Sino Swearingen Aircraft expects to announce shortly the new target date for certification of the SJ30-2 light business jet, but is tight-lipped about whether the programme will be accelerated or further delayed.
"We are in due diligence. We are looking at everything, anything is possible," says the company, which underwent a management change late last year after an infusion of funding from its Taiwanese backers. US certification was projected for late this year, after repeated delays.
Flight testing of the first certification aircraft is continuing in San Antonio, Texas, and the second aircraft is being prepared for flight. A third certification-test aircraft is in final assembly and the fourth is being fabricated at Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Source: Flight International