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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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Learjet 55 damaged while landing
Attempting to land during extreme weather conditions, a Learjet 55 ran off the end of the runway moments after touchdown at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airpo
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Honda Expands North Carolina Footprint
More parts of Honda’s aerospace puzzle are coming together as the company announced today that its GE Honda HF120 turbofan engines (2,000-pound-thrust clas
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UAVs set to mingle with regular traffic
The recent commencement of low-altitude Customs and Immigration patrols by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) along the Arizona/Mexico border and the earlier
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Safire Jet stalls, Eclipse wages marketing war
Camilo Salomon, president and CEO of Safire Aircraft, said he
has faced do-or-die situations before, but not in the aviation world, where, he says, e
has faced do-or-die situations before, but not in the aviation world, where, he says, e
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Epic Victory Single-Engine Jet Takes Flight
Epic’s single-engine Victory jet made its first flight on July 6 from Roberts Field in Redmond, Ore.
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Progress on Eclipse Pitot and Production Plans
Eclipse Aviation has submitted a final report to the FAA detailing tests of a pitot/angle-of-attack probe fix for the Eclipse 500 VLJ and expects FAA appro
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Boeing Publicly Reveals 787
Some 15,000 well-wishers witnessed the first public appearance of the Boeing 787 in Everett, Wash., on Sunday (07/08/07, not coincidentally), an event broa
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Bombardier debuts upgraded CRJ900
Bombardier Aerospace unveiled a series of updates to its CRJ900 regional jet during a June 5 event at the Signature Flight Support FBO at Washington Dulles
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More range for Smaller E-jets
Embraer has launched a program to add as much as 300 nm of range to its 70-
and 76-seat E-Jets.
and 76-seat E-Jets.
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Embraer’s Phenom Readies for First Flight
Brazilian airframer Embraer’s new Phenom 100 very light jet is currently undergoing ground testing in preparation for its first flight.
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Airbus Confirms First Buyer for Executive/VIP A380
Airbus CEO John Leahy confirmed at the Paris Air Show that the company has the first firm commitment for its giant A380 airliner for conversion to an execu
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Piccard and team prepare solar airplane for night flight
The Solar Impulse has made significant progress toward its goal of being the first solar-powered aircraft to fly at night.
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Viking Progressing Rapidly on Twin Otter
Some two months after announcing the relaunch of Twin Otter production, Canada’s Viking Aerospace began cutting metal on the first airplane at its final as
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Training, pitot, Avio spell more delays for Eclipse
Eclipse Aviation president and CEO Vern Raburn acknowledged in a customer/investor update dated June 10 that there is a lengthy wait between delivery of ne
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Europeans study VLJ impact
A recent Eurocontrol-sponsored VLJ workshop gave the agency and potential operators the opportunity to discuss the impact of the coming class of very light
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In The Works: Epic Aircraft Elite
Epic’s Elite VLJ made its maiden flight on June 7 from Redmond, Ore.’s Roberts Field.
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In The Works: Gulfstream Aerospace SSBJ
Recent news reports that Gulfstream plans to build a prototype supersonic business jet (SSBJ) by 2013 are inaccurate, according to a company spokesman.
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In The Works: Utilicraft Aerospace FF1080-300ER
Design of Utilicraft’s prototype FF1080-200 twin-engine freight-hauling turboprop has been finalized, and the airplane is scheduled to fly in January, acco
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In The Works: Comp Air 12
Comp Air is firming up plans to certify the single-engine turboprop Model 12, having agreed to work with Downing Aviation Associates “to secure funding, en
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Embraer Rolls Out First Phenom 100
Two years after it announced the launch of its Phenom 100 very light jet program (at EBACE 2005), Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer celebrated the ro
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Falcon 2000DX makes first flight
The Falcon 2000DX made its first flight late last month with little fanfare.
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Cirrus Unveils “The-Jet”
Cirrus unveiled the mock-up of its long-awaited “personal jet” this afternoon at company headquarters in Duluth, Minn.
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Sino Swearingen Seeking Funds To Boost Production
Recent news reports from Taiwan suggesting that the Taiwanese government is unwilling to continue funding Sino Swearingen Aircraft’s SJ30 program are not a
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F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Proceeds Apace
All systems go! That was the message from the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter briefing at the Paris Air Show last week.
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Easy-to-fly AeroQuad uses a coaxial rotor
The AN-1 AeroQuad produced in Spain by Aeris Naviter Aeronautical Technologies is on display in the light aircraft static park.
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Orsi wants to speed up BA609 program
“Why don’t my Bell colleagues take this question?” AgustaWestland CEO Giuseppe Orsi suggested when asked why Bell would not accept his company’s additional
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Saudi NAS buys four Falcon 2000LX bizjets
Saudi Arabia’s National Air Services (NAS) signed an agreement yesterday to buy four Dassault Falcon 2000LX business jets plus options for an additional 16
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Embraer says airline deal could could net $1.26B
Embraer yesterday said it has signed a “preliminary commercial agreement” with a Brazilian airline for dozens of airliners in a deal potentially worth $1.4
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Air France-KLM admits to previous Boeing 777, 737 order
The Air France-KLM Group revealed itself yesterday as the customer that placed a previous order for nine Boeing 777-300ERs and seven 737-700s.
