WICHITA, Kan., May 8, 2013 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced that the first production unit of the new Citation M2 has reached the significant milestone of wing and fuselage mating. Certification is expected in the second half of 2013. “The M2 program is progressing well, and we are all […]
The U.S. Navy said it completed the first successful arrested landing with an unmanned aircraft using Northrop Grumman’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator. The landing was conducted May 4 at Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Md. Arrested landing procedures feature the incoming aircraft extending its landing hook to catch a heavy cable […]
Citation CJ Plus Update – Tamarack Active Winglets Provide Significant Performance Improvements The engineers at Tamarack are fairly accustomed to seeing their modified CitationJet show significant performance improvements during our flight testing, in terms of both climb performance and cruise performance. A recent example – During a series of flights they made around different parts of the western and southwestern United […]
Embraer’s rapid transition from military and airline aircraft manufacturing to a global leader business aircraft design and manufacturing is one for the history books. Coming seemingly out of nowhere to become one of the top players in the business jet industry with seven models ranging from the owner-flown Phenom 100 to the ultra-luxurious intercontinental Lineage […]
ACI-NA has released the following statement: The FAA resumed normal air traffic operations on yesterday on the heels of legislation passed by the U.S. Congress that permits the U.S. Department of Transportation to reallocate up to $253 million from other FAA programs–most notably the Airport Improvement Program (AIP)–to pay for FAA operational expenses. The legislation […]
Tamarack has working to optimize the design of their Active Winglets over the last several weeks, and they have collected a vast amount of flight test data in the process. Tamarack has been predicting that their prototype Active Winglet™installation for their CitationJet would reduce the time to climb to maximum altitude by about ten minutes, and all of […]
WICHITA, Kan., April 30, 2013 — Cessna’s new Citation Sovereign recently made its first production flight. Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, announced the program last year. The flight of the new Sovereign lasted a little more than two and a half hours and included tests of the Garmin G5000 avionics with auto […]
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, April 25, 2013 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, is offering “aircraft on ground” (AOG) maintenance on Cessna 208 Caravan model aircraft at their Citation Service Center in Zurich, Switzerland. The company recently announced that United States based factory-owned Citation Service Centers would perform similar unscheduled AOG maintenance on Cessna’s […]
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, April 25, 2013 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, has bolstered its position as the leader of the worldwide general aviation market with a number of noteworthy first quarter turboprop deliveries. Deliveries from the well-respected Cessna Caravan line continue to fulfill roles for multiple missions, ranging from flight training to […]
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, April 25, 2013 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, continues to supply the dominant four-seat airplane of choice for flight training schools around the world. The majority of qualified pilots flying today learn to fly on Cessna aircraft. Tomorrow’s pilots will be just as likely to have learned to fly […]