Aircraft

Dassault Delivers First Falcon 8X

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Citation Longitude Makes First Flight

Textron Aviation began the week on uplifting news of Saturday’s successful 2-hour and 2-minute first flight of the company’s new Longitude super midsize business jet. The Longitude, announced four and a half years ago and unveiled at last year’s NBAA Convention in Las Vegas, departed Beech Field on the east side of Wichita, with experimental […]

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Photos: Historic Junkers F13 Replica Takes First Flight

Flying was on hand last week to witness the first official flight of the Junkers F13 replica in Zurich, Switzerland. The near-exact copy of the first all-metal commercial airplane was built by German luxury suitcase maker Rimowa, which unveiled the airplane to great fanfare along with an extravagant party at the historic Dubendorf Airfield. Check […]

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Junkers F13 Makes a Triumphant Return to the Skies

Rimowa, a maker of high-end suitcases in Germany that has been in business since the late 1800s, threw a lavish, Golden Age of Aviation-themed party at the Dubendorf Airfield outside Zurich, Switzerland, last Thursday to celebrate the official first flight of its replica Junkers F13 – famed for being the first all-metal commercial airplane. Flying […]

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Factory Upgrade Transforms Hawker 400A and XP into 400XPR

Textron’s Beechcraft subsidiary has received full FAA certification for all program elements of its Beechcraft/Hawker 400A upgrade. All upgrade work is completed either in Wichita, Kansas, or at a Textron Aviation service center. The completed effort transforms the old 1980s-era airframe into a Hawker 400XPR that offers improved climb and takeoff performance, as well as […]

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Boeing and Saab Team Up for New Jet Trainer

Boeing has teamed up with Swedish Saab AB, designer of the Gripen multi-mission fighter jet, to produce a military jet trainer designed to compete for the U.S. Air Force T-X contract. The contract is expected to include an order of at least 350 jets worth billions of dollars to replace more than 400 existing T-38 […]

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Icon Moving Composite Production Work to Mexico

Icon Aircraft will christen a new factory in Tijuana, Mexico, to produce composite airframes for the A5 light sport amphibian, Kirk Hawkins, founder and CEO of the California company, told Flying. Outside suppliers had been tasked with producing composite airframe components for the A5 until Icon decided in May to bring the work in house. […]

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XTI Continues Creative Financing Program for TriFan 600 Project

The TriFan 600 project, currently in development by Denver-based XTI Aircraft, has reached an agreement with Primary Capital LLC for Series B financing totaling $20 million. This batch of funds should give investors some peace of mind when putting up their money toward the developmental VTOL aircraft. The investments are offered to accredited investors — […]

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Polish Flaris LAR 1 Jet Moves on with New Engine

Polish car-part manufacturer Metal Master has for years been working on a very light jet named Flaris LAR 1, which was on the road to its first flight in early 2015. The company has now mounted a new engine, the Williams FJ33-5A, to the tail section of the tiny fuselage. The engine received FAA certification […]

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