NEWTOWN, Conn. [October 28, 2008] — In a new report to be issued in December, Forecast International has projected that production of the Eclipse 500 will soon end.  The Connecticut-based market research firm believes that the aircraft’s manufacturer, Eclipse Aviation, will not attract new investment necessary to allow it to continue making the aircraft beyond the first quarter of 2009.

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Eclipse Aviation Corp. employees will receive their pay no later than Tuesday, company officials said.

The Albuquerque, N.M.-based builder of small jets expected to have its work force back on the job today, the company said in a statement.

On Thursday, Eclipse told as many as 1,400 workers that the company could not cut checks for the bi-weekly pay period that ended on Nov. 12. Two dozen workers employed at Eclipse’s maintenance hangar at the Albany airport also were sent home. A few were working at the site Friday.

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