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» Visit Cessna Aircraft in booth 803 at the AOPA Expo
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CESSNA
TO OFFER DIESEL SKYHAWK
Cessna will offer the 172S Skyhawk
with a Thielert turbo diesel engine with deliveries to start in
mid-2008. In an announcement at AOPA Expo in Hartford, Conn., Cessna
officials said the decision to offer the diesel came after extensive
market surveys and flight testing. "The Skyhawk is already the
best-selling, most-flown airplane ever with more than 43,000 delivered
and this option further expands the market due to the worldwide
availability of Jet A fuel," said John Doman, Cessna vice president of
propeller aircraft sales. Cessna will install the engines at its
Independence, Kan., factory under the supplementary type certificate
already held by Thielert. More... CESSNA
COMMITS TO BEND
The people of Bend, Ore. are likely sighing
relief today after Cessna CEO Jack Pelton said the Columbia Aircraft
plant will be maintained and there will also be "significant" investment
in the company if Cessna is the successful bidder for Columbia's assets.
"It will stay in Bend, Ore.," Pelton told a crowded news conference at
AOPA Expo in Hartford on Thursday. "That's where the workforce is."
Pelton also said Cessna's booming facilities in Kansas are at capacity
and there's no room to accommodate Columbia production. Pelton said the
intention is to continue production of the existing Columbia line and to
ramp up production to 250 airplanes a year. He also hinted the Columbia
plant will be involved with future production of the Next Generation
Piston line of aircraft but he did not elaborate. More... |
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» Visit Bose Corporation in booths 538 & 540 at the AOPA Expo
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HARTFORD
PACKS 'EM IN
This is the first time AOPA Expo has been held
in Hartford, and AOPA President Phil Boyer admitted on Thursday morning
that there was some concern whether the faithful would flock to this
remote corner of the world. "The leaves here aren't like we showed you
in all the pictures," he said -- trees remain robustly green and
temperatures a summerlike mid-80s, not the crisp New England autumn that
many expect to find in October. But he said the attendance numbers on
Thursday morning were the highest for any East Coast AOPA Expo ever.
More... VLJS?
THANKS, BUT WE PREFER CITABRIAS
AOPA Expo opened on Thursday
morning with a thousand pilots or so attending a general session on the
"megatrend" of owner-flown turbines, introduced by AOPA President Phil
Boyer and hosted by AOPA Pilot Editor-in-chief Tom Haines. The crowd
listened politely as Cessna CEO Jack Pelton and Matt Huff, of Williams
engines, talked up the wonders and virtues of the coming owner-flown
turbine fleet. But the one time the audience erupted in spontaneous
applause? When Jim Robins, a businessman who "operates" a TBM700 to get
to his homes and facilities around the country, mentioned the pure joy
of "flying" his vintage Citabria in the early morning amid the Santa Fe
mountains. Robins also raised some eyebrows in the crowd when he veered
from the industry refrain that turbine aircraft are "easier" to fly than
pistons. More... |
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» Visit Trade-A-Plane in booths 1021 & 1023 at the AOPA Expo
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PIPER'S
NEW MATRIX: A DEFLATED MIRAGE
Does the world really need an
unpressurized Piper Mirage? Piper thinks it does and at the AOPA Expo
show in Hartford this week, it announced the new Matrix which, although
technically a new type certificate, is really a variant of the
well-established Malibu/Mirage series. Piper CEO Jim Bass told AVweb
this week that it believes the Matrix will find a sweet spot in the
market because it will sell for an equipped price of $757,000, more that
$300,000 less that the price of a new Mirage. Because the airplane lacks
a pressure hull, it's less expensive to manufacture and has an empty
weight of around 150 pounds less than the Mirage. Bass says this will
offer owners high cruise speeds and payloads well into the teens and if
an owner wants to venture to the airplane's certificated 25,000-foot
ceiling, the Matrix will have an onboard oxygen system.
More... DIAMOND
ROLLS OUT TWO NEW DA40-BASED MODELS
It's axiomatic that to
survive in the business of general aviation, a manufacturer has to
constantly roll out new models or, at the very least, improved versions
of the standing product line. Diamond has done both and at this week's
AOPA Expo in Hartford, it announced two new variants of the DA40, the
XLS and CS. Diamond's Heike Larson told us this week that the XLS is a
bit more than a tarted up DA40 with nicer upholstery, although it does
have that. More... |
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» Visit Pilot Insurance Center (PIC) in booth
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MOONEY
ACCLAIM TYPE S: "UNQUESTIONABLY THE FASTEST"
After a year or
two of back-and-forth with Columbia Aircraft, with both companies claiming to
have the fastest piston single airplane, Mooney now says its Acclaim Type S model will take
the top spot, no questions asked. The Pilot's Operating Handbook for the
Type S (S is for "speed," of course) will show a 10-knot hike in top
speed, to 242 knots, David Copeland, vice president of sales, announced
at AOPA Expo in Hartford on Thursday afternoon. The extra knots come
from a new Hartzell propeller as well as several "aerodynamic
enhancements" that the company is not yet ready to reveal, Copeland
said. All current Acclaims from number 50 on up will get these
enhancements and earlier models will soon be offered speed-boosting
retrofits. The current Acclaim model will continue to be available as
well. More... ASPEN
AVIONICS EXPANDS FACILITY, ADDS NEW STAFF
Aspen Avionics
has accelerated its relocation plans to accommodate rapid growth, the
company announced on Thursday, and has moved into new corporate
headquarters almost a year ahead of schedule. The company nearly
quadrupled its space, moving from a 6,000-square-foot facility to
23,000-square-foot building in Albuquerque's TechCommons Business
Center. The company is in the final stages of certifying its new
Evolution Flight Display system and is transitioning from an R&D company
to a manufacturing company, with related expansion of customer support,
marketing and sales activities. "This is much more than a move or a
change of address for us," said Aspen's President and CEO John Uczekaj.
"The market's enthusiastic response to our Evolution Flight Display line
of products has validated our strategies. The additional space will
enable us both to manufacture and ship products faster, and to better
support our large and growing number of customers." More... |
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AOPA
EXPO 2007 GALLERY
Couldn't make it to the Aircraft Owners &
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» Visit Lockheed Martin in booth 203 at the AOPA Expo
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AVWEB'S
AOPA EXPO 2007 PODCAST #1: PIPER'S NEW MATRIX — A DEFLATED
MIRAGE
Back in the 1970s, Cessna introduced an
unpressurized version of its popular 340 called the 335. It turned out
to be a lukewarm seller. Now, Piper has its own run at offering a
non-pressurized high flyer, a new model it calls the Matrix and one
that's based on the six-place Mirage. Piper CEO Jim Bass explained the
details to AVWeb's Paul Bertorelli. More... |
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