Category: Aircraft
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Ardent Acquisition Corp’s Avantair (a fractional aircraft shares provider) has reportedly placed a $57 million order with Embraer for 20 Phenom 100 executive jets that should begin to see service in June 2009. Avantair "currently manages a fleet of 25 planes with another 58 on order in five states and…
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The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention 2006 was held recently. Here is a summary of new articles related to the convention that may be of interest: jobwerx, bizjournal, orlandosentinel, and Honeywell search at flightglobal.
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CIRRUS offers a unique safety feature as a standard for all their aircraft models — an airframe parachute recovery system. Their site has more detailed information and a FLASH movie you can watch of the parachute being actually deployed on an aircraft in-flight.
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Areo-News Network is reporting that Eclipse Aviation is being sued in U.S. Federal Court related to some of their earliest aircraft purchase deals with a company from Europe called Aviace Limited.
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Joe Shareky @ NY Times tells his story of "Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, And Living". Joe was on a free lance assignment for Business Jet Traveler magazine, and in the Embraer Legacy 600 that had a collision with a Boeing 737 over Brazil were 155 people on the…
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Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes and in his column "Digital Rules" for Sept. 18, 2006 he gives another major endorsement to private jets in main piece entitled "Private Jet Boom." Some key numbers: 40% increase in jet charters the week after the UK airline bomb plots 35% increase…
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KRQE.com is reporting that Eclipse Aviation has received their final certification, and that their first customer delivery should be completed in a matter of days. Currently two aircraft have come off the assembly line and 23 other aircraft are in production.
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Raytheon’s Flight Options has the following personal portfolio view of themselves: Large dedicated maintenance network Offering either fractional, lease, or JetPass service plan options Over 150 aircraft available from light jets to legacy executive platforms They also seem to be building around the following motto: Safety, Service, Stability.
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Aviation Now has a detailed pilot’s report by Fred George on the new Pilatus PC-12/47. It is a great read. Some take-a-ways: Range with full tanks and 7 passengers is 1,450 nm Main rival is the Raytheon King Air B200 Standard integrated GPS is the Honeywell KLN90B but you can…
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Engadget is reporting that Panasonic apparently has plans to fill in for the recently announced cancellation of Boeing’s Connexion Internet services for in-flight use on major airlines.
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