Cessna Bringing Jet A Fuel Engine to Piston Market | The JetAv Blog by Paul Pitts | Premier Jet Aviation Cessna Aircraft Company, is introducing an innovative technology for single-engine airplanes that will usher in new capabilities and increase the flexibility of general aviation. Cessna’s Model 182, Skylane will now be available as the new […]
Cessna Citation Latitude Range Increases to 2,500 Nautical Miles | The JetAv Blog by John Hall | Premier Jet Aviation SAO PAULO, Brazil, August 15, 2012 — Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition that it has increased the […]
Embraer Executive Jets Launches Legacy 450 Fabrication São José dos Campos, Brazil, August 13, 2012 – Embraer Executive Jets passed a major milestone in the mid-light Legacy 450 program last week when the first part was milled for the business jet, ushering in the beginning of fabrication. “Even as we have been making progress on […]
World’s Largest Snow Cone Machine | The JetAv Blog by Jack Schweibold. During this record breaking heat wave in the Midwest it is easy to long for return to what was one of the two World’s Largest Ice Test Rigs. This one was located in Ottawa Canada, the other in Russia. Consisting of 761 spray […]
First Lineage 1000 Spreads its Wings in Mainland China | The JetAv Blog by John Hall | Premier Jet Aviation São José dos Campos, August 2, 2012 – Embraer’s Lineage 1000 ultra-large executive jet will spread its wings for its first mainland China customer with the delivery to China’s Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Investment Group Co., […]
Brief Introduction of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” for China’s Civil Aviation | The JetAv Blog by Paul Pitts. The goal of China’s “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” is to strategically build aviation in order to guide the development of the civil aviation industry to ensure continued safety, to speed up the construction of the infrastructure and to […]
Never Alone In Aviation: The JetAv Blog by Jack Schweibold. Have you ever felt lonely in aviation? During the height of the Cold War following WWII I was at the SIAI Marchette factory just north of Milan, Italy. The mission was to evaluate a new installation of a turboprop engine in one of their new […]
Melbourne, FL, June 26, 2012 – Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) granted a type certificate to Embraer for its Phenom 300 light jet. The Phenom 300, which received its initial certification by U.S. and Brazilian aviation authorities in 2009, is now certificated in more than 40 countries. “Transport Canada’s certification strengthens our position in Canada, […]
Embraer Debuts Legacy 650, Phenom 300 Returns to CBAA Melbourne, FL, June 7, 2012 – Embraer’s Legacy 650 will make its debut at the Canadian Business Aircraft Association convention on June 13-14, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. At the same time, the Phenom 300 will return to Canada’s premier business aviation event, where it debuted in […]
Embraer Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 programs advance by John Hall | The JetAv Blog Embraer’s development program for its mid-size, 3,000-nm-range Legacy 500 executive jet achieved several significant milestones recently including taxi runs and the beginning of Ground Vibration Tests (GVT) in anticipation of the first flight scheduled for the third quarter. Milestones also include […]