Thu, Sep 08, 2005
Says Third Aircraft Has Now Completed All Tests
Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corp. says
it has completed another vital step in the FAA certification
program -- Flight Test Aircraft Serial Number 0003 has now finished
all of its FAA flight testing, with 100-percent value added to the
final FAA certification program, due later this year.
"This marks a major milestone for the Sino Swearingen SJ30 FAA
Certification project, said Mark Elwess Senior Flight Test Pilot.
"Aircraft N30SJ (SN0003) just completed its last FAA TIA flight
testing with the completion of the autopilot performance and
malfunction tests after an amazing list of tests accumulated."
Elwess flew the tests along with Senior Flight Test Manager and
DER Schuyler Horn, senior flight test engineer and copilot Mark
Fairchild and senior flight test engineer and co-pilot, Patrick
Carvel.
SJ30-2 twinjet aircraft serial number 0003, is the earliest in
the fleet of three flight test aircraft, and has accumulated an
extraordinary number of actual flight test hours that exceeded 725
hours. These hours included numerous and wide-ranging combinations
of Company and FAA compliance Flight Testing. Tests involved were
extensive high Mach lateral directional tests, engine in flight
fire suppression tests, in flight unusable fuel tests, flight
testing of engine operating characteristics and engine out
conditions, engine in flight, air start tests, noise compliance
tests, extreme cold and severe hot weather operations tests,
engine-airframe natural icing tests and more.
Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation is FAA certifying the new
SJ30-2 twin engine business jet at San Antonio TX with over 550
employees in four facilities totaling over 220,000 sq ft throughout
the US. The company continues spectacular acceleration in the
certification process and recently received the first final FAA TIA
for a twinjet business aircraft in over three decades. The final
TIA is the last major threshold prior to the FAA certification TC
(Type Certification) projected to be final in the second half of
this year. The new Sino Swearingen SJ30-2 business jet is a very
high performance, ultra long range, intercontinental, twinjet
aircraft with an incredible 2,875 sm range (2,500 nm) and one of
the highest cruise speeds in the history of the light jet industry
at Mach .83 (560 mph).
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