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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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Turboprop Singles vs Very Light Jets
With very light jets (VLJs) expected to enter service by this time next year, turboprop singles are now meeting the contender face-to-face in the marketpla
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Will VLJs expand role of flight department?
According to the National Business Travel Association, U.S.
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Embraer and Ratheon keeping an eye on the light jet market
Two more established OEMs–Embraer and Raytheon Aircraft–confirmed they are looking at introducing aircraft into the light or very light jet market.
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Gulfstream 450 receives FAA type certification
Gulfstream Aerospace on August 12 received FAA type certification for its new long-range G450.
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Flurry of New Orders for Embraer
Embraer entered the Paris Air Show on a roll last month and exited with a flourish, signing orders for fourteen 118-seat 195s with Flybe and twenty 190s wi
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Q400 Sales Boost Turboprop Revival
Bombardier’s Q400 turboprop continues to steal the spotlight from the company’s regional jet offerings, most recently drawing a firm order for another four
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Bell/Agusta 609 tiltrotor returns to flight status
Pietro Venanzi took the left seat in the BA609 during the tiltrotor’s return to flight status, at Bell’s XworX center near Fort Worth, Texas, on June 3.
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HondaJet to debut at Oshkosh show
The experimental HondaJet is scheduled to make its worldwide public debut at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., later this month.
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Aerion: viable market for SSBJ
Last month at the Paris Air Show, Reno, Nev.-based Aerion said its market research, conducted over the past nine months by aerospace market research and st
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Competitor SAI also moving forward with its SSBJ
Supersonic Aerospace International (SAI) of Las Vegas said it continues to work with Lockheed Martin on the Quiet Small Supersonic Transport (QSST), the ci
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NetJets and SSBJs
A former NetJets researcher places high odds on the likelihood of the fractional pioneer operating a fleet of supersonic business jets.
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Verdict on Smaller Falcon ‘Early Next Year’
Dassault will decide by early next year whether to launch a smaller Falcon, chairman and CEO Charles Edelstenne said shortly before the Paris Air Show last
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Grob backer now majority owner
Executive Jet Investments (EJI), the Swiss-based group of investors that has had a 50-percent stake in the Grob SPn Utility light business jet, has now acq
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C series gets its engine, launch delayed until fall
Pratt & Whitney Canada plans to build a brand-new engine for Bom-bardier’s C Series line of single-aisle airliners.
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Embraer E175 gets FAA nod
The 78- to 88-seat Embraer E175 earned its FAA certification last month, paving the way for deliveries to start in the U.S.
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Premier I Subject of Proposed AD
Reports of cracks found on the rudder-pedal arm assemblies of two Raytheon Beech Premier I light jets have prompted a proposed AD that mandates replacing a
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Boeing Flies 737-900ER, Platform for BBJ3
On September 1 Boeing’s new 737-900ER, the platform for the new BBJ3, made its maiden flight.
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Original BBJ3 Platform Was 757-200/300
The original BBJ3, which was proposed in early 2000, was going to be a 7,000-nm aircraft based on the 757-200 fuselage and 757-300 wing.
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…Reveals Two New Business Jets
Embraer’s numbering system for its existing models suggests current gaps in the line, and company chairman Mauricio Botelho, speaking in Manhattan last mon
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Falcon Orders Picking Up this Year
Dassault said it received orders for 52 Falcons in the first six months of this year, compared with 62 for the whole of last year.
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Frontier Snubs Horizon with Q400s
Frontier Airlines has chosen to establish its own regional subsidiary to fly Bombardier Q400s last month rather than recruit its regional code-share partne
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Citation CJ1+ Recieves FAA Type Certification
Cessna’s Model 525 Citation CJ1+ received FAA type certification last month, bringing the aircraft one step closer to customer deliveries, which are expect
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CommutAir Signs for 16 Q200s
Plattsburgh, N.Y.-based Continental Connection affiliate CommutAir signed a deal with Horizon Air last month to lease sixteen 37-seat Bombardier Q200s.
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Quest Kodiak debuts in Alaska
On May 13 Quest Aircraft of Sandpoint, Idaho, made the first public showing of its new Kodiak utility turboprop single, at the Alaska State Aviation trade
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In The Works: IBIS Aerospace
Ibis Aerospace said FAA and EASA certification of its Ae270 turboprop single was pending at press time.
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In The Works: Dassault Falcon 7X
Since the maiden flight of the Falcon 7X on May 5, the 5,700-nm-range trijet has been flying almost daily from Dassault’s flight- test center in Istres, Fr
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In The Works: Gulfstream G150
Flight testing of the Gulfstream G150 S/N 201 is “proceeding as planned” at Israel Aircraft Industries’ (IAI) flight-test center at Ben Gurion Airport in T
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In The Works: Grob G160 Ranger
Certification of the seven-seat Grob G160 Ranger turboprop single has been delayed from this quarter to the middle of next year to incorporate a new interi
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In The Works: Eclipse 500
Eclipse Aviation’s fourth conforming Eclipse 500–and the first of its two beta-test jets–joined the flight-test fleet last month.
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In The Works: Evektor EV-55
Czech aircraft designer and manufacturer Evektor-Aerotechnik, best known for a line of light piston singles, used last month’s EAA AirVenture show to begin
