Flight International - November 10, 2015

BUSINESS AVIATION

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Jet market jump

SPECIAL REPORT P26

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ngineering and completions

company Flying Colours has

delivered its first Bombardier

Challenger 605 business jet to be

upgraded with an automatic de-

pendent surveillance-broadcast –

out (ADS-B Out) system.

The handover to an unnamed

customer follows US supplemen-

tal type certification for the sys-

tem, which covers the Challenger

600-series of large-cabin twinjets.

European and Canadian approv-

als are also expected by the end of

the year, says the Peterborough,

Ontario-headquartered company.

ADS-B Out is designed to im-

prove air traffic management by

transmitting highly-accurate posi-

tion data to air traffic control. ■

MODIFICATION

KATE SARSFIELD LONDON

Flying Colours

gives Challenger

ADS-B upgrade

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extant Aerospace has com-

pleted certification testing of

its G90XT twin-engined turbo-

prop, and says US approval for

the remanufactured Beechcraft

King Air C90 is “imminent”.

The programme was launched

by Nextant two years ago in part-

nership with engine manufacturer

GE Aviation, with the G90XT hav-

ing made its first flight in January

2015. The upgraded aircraft fea-
      tures GE H75-100 turboprops –
      the first twin-engined application
      for the powerplant – plus a
      Garmin G1000 flightdeck and a
      redesigned interior and cockpit.
      “Once certification is issued,
      we will release the G90XT’s final
      performance data,” says Jay Heu-
      blein, Nextant’s executive vice-

TURBOPROPS KATE SARSFIELD LONDON

US approval near for G90XT

Remanufacturing specialist Nextant planning demonstration tour for updated King Air C90

Nextant Aerospace

First flight was in January 2015

president. The company will also

start converting customer deposits

into non-refundable down pay-

ments, he adds. Deliveries are

scheduled to begin next year.

Nextant is now readying a

G90XT for a global demonstration

tour to promote the $2.8 million

aircraft and the $2.2 million up-

grade to current C90 owners.

Flightglobal’s Fleets Analyzer da-

tabase records a global in-service

inventory of over 1,800 of the out-

of-production type.

Cleveland, Ohio-based Nextant

is also continuing to explore new

platforms to add to its two-prod-

uct family, which also includes

the 400XTi. The light business jet

• a remanufactured version of the
  Hawker 400-series – entered ser-
  vice in 2013, and more than 60
  have been delivered to date.
  Heublein says Nextant is “ac-
  tively looking” at models in the
  super-midsize, large-cabin and
  long-range sectors. These include
  the Dassault Falcon 50/2000/900
  families and the Bombardier Chal-
  lenger 600 series. ■

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