2009 New Business Jets: Composites, winglets and clean sheets

Despite the recession, a significant number of new aircraft programs remain largely on track.

By Mark Huber • Contributor

October 1, 2009

Despite the recession, a significant number of new aircraft programs remain largely on track. OEMs such as Cessna, Dassault Falcon Jet, Embraer and Gulfstream all appear to be staying close to their development schedules while Hawker Beechcraft has pushed back the Premier II until 2012 (from 2010). Newcomers Honda and Spectrum appear to have suffered some minor slippage, sending the earliest deliveries of those aircraft into 2011. Boeing delivered its first BBJ3, based on the 737-900ER, last year, but the interior was not installed until this year. The same can be said for the Embraer Lineage 1000, the Brazilian company’s entry into
the bizliner market. Therefore these two aircraft have been eliminated from this year’s update as they have been completed.

The significant new programs can be divided into two camps: modification of an existing design and more ambitious, true “clean sheet” new aircraft programs. Dassault and Hawker Beechcraft are engaged in the former while everyone else is pursuing the latter.

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