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April 15, 2005

As Predicted: Eclipse 500 Touches Down at Lakeland

First FAA Conforming Very Light Jet Makes Cross Country Flight to Annual Aviation fly-In

As ANN predicted just days ago, Eclipse Aviation's first Eclipse 500 certification flight test aircraft, N503EA, flew more than 1,300 nm to attend this year's Fly-IN in Lakeland, FL.

"Billy Bob Bin Laden"?

There's humor, then there's satire, then there's what the New York Times published on Wednesday.

AD NUMBER: 2005-08-03 MANUFACTURER: Cessna SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-08-03 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Cessna Model 680 airplanes. This AD requires revising the airplane flight manual (AFM) to add procedures to facilitate recovery of the cockpit display units in the event that the cockpit display units go blank, and to add flight crew briefings on the use of standby instruments in case the cockpit display units go blank and do not recover.