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If Dassault’s 2005 sales success bears any relation to the quality of last year’s French wine, we’ll be laying in a few cases. The airframer last week announced 2005 was its “best year ever for Falcon business jets,” with a total of 123 firm orders, the first time the company sold over 100 Falcons in […]

Not to be outdone — by a wide margin, in fact — Cessna Aircraft Company also listed its 2005 results and looked ahead to 2006. Among the highlights at Cessna were delivery of 249 Citation business jets, 822 single-engine piston airplanes, and 86 Caravan single-engine turboprops. The company says it racked up total orders for […]

It was a very good year for most companies in the aerospace industry. As this edition of AVweb‘s BizAvFlash notes, several companies recently delivered glowing reports of their successes in 2005 along with rosy predictions for the coming year. In no particular order, we’ll start with Bombardier Aerospace, which last week said that it delivered […]

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Even as it obtained Canadian certification of its offering to power the Cessna Citation Mustang, Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. (P&WC) marked a major milestone last month with the production of its 60,000th engine. The achievement was worthy of a special ceremony held in the company’s Mississauga, Ontario, plant. And, since the company offers one […]

Raytheon this month announced its fleet of TC90 twin turboprops based on its King Air C90 platform has reached a major milestone: 500,000 accident-free flight hours. The TC90 aircraft, operated by Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Forces (JMSDF) Tokushima Air Training Group (ATG), have been used for multiengine and instrument training since 1973; some 34 aircraft […]

Sikorsky Aircraft last month reached a major milestone when it delivered the 600th example of its venerable S-76 helicopter. Now available as model C++ — with a new version, the D, slated to enter service in 2008 — more than 220 operators in 59 countries are currently flying S-76 helicopters. According to the company, the […]

Cessna’s machine-like ability to design, announce, fly, certify and deliver a new version of its wildly popular Citation series will likely remain on track with Pratt & Whitney Canada’s announcement last month that it received Transport Canada type certification for its new PW615F engine. Cessna will use two of the engines to power its forthcoming […]

Bombardier late last month flew the sole example of its Challenger 605 bizjet to the company’s flight-test facility at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, where it will begin a 200-hour flight test and certification program. The ferry fight from Montreal-Trudeau International Airport, where it made its first flight just a few days earlier, required only 03:08. Among […]