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Pilatus has announced the first flight of its third prototype PC-24 twinjet. The March 6 maiden voyage of “series-conforming” aircraft P03, registered HB-VSA, lasted two hours and five minutes, taking off from Buochs Airport in Switzerland. P03, the last prototype, joins its two siblings in the flight-test program, which began in May 2015 when P01 first flew. Certification is expected in the fourth quarter.


Deliveries of the first PC-24s will begin shortly after certification, with the first going to <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2017-01-12/planesense-tapped-launch-customer-pilatus-pc-24" target="_blank">launch customer PlaneSense</a>. Pilatus stopped taking orders after signing sales contracts for the first 84 shortly after the program was announced in May 2013. Pilatus will install a “Zermatt” executive interior in HB-VSA, one of six interior and exterior themes designed in cooperation with BMW Designworks, and it will be on display at the European Business Aviation Convention &amp; Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, May 22 to 24.


Pilatus chairman Oscar Schwenk said, “The PC-24 flight-test program is proceeding as planned and the results are encouraging. The data we have so far indicates that our Swiss business jet exceeds published performance figures. I am naturally looking forward with immense anticipation to the moment when our first customers take delivery of their PC-24s.”

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