Tue, Apr 24, 2007
Third Production Jet Goes To Ski Company Founders
Cessna Aircraft Company tells ANN that on Monday, the planemaker
delivered the first retail Citation Mustang business jet to Dave
and Dawn Goode of GOODE Ski Technologies.
This is the third production Mustang delivered from
Independence. The first two are being used by Cessna as marketing
demonstration aircraft.
"We are proud to be the owners of the first retail Mustang and
excited about putting it into service," said David Goode, president
and founder of GOODE Ski Technologies. "We have a great deal of
confidence in this aircraft because it represents the best of what
Cessna has to offer, including an extensive support network to
stand behind it."
A former member of the US Ski Team, Dave Goode founded GOODE Ski
Technologies in 1975. After 15 years of manufacturing and marketing
ski accessories, Goode developed and produced the snow ski
industry's first carbon fiber ski. Goode also patented the first
carbon fiber water ski. Today, GOODE is the world leader in carbon
composite ski poles, snow skis and water skis.
"We plan to fly our Mustang to extreme ski locations to test out
our newest line of snow skis," Goode said. "Having short field
capability will allow us to land at smaller, remote airports near
some of the best ski resorts in the world."
Goode currently flies a Cessna 310 twin-engine piston aircraft.
He completed his single-pilot Citation Mustang type rating on March
1, becoming the first customer to be rated in the aircraft.
Full type certification for the Citation Mustang was awarded by
the Federal Aviation Administration September 8, 2006, making it
the first of a new category of entry-level jets to win type
certification from the FAA. Cessna plans to deliver 40 Citation
Mustangs in 2007, with production ramping up to about 150 aircraft
per year by the end of 2009.
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