Sun, Dec 23, 2007
Sales Reach The 150-Order Milestone
The EADS Socata’s TBM 850 program is reportedly ending a
highly successful year with record sales backlog booked for 2008
and moving fast into 2009 along with production rate growth.
Nicolas Chabbert, EADS Socata’s Vice President, Sales &
Marketing, said that 60 TBM 850 aircraft were sold from its 2008
order book since the allocation was opened in early September of
this year.
“Never in the TBM program’s history has a
year’s order capacity been filled up so fast,” Chabbert
said. “This is a spectacular achievement by our sales team
and distributors. It also testifies to wide public recognition of
the TBM 850’s performance and overall quality. Combined with
moderate fuel consumption, the TBM 850 is delivering jet speed with
a low environmental signature.”
The new orders bring firm TBM 850 sales to more than 150 in the
24 months since the aircraft was launched in mid-December 2005. The
majority has been purchased by US customers; with a 20% share for
Europe and 10% for South America, Asia and the Pacific, and with
new sales in Brazil and Australia.
Of the total sales to date, 42 TBM 850s were delivered in 2006,
and another 42 to date have gone to customers in 2007. The company
has scheduled deliveries of an additional nine aircraft enduring
the remaining days of this month.
The TBM 850 is the world’s fastest single engine
turboprop, with a maximum cruising speed of 320 KTAS at 26,000 ft
(in ISA conditions). A 850-shp version of EADS Socata’s
proven six-seat TBM 700 turboprop business aircraft, EADS Socata
claims that the TBM 850 combines the cruising speed and travel
times typical of light jets with economical direct operating costs,
while offering the range and excellent payload capacity of
turboprop aircraft.
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