lower landing gear ground loads of Part 25.
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ACJ will fly shuttle service to Antarctica]
An Airbus Corporate Jetliner is about to get the chance to prove the value of its certification for flights into known icing conditions as it begins shuttl
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Airbus A380 Certified; can a BEHEMOTH bizliner be far behind?
Amid ceremonies December 12 in Toulouse, France, the Airbus A380 received joint type certification approvals from the FAA and the European Aviation Safety
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Mustang approved for full-scale production
Cessna received the FAA production certificate for its new Citation Mustang very light jet on November 22, two-and-a-half months after type certification o
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First customer A318 Elite delivered
Zurich-based charter company Comlux took possession last month of an Airbus A318 Elite, making it the first to operate the type.
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2007 looks bright for makers of entry-level bizjets
For this year’s look in the crystal ball, AIN added a number of aircraft to the list to reflect ongoing programs more accurately.
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Grob Sees Slight Delay in SPn Jet Program
Certification of the Grob SPn Utility Jet will be delayed by a few months, according to a statement released last week, 16 days after the fatal crash of th
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Honda reveals new details about the cabin of its jet
During a briefing held on November 20, Honda Aircraft president Michimasa Fujino showed off the extensive research and testing that the Honda team has acco
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Flying the HondaJet simulator
Honda engineers built a non-motion simulator–the Honda Nonlinear Aerodynamics Flight Simulator–for test-pilot training and to evaluate the flight character
