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It’s been a year since Embraer first got air under the wheels of the Phenom 100 - the Brazilian planemaker’s entry into the dynamic field of Very Light Jets. Now with a fleet of four Phenom 100s flying certification- and maturity-program flights, the sleek little aircraft seems to be accelerating smoothly toward its lift-off as a certificated aircraft when awarded its flying papers later this year.

Airplane makers form partnership to develop the new Learjet 85. When Bombardier Aerospace unveiled a model of its proposed long range Learjet ‘NXT’ at Dubai last November, not many would have guessed that this mid-size high-speed business jet would be an all composite aircraft. An even greater surprise, however, came as Bombardier announced in January that composite aircraft specialist Grob Aerospace of Germany would be named as the strategic ...

Coming Along, The A700: Aircraft poised to be the first all-composite VLJ. It’s been a longer, more circuitous route from concept to concrete than originally planned for Adam Aircraft’s innovative new VLJ, the A700. But the pace seems to be picking up, and increasingly 2008 is looking like the year for the ground-breaking little jet. The company started almost a decade ago by entrepreneur Rick Adam launched with the A500, a twin piston engine aircraft for sale with the engines mounted in ...

‘The Jet’ Simple, spacious design offers logical progression for piston flyers. When the Cirrus Design Corporation threw its hat into the Personal Jet (PJ) arena with its ‘V’ tailed, Williams International FJ33 turbofan powered aircraft, people sat up and took notice. After all, the company has delivered over 3,000 innovative aircraft in eight years, so the release of details about ‘The Jet’ in June was pretty exciting. Rumors had been circulating that Cirrus wanted to get into this ...

German manufacturer steadfast in getting the spn certified. Despite the horrific crash of the GROB G.180 spn second prototype, and the loss of Chief Test Pilot Gérard Guillaumaud, last November, the German manufacturer is steadfastly building up certification hours for its SUV of the air using prototype 01. If anything, the accident has made GROB’s young team of professionals even more determined to make the aircraft a big success story. Niall Olver, CEO of GROB Aerospace, ...

One Of A Kind: All-new PiperJet brings single-engine benefits to VLJs Tradition. It seems that ‘tradition’ sometimes serves as a synonym for ‘habit’. Think about it. When you hear the label ‘business jet’ don’t you traditionally envision something with multiple powerplants?     It’s not hard to understand why: business jets predominantly are a multi-engine collection - mostly twins, a few triples. But never - so far - singles.     That’s not to say that singles ...

Only a single Very Light Jet has landed in the hands of the first customers as this article goes to print – and that Citation Mustang is on lease to Cessna Aircraft for use as a demonstrator, so it’s not really in customer service just yet (see World Aircraft Scene). And deliveries of Eclipse Aviation’s first 500 remain “in the future”, or at least they were at the time of writing… Nonetheless, while the bizav community ...

Outsiders view VLJs as a revolution - but will it be? There’s an air race going on over America – but not the annual ‘crankin’ and bankin’ of the roarin’’ racers held each year at Reno. This is a race to the starting gate – and the contenders are all Very Light Jets. As you know, the VLJ story is a long-running saga dating back nearly a decade and already littered with a few wrecks of failed programs. Industry handicappers focus these days on the Trifecta Finish ...

The era of the ‘PLJ’ is here... in the shape of the D-JET Ever since the jet engine was invented, generations of general aviation pilots have yearned for a safe, affordable jet aircraft that could move them, and their families, at a higher speed, and in much greater comfort than a single-engined propeller driven aircraft. The main problem has been finding a light enough, and fuel efficient enough, jet engine to fit into a relatively small airframe. Today, however, the new ...

Grob Aerospace’s ‘seeing is believing’ philosophy of building new airplane designs, rather than talking them up, is definitely paying off according to Charles Porteous. He is the man in charge of marketing the all-composite GROB SPn Utility Jet. Zurich-based Porteous is employed by ExecuJet Aviation Group, which is jointly working with GROB as the exclusive worldwide sales distributor and maintenance support partner for the SPn.