iscoverDAHER-SOCATA is displaying a TBM 850 in a polished aluminium finish at this week’s NBAA convention in Las Vegas, which it says demonstrates its ability to meet unique customer personalisation requests. Says the company: “To meet this customer personalisation request involved extra work time and research. The consequences of a bare metal finish needed to
A Gulfstream G650 has set a new round-the-world record in claiming the mantle of the fastest westbound time for a non-supersonic aircraft of 41 hours 7 minutes. Gulfstream says the aircraft recorded an average speed of 915km/h for the 20,310nm, three-stop flight, which departed on its first leg from San Diego’s Brown Field Municipal Airport at
Bombardier has had a ceremonial delivery of the first customer Learjet 75. The manufacturer had hoped to formally deliver the aircraft ahead of this week’s NBAA convention but was forced to hold a ceremonial delivery – to customers Louis Beck and London Air Services – as US FAA certification for the aircraft was delayed by
Cessna says its mid-size Latitude business jet is “on schedule” to make its first flight in the first quarter of 2014. “We have nearly finished with the Latitude wing, and the Latitude fuselage is almost complete,” said Terry Shriner, Cessna business leader for the Latitude, in an update the manufacturer released for the NBAA convention this
Embraer has announced improvements for its E190 airliner-based Lineage 1000 business jet, which thanks to a 230kg weight reduction boasts a 200nm increase in range. The weight savings come from removing the forward service door, removing blanked-over window cutouts and other tweaks such as lighter cabinetry, yielding a 4440nm range at high-speed cruise or 4,600nm
Dassault has launched its first all-new business jet in over a decade in announcing plans to build the US$45 million Falcon 5X, a large-cabin 16 passenger, 5,200nm range competitor to the Gulfstream 450 and Bombardier Global 5000. The Falcon 5X features a wider fuselage cross-section than any previous Falconjet, new Safran Snecma Silvercrest turbofans, a
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