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Goose Posted: Fri, Oct 24 2008 9:09 AM
An orphaned fleet of 28 Eclipse 500 jets parked in Gainesville, FL, following last month's collapse of air taxi company DayJet, may soon have new homes. Light aircraft fractional provider OurPLANE tells ANN it has submitted a bid to purchase the aircraft.OurPLANE, which has a total of 21 Eclipse jets on order with Eclipse Aviation and operates an Eclipse jet from its Jacksonville, FL location, has made an offer for the Eclipse jets, and will immediately begin selling fractional shares on the jets through OurPLANE's nationwide fractional aircraft program.DayJet closed its doors September 19, a victim to the slumping economy and lack of available venture capital... and, arguably, an overly-optimistic operating model. Eclipse announced this week it would handle the resale of the DayJet fleet, following another Eclipse operator's attempt to secure bids from customers against the orphaned aircraft.Most of the DayJet planes are awaiting Avio NG upgrades, while some are still flying without the earlier "ETT" aerodynamic enhancements. None of them have modifications for flight into known icing.Despite those setbacks, Graham Casson, president and CEO of OurPLANE, says his company will be able to better utilize the fleet, in ways DayJet never could.

 

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