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Eclipse Aviation announced this week it had received the landing-gear assembly from Italy’s Mecaer for its first certification flight test aircraft. That aircraft, N502EA, will feature Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PW610F engines and is on schedule to make its first flight in Q4 2004, the company said. Of the engines, Eclipse also announced this […]

This was a good week for Honeywell. In no particular order: The company announced that it received FAA certification for its TFE731-20BR engine and will be part of the standard avionics package for the new Ibis Aerospace Ae270 “Spirit” aircraft. It also said Gulfstream selected its AIS-1000 and AIS-2000 satellite television systems as the preferred […]

Meanwhile, Dassault Aviation says its forthcoming Falcon 7X model is the first aircraft in industry history to be entirely developed in a virtual environment, from design to manufacturing to maintenance. The jet’s development is revolving around an automation suite that enables Dassault Aviation and its 27 partners in seven countries to work on a common […]

Attempting to fill a niche between its Falcon 2000EX and 900 EX models, Dassault Aviation this week announced the Falcon 900DX, a large cabin tri-jet powered by three Honeywell TFE-731-60 turbofan engines. The engines, rated at 5,000 pounds of thrust at sea level, will give Falcon 900DX operators 1,120 pounds of cruise thrust at 40,000 […]

The A700 AdamJet made its inaugural flight in July 2003 and joined an increasingly crowded field of manufacturers in the light-light jet category. Adam says that the A700 AdamJet “is to date the only flying aircraft in the next-generation jet category,” yet the flying example is far from a production prototype. Put it another way […]

It doesn’t get much better than this, especially for a small company that has yet to deliver its first aircraft, or even receive FAA certification, for that matter. Still, the word “deliver” looms large in the background. In this case, however, Adam Aircraft’s entire sales department should be on a well-deserved junket to somewhere featuring […]

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Safire Aircraft Company last month announced a series of restructuring steps aimed at ensuring the completion and development of its Safire Jet prototype. The Miami, Fla.-based company said that it will reassign comes of the company’s staff to new functions and create a new five-person sales organization. “We wish to focus on refining our sales […]

Gulfstream Aerospace late last month said development of its G450 business jet is “on schedule and on budget,” one year after its first flight. The company added that its own flight test was complete and that tests leading to FAA certification — scheduled for the third quarter of 2004 — were well underway. Customer deliveries […]

A new three-year contract between Dassault Falcon Jet — Wilmington (Del.) and a local unit of the United Auto Workers labor union was ratified late last month, enabling both the company and its employees to get back to work. The settlement of a dispute resulting in the new contract ends a strike at the facility […]