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Second Phenom 100 Takes Flight

Embraer VLJ Sees Light Under Its Gear

Embraer performed the maiden flight of its second Phenom 100 jet, registration PP-XOM, Wednesday. Captain Marcio Brisolla Jordão, Captain Antonio Bragança Silva, and flight engineer Carlos Roberto Silveira Filho.

Synergy Aerospace Signs Contract For 12 AgustaWestland Helos

Adds To 18 Helicopters On Order

AgustaWestland told ANN Thursday that Synergy Aerospace has signed a contract for 12 more helicopters including AW109 Power, Grand and AW139 models. This latest contract is part of the framework of the multi-year contract and distribution agreement signed in July 2006 which agreed the acquisition of 56 helicopters.

NBAA 2007: Business Aviation Show Keeps Rolling Along

Charter Sales, Airport Development... Maybe Even An SSBJ

Day two of the 60th Annual National Business Aviation Association Convention settled into a steady state with fewer press announcements, but no lack of news. Thanks to continued buying by the on-demand market, some diverse developments in airport development and a trickle of aircraft development news, the business-aviation news at the convention retained its sense of an evolutionary trend.

ANN Thanks NBAA Expo 2007 Special Coverage Sponsors: Cirrus Design!

ANN Thanks One Of Our Favorite NBAA 2007 Special Coverage Sponsors: Cirrus Design (Display Areas #5001, Static Display) It is tremendously difficult to raise the bar each year in regards to our special events coverage, but thanks to sponsors like Cirrus Design, we get the chance to try.

NBAA 2007: Airbus Reaches Milestone In ACJ Program

Delivers 100th A320 Family-Based Bizjet

The Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) Family has reached the milestone of 100 sales, worth $5.5 billion based on list prices, 10 years after program launch in 1997.

ANN Names NBAA 2007 Major Sponsor: Diamond Aircraft

Visit Diamond Aircraft At NBAA Display #4039! ANN is proud to have friends like Diamond Aircraft to help us bring you coverage of the 2007 NBAA Convention. Each Diamond Aircraft is a testimony to efficiency in design. Not a line is wasted; not a curve is out of place. From the elegant DA20, and its roots in gliders... to the larger DA40 four-place birds... to the ALL-NEW DA50... and the gorgeous, Thielert diesel-powered DA42, these planes live up to their 'Diamond' moniker.

ANN Sponsor, Eclipse Aviation, Soars into NBAA 2007

See Eclipse at their display in Booth 2248, as well as the Static Display!

Eclipse Aviation, manufacturer of the world's first very light jet (VLJ), returns to NBAA for 2007 with a full FAA Type certificate and production certificate in hand -- as well as the exciting ECJ POC aircraft. More important; the company is delivering Eclipse 500s and has opened two Eclipse Service Centers (ESCs).