Business Jets: March 2009 Archives

Daher Socata has launched a co-ownership programme for new TBM 850 customers in an attempt to drive up sales of the single-engined turboprop within the increasingly turbulent business aircraft market.

The venture - the first of its kind offered by Socata - is called the Fly and Share Your TBM (Fast) programme and is designed to reduce the capital outlay for a $3 million high-speed TBM 850 for those owners who are either struggling to get enough finance or do not have enough capital to acquire an aircraft outright. Continue reading...

Abu Dhabi-based charter operator Royal Jet says the downturn in the business aviation market has brought one positive result - it has eased the capacity squeeze at specialist completion centres. Continue reading...

Embraer plans to begin retrofitting the Phenom 100s already delivered in the USA with new flap control unit logic and other upgrades from April to correct problems at the centre of a Brazilian emergency airworthiness directive levied on the twinjet last month, the first for the new design.

Continue reading...

If Eclipse Aviation is to turn into a phoenix, the 260 owners of the 259 delivered five-seat twinjets will be the ones breathing new life into an otherwise dead bird. http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/03/06/323377/eclipse-owners-aim-for-rescue-act.html