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Citation Sovereign closes in on full type certification

Cessna anticipates that its Model 680 Citation Sovereign super-midsize business jet will receive full type certification before the end of next month.

Aircraft

January 31, 2007

New appointment at RSK MiG could doom Tu-334 RJ project

Appointing a Sukhoi man to the top position at RSK MiG is becoming a tradition.

Aircraft

January 31, 2007

Global Express XRS spreads wings

Bombardier successfully completed wing mating on the first Global Express XRS at the company’s de Havilland facility in Toronto on November 9.

Aircraft

January 31, 2007

Winglets in the Air for the King Air

Boundary Layer Research, the Everett, Wash.

Aircraft

January 31, 2007

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PW307A on target for Falcon 7X, says P&WC

Pratt & Whitney Canada is striving to keep fuel burn on target for its PW307A engine, which will power the Dassault Falcon 7X.

Engines

January 30, 2007

In The Works: Eclipse Aviation Eclipse 500

OK, first about the photo.

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

Eclipse 500 makes first flight with P&W engines

Keeping its promise, Albuquerque, N.M.-based Eclipse Aviation flew the first Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-powered Eclipse 500 certification flight-test ai

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

Hawker 800XP Winglets FAA Certified

Three months after receiving certification for its winglets on the Hawker 800, Aviation Partners has received FAA approval for installing winglets on the H

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

FlightSafety Teterboro fields Falcon 900EX EASy simulator

In late 1995, around the time of the highly publicized crash of an American Airlines Boeing 757 on approach to Cali, Colombia, Dassault launched a research

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

China Type-certifies Learjet 45

Bombardier reported that it has received type approval for the Learjet 45 from the civil aviation agency of China (CAAC).

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

In The Works: Maverick Jets Leader

At the Dubai Air Show last month, Tbilisi Aerospace Manufacturing (TAM) of Tbilisi, Georgia (the former Soviet Republic, not the Peachtree State), featured

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

Embraer boosts range of 190 and 195

At the request of launch customer JetBlue, Embraer has introduced longer-range versions of its 190 and 195 E-Jets.

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

Citation Mustang emerges from its stable

The first Citation Mustang test aircraft was towed from Cessna’s Pawnee facility in Wichita late last month for initial engine runs.

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

One pilot, one jet engine, one load of fuel

After a few weather-related postponements, Steve Fossett took off in the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer at 6:47 p.m.

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

End of the line for Boeing 717

Bombardier Aerospace’s case for the C Series may just have grown sounder last month as Boeing announced it would pull the plug on the 110- to 115-seat 717,

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

Embraer Legacy soon to be cleared to FL410

Embraer this spring expects to complete certification that will increase the service ceiling of the Legacy business jet from FL370 to FL410.

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

2006: The year of the very light jet

Call them what you want–very light jets (VLJs), compact jets, minijets, microjets, personal jets or even Barbie jets–they’re no longer “paper” airplanes.

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

Bombardier enters airline market with single-aisle C Series

Bombardier’s newly constituted board of directors last month gave approval to the company’s commercial airplane division to offer the C Series line of sing

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

In The Works: Safire Aircraft Safire Jet

Safire Aircraft of Opa-Locka, Fla., announced last month that wind-tunnel testing at the University of Washington Aeronautical Laboratory’s subsonic Kirsti

Aircraft

January 30, 2007

Hawker Horizon earns provisional FAA approval

While the Raytheon Hawker Horizon was one of the first to blaze the super-midsize business jet trail when it was launched at the 1996 NBAA Convention in Or

Aircraft

January 30, 2007