Samantha Cartaino

Western Aircraft recently completed its first installation of the Tamarack Atlas active winglets on a Cessna Citation CJ1+. Tamarack’s winglets can reduce time to climb and fuel burn and increase aircraft stability, while improving range and cruise speed. According to Tamarack, its active winglets can lower operating costs because customers do not have to deal with the weight and complexity penalty of traditional winglets.

 


“The active winglets make a tremendous difference,” Kerry Heiss, Western Aircraft’s director of sales and marketing, said this week at the 2018 NBAA Maintenance Conference. “It’s about a 16 percent fuel savings versus 4 or 5 percent from passive winglets.”

 


Western Aircraft was recently <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2018-04-25/tamarack-bolsters-winglet-installation-network">named</a> a Tamarack authorized installer for the Atlas active winglets for Cessna Citations, along with Eagle Aviation in Columbia, South Carolina; Northeast Air in Portland, Maine; and Duncan Aviation in Lincoln, Nebraska. Tamarack <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2018-02-06/tamarack-secures-faa-easa-nods-cj3/3-winglets">received</a> FAA and EASA certification for its active winglets for the Citation CJ3/CJ3+ earlier this year.

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