Cessna – always the perfect host – threw THE party for NBAA. More than 1,500 Cessna customers and friends were given the red carpet treatment at the Cessna Citation service center at Orlando International airport. Amid the extensive food selection and live music, guests had the unique opportunity to be among the first to see Cessna’s new light jets, the CJ1+, the Citation Mustang, and for the first time, the new CJ2+, viewing the cabins and meeting the pilots.
Source: Flight Daily News
French investigators have found that a Cessna 525A Citation departed Paris Le Bourget after personnel failed to realise nose-gear maintenance was incomplete, forcing the jet to return for a gear-up landing.
Textron Aviation now says it will exhibit at this month’s NBAA business aviation exhibition in Las Vegas, reserving course after last week backing out of the event amid a machinists strike in Wichita.
Textron Aviation’s machinists walked off the job on 23 September after members of the 5,000-strong work group voted down the company’s proposed new employment contract. The Wichita-based aircraft manufacturer, which owns the Cessna and Beechcraft brands, confirms that workers represented by the International Association of Machinists (IAM) went on strike. ...
