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Epic’s E1000 Wins Flying’s 2020 Innovation Award

The Epic E1000 captures the spirit of Flying's Innovation Award. Glenn Watson
Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Epic Aircraft’s E1000 turboprop has won the 2020 Flying Innovation Award, recognized for its power, passion, and overall achievement.
  • The award highlights Epic's dedication in bringing the E1000 to certification and successfully delivering it to customers despite a decades-long development cycle and recent challenges.
  • Both Flying's editor and Epic's CEO emphasized the aircraft's exceptional quality and performance, validated by enthusiastic customer reactions.
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The editors at Flying announced today that Epic Aircraft’s E1000 has won the 2020 Flying Innovation Award. The new turboprop combines power with passion to earn our highest honor, amongst a strong field of 2020 Editors’ Choice Award winners. “We’re really pleased to be in a position to award the 2020 Innovation Award to Epic Aircraft for the phenomenal job that you’ve done, not just bringing the aircraft to certification over a couple of decades, but also in the midst of everything that we’ve been going through over the last 4 months now, to continue pushing forward, to get those first deliveries out the door, and into the hands of some extremely happy pilots,” said Flying’s Editor-in-Chief Julie Boatman.

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