tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81356492325154088832024-03-15T18:10:56.087-07:00Caravan NationNews BlogCaravan Nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406522239832376160noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135649232515408883.post-2535023135271750982024-02-23T19:10:00.000-08:002024-02-23T19:10:34.120-08:00Caravan Seaplane Goes Down Near Miami<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdhvhzxLaPbxxOe7ZhUm-gGftrWOWPS5umqjMlHlYd0k8MxrSgtTp-IWx_Ck_Ol0qgStNLFFJfhDJIbWZfUBAVyn22OKkmVEFIIRhVmpSA1UYB3HeYW8FZYX0LPjRLnpQBduPNCh2-pUP8MY5Nnw8xIaYpaWtJh-PiMNnh4vHXbNe2XU8yX_BkFXSalw/s1080/Screenshot_20240223-210059.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="1080" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdhvhzxLaPbxxOe7ZhUm-gGftrWOWPS5umqjMlHlYd0k8MxrSgtTp-IWx_Ck_Ol0qgStNLFFJfhDJIbWZfUBAVyn22OKkmVEFIIRhVmpSA1UYB3HeYW8FZYX0LPjRLnpQBduPNCh2-pUP8MY5Nnw8xIaYpaWtJh-PiMNnh4vHXbNe2XU8yX_BkFXSalw/w400-h204/Screenshot_20240223-210059.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>A seaplane that departed West Palm Beach early Friday afternoon landed on its side in the water near Miami.</p><p>CBS News Miami reports seven people were rescued from the small plane after it went down in Government Cut, near the MacArthur Causeway. Footage from its helicopter showed the propeller still spinning as the blue-and-white plane lay on its side.</p><p>Everyone on the plane has been evacuated from it and no injuries were reported in the incident.</p><p>According to FlightAware, the tail number of the plane showed it took off from Palm Beach International Airport at 1:04 p.m. The page noted it was last seen at 1:37 p.m. near Miami.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://CaravanNation.com">CaravanNation.com</a></p>Caravan Nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406522239832376160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135649232515408883.post-85401396735886668952024-01-20T16:52:00.000-08:002024-01-20T16:52:38.519-08:00Southern Airways Express Caravan Lands on Freeway<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUK4Xsepoda1sCUGNZgYf2mVmnQFICosKwTXVvV9O-0Pe3mn9riJtcZf64YWsXxPd72U94CI9p52S6FEVz118TY9GN05fsnEtP66oT37n2dMjmxr0JJclIl2IWM0qNR6t_EvER2UfTlh5OyeWWwyvJeroDixqfgOkhjudzToUg5Xy6x7CV4WlYvNujGZ4/s975/bill-giger-plane-landing-2.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="975" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUK4Xsepoda1sCUGNZgYf2mVmnQFICosKwTXVvV9O-0Pe3mn9riJtcZf64YWsXxPd72U94CI9p52S6FEVz118TY9GN05fsnEtP66oT37n2dMjmxr0JJclIl2IWM0qNR6t_EvER2UfTlh5OyeWWwyvJeroDixqfgOkhjudzToUg5Xy6x7CV4WlYvNujGZ4/w640-h362/bill-giger-plane-landing-2.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As reported by NBC Washington</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">A roadway in Northern Virginia became an airplane’s runway during snowfall Friday. <span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;">A small airplane with seven people on board made an emergency landing on Loudoun County Parkway, Virginia State Police said and stunning video footage shows.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">No one on the plane or on the ground was hurt. <span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;">Southern Airways Express Flight 246 made its emergency landing at about 12:50 p.m. The plane landed in the southbound lanes of the parkway near Arcola Mills Drive. The area is close to Dulles International Airport.</span></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">Jesse Labell said he was driving along Loudon County Parkway when he suddenly saw the plane.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">“I look up and the plane’s like 20 feet above me and it lands like 20 feet in front of me. And, just driving, I’m like, ‘Uh, what’s going on?’ So, they go down, they land it. They got squirrely at the end here and crashed into the guardrail. I checked on everybody and saw if they were good,” he said.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">Two crew members and five passengers were aboard the plane, Southern Airways confirmed. Police said the passengers were four adults and a 15-year-old boy.</p></div><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">The pilot, a 27-year-old Florida man, was able to safely land the plane on the parkway without hitting any vehicles, a police spokesperson said. The only damage that occurred was to a guardrail on the right side of the parkway, she said.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">No one from the plane needed to be taken to a hospital, Loudoun County Fire and Rescue said.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLVxgftOFOuFg-20ZfwiR_ihTQ-y4eAP4x6jt3WvrjIx3oFnAbh6iupRCsiiG7pSiFuNpBnFp9eSbZjfLG6Pop1K_AXuMNW8Sk8ppj9bcU8mFmWBddUGp9e2qAV7coMhlXB4kCLHoT-sWuxJ1AqadAJZDu8XGNCwi-HO9z_rmXVR1ztGxS47vPMGY-J6E/s975/bill-giger-plane-landing-1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="975" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLVxgftOFOuFg-20ZfwiR_ihTQ-y4eAP4x6jt3WvrjIx3oFnAbh6iupRCsiiG7pSiFuNpBnFp9eSbZjfLG6Pop1K_AXuMNW8Sk8ppj9bcU8mFmWBddUGp9e2qAV7coMhlXB4kCLHoT-sWuxJ1AqadAJZDu8XGNCwi-HO9z_rmXVR1ztGxS47vPMGY-J6E/w640-h360/bill-giger-plane-landing-1.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">Dulles Airport officials said the small plane took off from the airport and then quickly made an emergency landing on the nearby parkway.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">In a statement shared at 1:30 p.m., airport officials said: "Dulles Airport received reports around 12:50pm of a departed aircraft landing off airport property on a nearby roadway. The aircraft was identified as Southern Airways Express flight 246. Responders from Loudoun County are managing the scene, and Dulles Airport remains open for takeoffs and landings."</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">The southbound lanes of Loudoun County Parkway were closed as police responded to the emergency landing, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) said in a social media statement. They reopened about 6 p.m.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">Loudoun County Fire & Rescue said there was a crew nearby when the plane landed, so crews were able to respond quickly.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">An image shared by VDOT showed traffic stopped and police lights flashing on the roadway as emergency responders handled the situation.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">The reasons for the emergency landing were not immediately shared, but winter weather caused traffic havoc around the D.C. area Friday. Conditions had forced a groundstop Friday morning at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">State police said the plane was a single-engine Cessna 208 Caravan.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">Stan Little, CEO of Southern Airways, released a statement saying: "We are relieved to report there were no injuries, and all passengers are safe and sound. We are thankful to our pilots, who did exactly what they were trained to do -- to put the safety of our passengers first. We are working closely with the authorities to thoroughly investigate the situation, and we will take all necessary precautions to ensure the safety and security of our passengers and our fleet."</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);">State police blocked off traffic and are now leading the investigation. Police said both the FAA and NTSB were notified.</p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9); flex: 0 0 calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6875rem; margin: 0px 30px 1.875rem 0px; max-width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px); padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-rendering: optimizespeed; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(87.4125% - 3.75px);"><a href="http://CaravanNation.com">CaravanNation.com</a></p>Caravan Nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406522239832376160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135649232515408883.post-20365603830682462402023-08-24T17:20:00.001-07:002023-08-24T17:20:54.784-07:00Surf Air Mobility Completes Acquisition of Southern Airways<p><br /></p><header style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #444444; display: table; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 125px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 835px;"><div style="display: table-cell; height: 126px; margin: 0px; max-width: 1124px; padding: 0px 1em; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="bw-release-subhead" style="margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><p class="bwalignc" style="list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Surf Air Mobility Completes Acquisition of Southern Airways</span></b></p><p class="bwalignc" style="list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: left;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXeZDKj-4KCiEncgt6vFB0hJqyjAJXmKvHeKzIbStN5XuZeVUjDB4bev7yex6bjamB9YnO05fXpPbzDn4CQJeSRI5vj1WRunkt0lBLCgx9xz0vHZCtOT3-uGEKeUSrauNBTfvrQCwi0nU3FT_9AsHiTTJKDNUY3Vvgo-ydvt0aZ8ot9a1JWWQLKGxMRIs/s848/surfair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="848" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXeZDKj-4KCiEncgt6vFB0hJqyjAJXmKvHeKzIbStN5XuZeVUjDB4bev7yex6bjamB9YnO05fXpPbzDn4CQJeSRI5vj1WRunkt0lBLCgx9xz0vHZCtOT3-uGEKeUSrauNBTfvrQCwi0nU3FT_9AsHiTTJKDNUY3Vvgo-ydvt0aZ8ot9a1JWWQLKGxMRIs/w647-h245/surfair.jpg" width="647" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="bwalignc" style="list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: 16px;">Combination Creates the Largest Commuter Airline in the U.S</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></b></p></div></div></header><div class="bw-release-body " style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1em;"><div class="bw-release-story" itemprop="articleBody" style="overflow: hidden;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">LOS ANGELES--(<span itemid="https://www.businesswire.com" itemprop="provider publisher copyrightHolder" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Organization"><span itemprop="name"><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/" itemprop="url" referrerpolicy="unsafe-url" rel="nofollow" style="color: #499ed6; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">BUSINESS WIRE</a></span></span>)--Surf Air Mobility Inc. (“Surf Air Mobility” or “SAM”), a regional air mobility platform aiming to sustainably connect the world’s communities, announced today that the transaction between Surf Air Mobility and Southern Airways (“Southern”) closed immediately prior to the listing of Surf Air Mobility on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SRFM” on July 27, 2023. The combination of Surf Air Mobility and Southern will provide the basis for SAM’s anticipated expanded, nationwide regional air mobility platform. Following the close of the transaction on July 27, 2023, Surf Air Mobility has 69,742,981 basic shares outstanding and 71,603,186 fully diluted shares outstanding.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><b>Operational and Financial Highlights, Surf Air and Southern together:</b></p><ul class="bwlistdisc" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 0px 0px 24px;"><li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">450,000 passengers across 48 cities with over 75,000 departures in 2022</li><li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Revenue of $100.6 million for the full year 2022, up 44.6% YoY on a combined basis<span style="font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span></li><li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Operating loss of $(111.7) million for the full year 2022, inclusive of $(33.4) million one-time transaction related expenses and $(38.2) million in stock based compensation</li><li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Cash on hand at July 27, 2023 of $34.7 million, with the ability to draw $100 million in cash advances under the GEM share subscription facility<span style="font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">3</span></li><li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Aircraft financing facility with Jetstream for up to $450 million to finance further expansion</li><li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Fleet order with Textron Aviation Inc. to enable the growth of SAM’s fleet by up to 150 Cessna Grand Caravans</li><li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 5px;">Exclusive provider to Textron Aviation Inc. of battery electric and hybrid electric powertrain technology for the Cessna Grand Caravan</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Surf Air Mobility also announced that it will release its financial results for the second quarter of 2023 and provide outlook for the full year 2023 the week of August 14, 2023.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">“Surf Air Mobility is building a regional air mobility platform to sustainably connect the world’s communities. We are thrilled to announce the completion of our transaction, combining Surf Air and Southern into Surf Air Mobility, the largest commuter airline in the US by scheduled departures. We are now well-positioned to build a platform that delivers accessible, affordable, and sustainable regional travel for our customers,” said Stan Little, CEO of Surf Air Mobility. “Our public listing is just the beginning, and we look forward to sharing our journey as we execute on our vision to advance the future of flight.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Surf Air Mobility intends to accelerate the adoption of green flying by developing, together with its commercial partners, hybrid-electric and fully-electric powertrain technology to upgrade existing fleets. By creating a financing and services infrastructure to enable this transition at an industry-wide level, Surf Air Mobility believes it can bring electrified aircraft to market at scale and substantially reduce the cost and environmental impact of regional flying. Surf Air Mobility believes such cost and environmental impact reductions are achievable by the end of the decade, and that operating as a publicly-traded company and having efficient access to growth capital will enable and accelerate the implementation of its strategic plan.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Sudhin Shahani, co-founder of Surf Air Mobility, continued, “Our end-state is electrification, but our flywheel begins with flying more passengers via network expansion and providing solutions to operators via Aircraft-as-a-Service (ACaaS), which we believe will drive growth in the near- and mid-term. Surf Air Mobility is a scaled – and growing – regional air travel company today, and we believe our path to electrification via supplemental type certification (‘STC’) will position us as a capital efficient, technology-enabled, first mover in the regional air ecosystem.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; text-align: center;"><a href="http://CaravanNation.com">CaravanNation.com</a></p></div></div>Caravan Nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406522239832376160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135649232515408883.post-25037285995755686732023-07-18T12:11:00.002-07:002023-07-18T12:11:31.040-07:00Tragic Caravan Crash at Skydive Warszawa<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTsxOxkAjdHa3Gu34IgCJPNNB2ickXckvrcWZROgYq8rtVlwewgTApAX-zqXYVmklNEYPMJt3Mf3Yl10JKQI5iYRfrQOGzQVnoctNcOpW3fi-ZUk6thDgUmt3hvKmx4SZJZvhJtLCFOyBNiNV-auU69X_nTaCDr790dQMIs3NSdJb2VvTtoG9FBENKTmQ6/s1125/received_1626148471129270.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1094" data-original-width="1125" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTsxOxkAjdHa3Gu34IgCJPNNB2ickXckvrcWZROgYq8rtVlwewgTApAX-zqXYVmklNEYPMJt3Mf3Yl10JKQI5iYRfrQOGzQVnoctNcOpW3fi-ZUk6thDgUmt3hvKmx4SZJZvhJtLCFOyBNiNV-auU69X_nTaCDr790dQMIs3NSdJb2VvTtoG9FBENKTmQ6/w400-h389/received_1626148471129270.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">As reported by AP</span> </p><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: inherit; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px;">WARSAW, Poland -- </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px;">Five people were killed and eight others were injured Monday when a Cessna 208 plane crashed into a hangar at a sky diving center during bad weather, authorities said.</span></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The plane's pilot and four people sheltering in the hangar from stormy weather died in the afternoon crash in Chrcynno in central Poland, firefighters spokesperson Monika Nowakowska-Brynda said.</p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">An additional eight people were injured, two of them seriously, police said. A child was among the injured, the provincial governor, Sylwester Dabrowski, said.</p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Chrcynno is about 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of Warsaw.</p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Firefighters and airborne ambulances took the injured to hospitals in the Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki area.</p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Rescuers were still checking the hangar for additional victims, said Katarzyna Urbanowska, another spokesperson for local firefighters.</p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk TjIX aGjv" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Prosecutors and police were investigating the cause of the accident.</p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It was the worst accident related to sky diving in Poland since 2014, when 11 people were killed in a crash of a small plane in Topolow, near the southern city of Czestochowa.</p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbRq0V8mkmXuX1tIeAsPQRe5l_LsxsReVP-y_WWu9XNsFuOpk07qK2686ytJCa8j1V9pzkC2vPPvNHfiqjVY2-LnFj005-S_QV8aZS2NlPLbs3Gnpnozo77QXlEJ1SM27eneLnBwLgr4zCVwC75KM756JC5bEAxrBIuxTOTIQ_48CxMSXm8jsT4eb0g2e/s1920/received_2017433408595670.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="1920" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbRq0V8mkmXuX1tIeAsPQRe5l_LsxsReVP-y_WWu9XNsFuOpk07qK2686ytJCa8j1V9pzkC2vPPvNHfiqjVY2-LnFj005-S_QV8aZS2NlPLbs3Gnpnozo77QXlEJ1SM27eneLnBwLgr4zCVwC75KM756JC5bEAxrBIuxTOTIQ_48CxMSXm8jsT4eb0g2e/w640-h253/received_2017433408595670.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">According to ASN:</p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><table style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-collapse: collapse; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, "Sans Serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Operator:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/operators/10778" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Skydive Warsaw</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Registration:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SP-WAW</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">MSN:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">208B0854</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">First flight:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2000</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Engines:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">1 <a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/engine/PW-PT6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Crew:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Passengers:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Total:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ground casualties:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fatalities: 4</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aircraft damage:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Damaged beyond repair</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Location:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chrcynno Airfield (<img height="\"11\"" src="https://aviation-safety.net/database/country/flags_15/SP.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="\"16\"" /> <a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/countries/SP" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Poland</a>)</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Phase:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Initial climb (ICL)</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nature:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Training</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Departure airport:</td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/airports/EPNC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chrcynno Airfield (EPNC)</a>, Poland</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td class="caption" style="font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><nobr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Destination airport:</nobr></td><td class="desc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/airports/EPNC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Chrcynno Airfield (EPNC)</a>, Poland</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="caption" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, "Sans Serif"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Narrative:</span><br style="color: #663300; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, "Sans Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, "Sans Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan skydiving plane crashed into a hangar while performing touch-and-goes as part of a training flight. Gusty conditions were reportedly present at the time of the accident.</span></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, "Sans Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Witnesses spoke of a thunderstorm that had passed over the area and strong winds. Many people who were around the airfield were seeking shelter in the hangar. One of the three pilots sustained fatal injuries and the fire service confirmed a total of five fatalities and five injuries.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The accident occurred around 17:00-18:00 UTC. Weather reported at the Modlin Airport, 18 km SW of Chrcynno:<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />EPMO 171800Z 17012G22KT 140V210 9999 SCT035CB 21/18 Q1014 RETS<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />EPMO 171730Z 25013KT 9999 VCTS SCT056CB 30/11 Q1013<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />EPMO 171700Z 27011KT 9999 FEW048CB SCT055TCU 30/11 Q1013<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />EPMO 171630Z 24011KT 9999 FEW055TCU 30/13 Q1013</span></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, "Sans Serif"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="Ekqk yuUa lqtk eTIW sUzS" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An Air Nation Group website</span></p>Caravan Nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406522239832376160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135649232515408883.post-89942816429910530962023-01-20T17:39:00.000-08:002023-12-15T09:42:52.391-08:00The 3,000th Cessna Caravan Delivered!<p><a rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--primary-brand-color); font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">WICHITA, Kan. </a><span face=""Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px;">(January 13, 2023) – Textron Aviation</span><span face=""Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px;"> </span><span face=""Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px;">today announced it has delivered a Cessna Grand Caravan EX to Brazilian aviation company Azul Conecta, a subsidiary of Azul Airlines based at the airport of Jundiai in São Paulo. This aircraft represents the 3,000th Cessna Caravan family turboprop delivered worldwide, reinforcing the Caravan as the most popular utility turboprop in the world. Azul Conecta transports travelers from smaller cities and remote locations throughout Brazil.</span></p><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 193.781px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WICHITA, Kan. </a>(January 13, 2023) – <a href="https://ontextron-my.sharepoint.com/personal/c55931_txt_textron_com/Documents/Desktop/www.txtav.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Textron Aviation</a><a href="https://ontextron-my.sharepoint.com/personal/c55931_txt_textron_com/Documents/Desktop/www.txtav.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> </a>today announced it has delivered a Cessna Grand Caravan EX to Brazilian aviation company Azul Conecta, a subsidiary of Azul Airlines based at the airport of Jundiai in São Paulo. This aircraft represents the 3,000th Cessna Caravan family turboprop delivered worldwide, reinforcing the Caravan as the most popular utility turboprop in the world. Azul Conecta transports travelers from smaller cities and remote locations throughout Brazil." href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__media-item magnificPopup-container viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><div class="c-video c-video--md widescreen" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 24px auto; max-height: 1e+06px; max-width: 928px; position: relative; width: 736px;"><div class="fluid-width-video-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 414px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 736px;"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="true" class="embedly-embed" frameborder="0" id="fitvid302679" scrolling="no" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FS53qiI2LFv8%3Fwmode%3Dtransparent%26feature%3Doembed&wmode=transparent&display_name=YouTube&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DS53qiI2LFv8&image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FS53qiI2LFv8%2Fhqdefault.jpg&key=fff19fb0fdb111df84894040444cdc60&type=text%2Fhtml&schema=youtube" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 414px; left: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 736px;" title="YouTube embed"></iframe></div><div class="c-video__caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 8px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-left: 15px; position: relative;">Textron Aviation delivers 3,000th Cessna Caravan family aircraft</div></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">The Cessna Caravan and Cessna Grand Caravan EX are designed and manufactured by Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company.</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 64.5938px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="The <a href="https://cessna.txtav.com/en/turboprop/caravan" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cessna Caravan</a> and <a href="https://cessna.txtav.com/en/turboprop/grand-caravan-ex" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cessna Grand Caravan EX</a> are designed and manufactured by Textron Aviation Inc., a <a href="https://ontextron-my.sharepoint.com/personal/c55931_txt_textron_com/Documents/Desktop/www.textron.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Textron Inc.</a> (NYSE:TXT) company." href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; 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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">Textron Aviation employees and representatives from Azul Conecta celebrated this significant milestone with a special delivery ceremony at Textron Aviation’s location in Independence, Kansas.</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 96.8906px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="Textron Aviation employees and representatives from Azul Conecta celebrated this significant milestone with a special delivery ceremony at Textron Aviation’s location in Independence, Kansas." href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">“The Cessna Caravan’s versatility and reliability have made it the most popular aircraft in the utility turboprop category, with now 3,000 delivered globally,” said Lannie O’Bannion, senior vice president of Sales and Flight Operations at Textron Aviation. “I’m thankful to customers like Azul Conecta who continuously rely on the Caravan family of aircraft to fulfill their missions, deliver solutions and improve lives around the world.”</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 161.484px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="“The Cessna Caravan’s versatility and reliability have made it the most popular aircraft in the utility turboprop category, with now 3,000 delivered globally,” said Lannie O’Bannion, senior vice president of Sales and Flight Operations at Textron Aviation. “I’m thankful to customers like Azul Conecta who continuously rely on the Caravan family of aircraft to fulfill their missions, deliver solutions and improve lives around the world.”" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; 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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">Conceived as a rugged utility aircraft with low operating costs, the Caravan was designed for use in remote areas with extreme weather changes, mountainous terrain and rough landing conditions. The aircraft’s versatility became renowned in all corners of the world, and the Caravan continues to see wide use in global markets by a variety of customers, including government agencies, law enforcement and militaries, air ambulance operators, freight haulers, corporations and humanitarian organizations.</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 193.781px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="Conceived as a rugged utility aircraft with low operating costs, the Caravan was designed for use in remote areas with extreme weather changes, mountainous terrain and rough landing conditions. The aircraft’s versatility became renowned in all corners of the world, and the Caravan continues to see wide use in global markets by a variety of customers, including government agencies, law enforcement and militaries, air ambulance operators, freight haulers, corporations and humanitarian organizations." href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__empty-row viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p class="empty-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 30px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"></p></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">“This Grand Caravan EX will proudly fly the Brazilian skies and connect our 158 destinations, many of which are made possible by the aircraft’s utility and flexibility,” said Flavio Costa, chief technical officer of Azul and president of Azul Conecta. “As a longtime Textron Aviation customer with a fleet of over 25 Cessna aircraft, we are happy to be a part of this important milestone.”</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 161.484px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="“This Grand Caravan EX will proudly fly the Brazilian skies and connect our 158 destinations, many of which are made possible by the aircraft’s utility and flexibility,” said Flavio Costa, chief technical officer of Azul and president of Azul Conecta. “As a longtime Textron Aviation customer with a fleet of over 25 Cessna aircraft, we are happy to be a part of this important milestone.”" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__empty-row viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p class="empty-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 30px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"></p></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">Customers can choose between four models of the Cessna Caravan aircraft to best fit their mission: the Caravan 208, the Grand Caravan EX 208B, the Caravan Amphibian and the Grand Caravan EX Amphibian.</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 96.8906px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="Customers can choose between four models of the Cessna Caravan aircraft to best fit their mission: the Caravan 208, the Grand Caravan EX 208B, the Caravan Amphibian and the Grand Caravan EX Amphibian." href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__empty-row viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p class="empty-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 30px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"></p></div><div class="article-block article-block__h2 viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><a class="header_anchor" id="cessna-caravan-program-milestones" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--primary-brand-color); display: block; max-height: 1e+06px; position: relative; top: -100px; visibility: hidden;"></a><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 12px 0px 0.5em; max-height: 1e+06px;">Cessna Caravan program milestones</h2><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 36px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="Cessna Caravan program milestones" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1981 Cessna launched the Caravan program</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1981&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cessna launched the Caravan program</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1982 First flight of Caravan 208 prototype</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1982&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First flight of Caravan 208 prototype</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1984 Caravan 208 received FAA type certification</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1984&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Caravan 208 received FAA type certification</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1985 Cessna began deliveries of the Caravan 208</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1985&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cessna began deliveries of the Caravan 208</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1985 Caravan 208 approved for amphibious floats</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1985&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Caravan 208 approved for amphibious floats</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1986 Caravan 208B Super Cargomaster, stretched by four feet in a freight specific configuration, received FAA type certification</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 64.5938px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1986&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Caravan 208B Super Cargomaster, stretched by four feet in a freight specific configuration, received FAA type certification</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1990 First production Grand Caravan 208B delivered</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1990&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First production Grand Caravan 208B delivered</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1998 Delivery of 1,000th production Caravan 208</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1998&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Delivery of 1,000th production Caravan 208</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">1998 Cessna began deliveries of the new standard Caravan 208, a Caravan 208 that features a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A engine rated at 675 shaft horsepower</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 64.5938px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>1998&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cessna began deliveries of the new standard Caravan 208, a Caravan 208 that features a Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PT6A-114A engine rated at 675 shaft horsepower</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">2002 Delivery of 1,000th Grand Caravan 208B</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>2002&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Delivery of 1,000th Grand Caravan 208B</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">2005 Delivery of 1,500th production Cessna 208</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>2005&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Delivery of 1,500th production Cessna 208</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; 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box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>2008&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Garmin G1000 becomes standard avionics equipment</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">2008 TKS ice protection offered</li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">2010 2,000th Caravan delivered to DHL partner Air St. Kitts-Nevis</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; 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box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">2013 Cessna began deliveries of Grand Caravan EX 208B, featuring a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 engine rated at 867 shaft horsepower</li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 64.5938px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cessna began deliveries of Grand Caravan EX 208B, featuring a Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada PT6A-140 engine rated at 867 shaft horsepower</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" face="icomoon !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.525px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-inline-start: 20px;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 18px; max-height: 1e+06px;">2017 G1000 NXi becomes standard on Caravan and Grand Caravan EX </li></ul><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32.2969px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<ul><li>2017&nbsp; &nbsp;G1000 NXi becomes standard on Caravan and Grand Caravan EX&nbsp;</li></ul>" href="https://media.txtav.com/221919-textron-aviation-delivers-3-000th-cessna-caravan-family-aircraft-grand-caravan-ex-joins-azul-conecta-airline-fleet-in-brazil#" style="background-color: transparent; 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font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09slfGh7bgBIUymufKUQSkvQD2ehGWTgVHWlpmGE_k51IbHDZI3wayxX_LE5op5SaPnqA_maH6vsMaEAj-BPhqE6T9XBcaj5Up4y2NVv9JpMlS3OjsHwLV5rnBVM5ys7qx366VjFOdm4/s512/caravanice.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="512" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09slfGh7bgBIUymufKUQSkvQD2ehGWTgVHWlpmGE_k51IbHDZI3wayxX_LE5op5SaPnqA_maH6vsMaEAj-BPhqE6T9XBcaj5Up4y2NVv9JpMlS3OjsHwLV5rnBVM5ys7qx366VjFOdm4/w640-h414/caravanice.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">n the Northern Hemisphere Winter is right around the corner, and with it comes increased chances that the Caravan that you fly will have an icing encounter. Are you familiar with the various steps that you can take to help manage the impact of an icing encounter? Whether you own, fly or manage a Cessna Caravan, we here at </span><b style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://Caravannation.com" target="_blank">Caravan Nation</a></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> recommend that you, not only read this article, but print and save the below listed operating tips for future reference.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The operating tips listed below are part of the FedEx Caravan Icing Program. A program that you should acknowledge and possibly incorporate it into your own program. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the Caravan, like every other airplane, you can help manage the impact of an icing encounter by remembering two general rules: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A)</b> Keep the airspeed/power up and, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>B)</b> Keep the deck angle/AOA down. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Additionally we recommend that you consider the following:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Make sure that you receive a thorough weather briefing. Know the right questions to ask, and don't hesitate to ask them.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Compare frontal movement with the proposed flight path, remember to look well up-wind of your course line to see what kind of weather is approaching your flight path.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Pre-flight ALL of the aircraft anti/de-ice systems for proper operation and cycle sequences.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Periodically wax areas of the aircraft that are exposed to ice accumulation: e.g.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Nose wheel fairings & accessories (not the shock)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Engine cowling</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Cargo pod</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Wing-strut/wing-joint area including tie-down hook</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Main landing gear dressing including brake-pad housing, but not the brake-disk</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Gurney-strip of the trailing edge of the flaps</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Left & right outer elevator horn</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Exercise self-discipline and try to envision ALL possible "What if (s)" that might be encountered during the initial take-off and climb in icing conditions.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6. Use of flaps for take-off should be carefully evaluated when icing is anticipated during departure.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">7. Remember... snow, slush, or water standing on the runway will greatly increase the required take-off distance, as well as landing roll. Be particularly careful when a take-off is being conducted. Slow acceleration to liftoff speed followed by an ABORT will require considerably more runway. Therefore, where a choice can be made, pick the longest runway for both take-off and landing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">8. After take-off, increase speed to 110-115 kts as quickly as possible. This will help keep ice formation on the protected areas of the aircraft. Continue to climb with a minimum deck-angle.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">9. At airports where SIDs are used, pick a direction of departure which has the lowest climb-gradient. Once you are at a safe altitude you can then proceed to your destination.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">10. Constantly monitor & assess the icing situation of your aircraft. Be particularly alert to OAT changes during the climb. Observing the OAT during your climb to altitude can provide clues which could save your life.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">11. Consider not using the auto-pilot when operating in ice. This is not to imply that the auto-pilot is not approved for ice operation, but that a pilot can not possibly know how the aircraft is FEELING if the auto-pilot is engaged.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">12. When encountering icing and the airspeed begins to drop below 130 KIAS, MAXIMUM CONTINUOUS POWER e.g. 1865# torque/805 C ITT (675 HP) as applicable, should be used.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">13. De-ice boots are more effective at higher airspeeds. At lower speeds effectiveness may be improved by SMOOTHLY changing the pitch attitude as the boots are being MANUALLY inflated which will allow the changing relative wind to assist in removing the ice from the wing leading edge.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">14. A vibration may occur as ice starts to build on the propeller hub and the back side of the blade near the hub. Under extreme conditions the vibration may continue to increase the the point where the instrument panel begins to shake. In conditions of MODERATE and above accumulation rates, the automatic propeller anti-ice system may not be sufficient to keep the propeller clear of ice. Under these conditions, consider using the MANUAL propeller anti-ice feature and briskly cycling the prop between the maximum and minimum RPM (minimum 200 RPM change) to assist in removing the ice.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">15. Don't keep flying into deteriorating conditions. Have a plan, e.g. climb, descend or turn to get to less severe conditions if it become necessary. KEEP YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS AHEAD OF THE AIRPLANE. DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF TO RUN OUT OF OPTIONS!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">16. Communicate your situation with ATC. Keep them advised of your icing problems. Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. Failing to use all of the resources at your disposal is sellling yourself short. DON'T LET A MACHO ATTITUDE OVERLOAD YOUR BOAT!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">17. Monitor the terminal approach frequency while you are still in the enroute portion. This will allow you to listen-in on any problems other pilots may be encountering while in their attempt to land. During the approach keep your air-speed at least 15-20 knots higher than normal. Stall speed increases with ice accumulation.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">18. Do not cycle the boots during landing since boot inflation may increase stall speeds by as much as 10 knots.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">19. Fly the aircraft down-to-the-ground, do not attempt a normal flare-out to a stalled landing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have any questions about this article, use the contact form on <b><a href="http://CaravanNation.com" target="_blank">CaravanNation.com</a> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Always remember to... <i>"Never stop learning. 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The final G-1 issue paper defines the certification basis for the company’s Supplemental Type Certification (STC) on the Cessna 208 Caravan, a popular cargo aircraft. This STC will enhance safety by enabling continuous autopilot engagement through all phases of aircraft operation, including taxi, takeoff, cruise, landing, braking and rollout, with a single pilot on board for abnormal procedures.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;">“We are very appreciative of the FAA’s noteworthy attention to detail and ongoing support,” said Mark Mondt, Director of Certification at Reliable Robotics. “This certification basis is the culmination of years of work with the FAA and represents a key step towards bringing advanced navigation and autoflight systems to normal category aircraft. We look forward to continuing our work together as we move into the next phase of the certification process.”</span></p><p style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">The FAA uses issue papers to provide a structured means of describing and tracking the resolution of significant technical and regulatory issues that occur during a certification project. The signed G-1 issue paper represents formal agreement between Reliable Robotics and the FAA on the applicable airworthiness and environmental requirements for the company’s advanced automation system.</p><p style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Today, Controlled Flight Into Terrain and Loss of Control are the #1 and #2 causes of fatal accidents in small aircraft. Advanced automation systems will reduce the occurrence of these accidents and bring an unprecedented level of safety to commercial aviation through precision navigation, sophisticated flight planning and robust flight controls.</p><p style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><b>About Reliable Robotics</b></p><p style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Reliable Robotics launched in 2017 to bring safe, certified autonomous vehicles to commercial aviation as soon as possible. The company’s automation system enables remote operation of any aircraft type and will expand access to more locations. Reliable’s vision is to transform the way we move goods and people around the planet with safer, more convenient and more affordable air transportation. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, and has a distributed global workforce. 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Commuter airline? <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.soundsair.com/about-us/fleet/cessna-caravan/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sure</a>. Military? <a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cessna_208_Caravan_operators" style="box-sizing: border-box;">31 different air forces</a> fly them. Island-hopping? Indeed, in the <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.stbarthcommuter.com/en/about-st-barth-commuter.php" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Caribbean</a>, the <a dir="ltr" href="https://mokuleleairlines.com/our-fleet/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hawaiian Islands</a>, the <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.greekairtaxinetwork.com/grand-caravan-joins-the-greek-air-taxi-network/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Greek Isles</a>, <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.susiair.com/fleet/cessna-grand-caravan" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Indonesia</a> and more. Bush flying? Yep, in the <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.auricair.com/General/cessna_caravan_c208Bex" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Serengeti</a>, the <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.kimberleyairtours.com.au/fleet/cessna-208-grand-caravan/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Australian Outback</a>, the <a dir="ltr" href="https://airlinegeeks.com/2020/02/23/trip-report-crossing-brazil-s-midwest-with-asta-s-grand-caravan/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Amazon jungle</a>, you name it. Cargo? <a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cessna_208_Caravan_operators" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fedex</a> has 239 of them. Air ambulance? <a dir="ltr" href="https://islandairambulance.com/Aircraft" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Good to go</a>. Arctic Circle in your travel plans? <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.beringair.com/charters/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">No sweat</a>. If you’re on an <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.flyrusts.com/rusts-flying-history/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alaskan glacier lake tour</a>, chances are you’re in a Caravan outfitted with floats. And skydive operations routinely rank the Caravan as one of the <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.skydivecsc.com/skydiving-aircraft" style="box-sizing: border-box;">best jump planes</a> around. The Caravan is the “<a dir="ltr" href="https://www.asa2fly.com/Caravan-Cessnas-Swiss-Army-Knife-with-Wings-Softcover-P1051.aspx#Description" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Swiss Army Knife with Wings</a>,” and you can find them literally all over the world. Fortunately, every once in a while Cessna brings a brand new one to Houston to show it off…</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUvzcMJKQgnYyyiSb6778YEqwVU4Mtiwp-tkoRSf15IyrbB-ScvYtTCoR9rj39697FS4LW5wkLgdcEbeb9wh9uWmqUjJvY4x6vS0xNo2l3W806kUlwrOH3rzpec_ToL5EK2IC8VuXMF2wQF4WC7x09zTx76lMBjhvtntWAAuE7JZIFXhMy6avqmma_=s1019" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="1019" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUvzcMJKQgnYyyiSb6778YEqwVU4Mtiwp-tkoRSf15IyrbB-ScvYtTCoR9rj39697FS4LW5wkLgdcEbeb9wh9uWmqUjJvY4x6vS0xNo2l3W806kUlwrOH3rzpec_ToL5EK2IC8VuXMF2wQF4WC7x09zTx76lMBjhvtntWAAuE7JZIFXhMy6avqmma_=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I first got excited about the Caravan a few years ago when I met Chris Rosenfelt (my ATOP B-737 sim partner), who runs Caravan Nation (and its fantastic Instagram page) — he’s dropped countless skydivers out of Caravans and is a huge advocate for the plane. Then over lunch, Cessna’s Derek Moore explained that Cessna was seeing increasing interest in the Caravan as personal transport, with orders for the optional “executive” interior ticking up. About the same time, my email to the legal community announcing my law retirement in favor of flying generated a surprising number of “Can you fly me to out-of-town hearings?” responses. I wondered, could the Caravan serve as an all-in-one charter business and family plane?</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I jumped at Derek’s offer to test-fly the Caravan. First, I downloaded and studied Flight Safety’s 298-page Caravan-flying manual. Normally when researching a plane I’d also tinker with its weight-and-balance limitations (i.e. what can it carry and how far?), but that seemed silly here: the Caravan has a whopping 3300-lb. useful load. Even with 4 hours of fuel on board, it’ll launch 7 passengers and their luggage. Basically, if you can fit it in the door, the C208 can carry it. And it has some (four!) sizeable doors.</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">I met Derek at Sugar Land Airport, and we did a hands-on walk-through of the highlights. The first thing you notice about the Caravan is that it’s BIG — the tarmac shaded by its high, 52’ wingspan was perfect for a preflight chat. And at 14’ tall, it dominates the ramp. The plane’s new — 150 hours on it — and sported the most popular options: a creamy executive interior, purposeful underbelly cargo pod, and 29” (mountain-bike sized!) tires, to name a few. </p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Time to fly! I climbed the tall steps and slid into the pilot’s seat through the only pilot-specific door I’ve ever used (the co-pilot has his own door). Guiding me from the right seat was Terry Allenbaugh, Cessna’s Caravan guru whose pedigree stretches back to flying C208 serial no. 8 all over Ethiopia in the 1980s. Terry’s colleague Austin Bally and Derek relaxed in the spacious cabin, with Derek helpfully adding C208 bells-and-whistles commentary along the way.</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Unlike all the smaller planes I’ve typically flown (except the Piper Meridian), the Caravan is a turboprop: a propeller-driven plane powered not by a piston engine but a turbine, in this case the ultra-reliable 675-hp Pratt & Whitney PT6A. So while the Garmin G1000 panel looked familiar, I welcomed Terry’s advice on the turboprop-specific aspects of the throttle quadrant.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTscqNvRScMmpEgCK8X0ql6ax1vFaj9jyox1BnGsMFUSoJ3OgKpPogY8mD5nkmlucXfTpP4eIxR-Ar4d7pHShWhD-VoUBo4gav9RBikN8IMXSJKby8HNiKZrLYOHTHqCOQopLba4OfZJ4JpXEfSYtDMYJ1Ak9z02LKEyuMZ3MRLaNJGwiO8f7nbKqi=s1034" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1034" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTscqNvRScMmpEgCK8X0ql6ax1vFaj9jyox1BnGsMFUSoJ3OgKpPogY8mD5nkmlucXfTpP4eIxR-Ar4d7pHShWhD-VoUBo4gav9RBikN8IMXSJKby8HNiKZrLYOHTHqCOQopLba4OfZJ4JpXEfSYtDMYJ1Ak9z02LKEyuMZ3MRLaNJGwiO8f7nbKqi=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnbPfFjHC5sQEH-dN2kXV1loKbz0KXkNHDfQ5Paeqm7kMtSwFn9NSZAriEjzOrU-yx-IHcc8dt6EDpEtpnXf3WbD5UGDBt9vxZJWPXKAehLcej5f3HM-btcFvu8iAX13Jgloduhjc7h0PBGoI49BF6RF2YcAe4NK1K6XOtIFRVhSZPXZMEQZMA61er=s1027" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1027" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnbPfFjHC5sQEH-dN2kXV1loKbz0KXkNHDfQ5Paeqm7kMtSwFn9NSZAriEjzOrU-yx-IHcc8dt6EDpEtpnXf3WbD5UGDBt9vxZJWPXKAehLcej5f3HM-btcFvu8iAX13Jgloduhjc7h0PBGoI49BF6RF2YcAe4NK1K6XOtIFRVhSZPXZMEQZMA61er=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">On its simple start-up, the Caravan delivered the sweet whine of a turbine spool-up. No piston catch-and-fire here! A call to Sugar Land ground control, and we were taxing to the runway. After a short take-off briefing, I set the standard 20-degrees of flaps for take-off and advanced the power. Rotation speed is 70kts (70, in this giant bird!) and with nothing more than a slight release of the yoke, the plane flew itself off the runway after an astonishingly short (1500’) ground run. Terry had warned me that all that power required solid right rudder on climb-out, and he was right. </p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">In no time, we were cruising smoothly southwest at 1700’ in this iconic airplane! Under the Caravan’s giant wing, the view from the cockpit is panoramic. No wonder whale-watching, bear-seeking, and safari photo-shooters love this plane.</p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">A smaller craft might have been pushed around by Houston’s summer thermals, but not the Caravan — it’s heft seemed to smooth out the otherwise bumpy air. So too, its robust A/C mocked the soaring mid-August heat. As stout as it is, I expected the C208 to handle ponderously. Not so: it rolled in and out of steep turns surprisingly lightly (although I had to override its envelope protection — with Terry’s permission — to roll it more than 45 degrees). I ignored the Garmin autopilot and hand-flew it the whole time, enjoying every minute. It’s a hoot to fly!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht_No16UNn5t7xv4L3dc81niMaRjtD0pRkGrHXH9rAmsvRR-0zd8u63WVAGg4n9Ax0LABH1irhiDIJkcmTiC1TaXCiwwE8hlG6iVO8nr4DcyU8SL53n-KH-LjmzqPsQMRy2mtWQrqulwUxiZxR1G6WgPaiUZyAH2BkV5K-eidxK4oiiNVSEJwI3j1P=s1002" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1002" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEht_No16UNn5t7xv4L3dc81niMaRjtD0pRkGrHXH9rAmsvRR-0zd8u63WVAGg4n9Ax0LABH1irhiDIJkcmTiC1TaXCiwwE8hlG6iVO8nr4DcyU8SL53n-KH-LjmzqPsQMRy2mtWQrqulwUxiZxR1G6WgPaiUZyAH2BkV5K-eidxK4oiiNVSEJwI3j1P=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.143rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;">Time to land came too soon, but landing the Caravan was the highlight for me. There’s no need to really flare it — again, Bruce Bohannon’s mantra worked well: “Glide it down, round it out, let it settle, hold it back.” But on touchdown the Caravan’s turbine engine allows a “beta” mode, which basically reverses the propeller pitch to create backwards thrust. So immediately after the wheels were down — again on Terry’s advice — I yanked the power lever from idle to max beta, and a dramatic whoosh signaled the prop was actively slowing us. As a result, our landing roll was over by the first exit on SGR’s Runway 17, 1800’ tops. That’s short field performance! I taxied in with a Caravan-sized grin!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8Ba_aVgf7Ge6EOUoMouxTTEY9_m_enmmfunkoIpXddgM-4ajQHRzroKi86-80uP8HMvhNyBjpYEy--3CguPc7AqLqCF_ut5gIlxO-Re509TIB3RkyH0F2HcFTUiGTtyKjvlcG72eEowAiTzKcKDJmF74r09arC2P0neKTx8OI5a7DydGNdjgpedev=s1027" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1027" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8Ba_aVgf7Ge6EOUoMouxTTEY9_m_enmmfunkoIpXddgM-4ajQHRzroKi86-80uP8HMvhNyBjpYEy--3CguPc7AqLqCF_ut5gIlxO-Re509TIB3RkyH0F2HcFTUiGTtyKjvlcG72eEowAiTzKcKDJmF74r09arC2P0neKTx8OI5a7DydGNdjgpedev=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;">I owe a huge thanks to the Cessna team. I learned a great deal from Terry’s steady guidance. And Derek makes a compelling case for the Caravan. It remains to be seen whether it’s the right plane to take Humphries Aviation to the next level. But, the Caravan’s fun to fly, and it’s good enough for Jimmy Buffett. So it’s a strong contender!</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://CaravanNation.com">CaravanNation.com</a></div></div></div>Caravan Nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406522239832376160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135649232515408883.post-35674350983061259002021-07-23T21:16:00.003-07:002021-07-23T21:16:45.864-07:00Surf Air Mobility Orders 150 Cessna Caravan EX to Electrify<h1 class="h1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Termina, sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; text-transform: uppercase;">TEXTRON AVIATION ANNOUNCES ORDER FOR UP TO 150 CESSNA GRAND CARAVAN EX AIRCRAFT TO AID SURF AIR MOBILITY IN ACCELERATING ELECTRIFIED COMMERCIAL TRAVEL</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8eIEQ_2bDkubEpbT8ImRP-Vc8I49lMcxMElQ1QoyjO34__EBA7KKfIGH2YHVT9N07rr8d6vGpFt7nKgOxGhrZHxhv6Udpoz7S6V-z3yeeDCHQxQpa83iEe27Xg2-Hy8GHzHZxq0c8qQ/s2048/397356-Hybrid+electric+Grand+Caravan-ea29ca-original-1626716858.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="2048" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp8eIEQ_2bDkubEpbT8ImRP-Vc8I49lMcxMElQ1QoyjO34__EBA7KKfIGH2YHVT9N07rr8d6vGpFt7nKgOxGhrZHxhv6Udpoz7S6V-z3yeeDCHQxQpa83iEe27Xg2-Hy8GHzHZxq0c8qQ/w640-h422/397356-Hybrid+electric+Grand+Caravan-ea29ca-original-1626716858.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><b style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;">WICHITA, Kan. </b>— July 20, 2021 — <a href="https://txtav.com/en" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" target="_blank">Textron Aviation</a> today announced<b style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"> </b><a href="http://www.surfairmobility.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" target="_blank">Surf Air Mobility</a><u style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"> Inc.,</u> has signed a purchase agreement for up to 150 <a href="https://cessna.txtav.com/en/turboprop/grand-caravan-ex" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;" target="_blank">Cessna Grand Caravan EX</a> single-engine turboprop aircraft, with an initial fleet order of 100 aircraft and an option for 50 more. The order, which is subject to Surf Air Mobility obtaining financing, is part of an exclusive relationship between the two companies supporting Surf Air Mobility’s development of electrified Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft, beginning with a hybrid electric Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft powered by Surf Air Mobility’s proprietary powertrain technology. </p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 224px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="<b>WICHITA, Kan. </b>— July 20, 2021 — <a href="https://txtav.com/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Textron Aviation</a> today announced<b> </b><a href="http://www.surfairmobility.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Surf Air Mobility</a><u> Inc.,</u> has signed a purchase agreement for up to 150 <a href="https://cessna.txtav.com/en/turboprop/grand-caravan-ex" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cessna Grand Caravan EX</a> single-engine turboprop aircraft, with an initial fleet order of 100 aircraft and an option for 50 more. The order, which is subject to Surf Air Mobility obtaining financing, is part of an <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsurfairmobility.com%2Ftextron-aviation-press-release-sam&amp;data=04%7C01%7Ckflavin%40txtav.com%7Caba229a4c7864e580cc808d94af7ee13%7C2d5b202c8c074168a55166f570d429b3%7C0%7C0%7C637623250967806102%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=w4vnM2hxh%2B%2B8%2BNE4uEGWhYLlTCSPOgi9tBjez0pTtpY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">exclusive relationship</a> between the two companies supporting Surf Air Mobility’s development of electrified Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft, beginning with a hybrid electric Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft powered by Surf Air Mobility’s proprietary powertrain technology.&nbsp; &nbsp;" href="https://media.txtav.com/201086-textron-aviation-announces-order-for-up-to-150-cessna-grand-caravan-ex-aircraft-to-aid-surf-air-mobility-in-accelerating-electrified-c#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none !important; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: icomoon !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__empty-row viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p class="empty-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 30px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"></p></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">The Cessna Grand Caravan EX is designed and manufactured by Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company.</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 64px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="The&nbsp;Cessna Grand Caravan EX&nbsp;is&nbsp;designed and manufactured by&nbsp;Textron Aviation Inc.,&nbsp;a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company." href="https://media.txtav.com/201086-textron-aviation-announces-order-for-up-to-150-cessna-grand-caravan-ex-aircraft-to-aid-surf-air-mobility-in-accelerating-electrified-c#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none !important; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: icomoon !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"> </p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 32px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="&nbsp;" href="https://media.txtav.com/201086-textron-aviation-announces-order-for-up-to-150-cessna-grand-caravan-ex-aircraft-to-aid-surf-air-mobility-in-accelerating-electrified-c#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none !important; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: icomoon !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">Textron Aviation’s initial deliveries of the Cessna Grand Caravan EX aircraft to Surf Air Mobility, a company accelerating the adoption of electric regional air travel, are expected to begin in Q2 2022. <a rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--primary-brand-color); max-height: 1e+06px;" target="_blank">Surf Air anticipates that its </a>hybrid electric system for the Grand Caravan, upon certification, will power a 9-seat variant of the iconic single-engine turboprop.</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 128px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="Textron Aviation’s initial deliveries of the Cessna Grand Caravan EX aircraft to Surf Air Mobility, a company accelerating the adoption of electric regional air travel, are expected to begin in Q2 2022. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Surf Air anticipates that its </a>hybrid electric system for the Grand Caravan, upon certification, will power a 9-seat variant of the iconic single-engine turboprop. " href="https://media.txtav.com/201086-textron-aviation-announces-order-for-up-to-150-cessna-grand-caravan-ex-aircraft-to-aid-surf-air-mobility-in-accelerating-electrified-c#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none !important; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: icomoon !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__empty-row viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p class="empty-row" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: 30px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"></p></div><div class="article-block article-block__quote viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><blockquote class="c-quotes" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 12px 0px 46px 3px; max-height: 1e+06px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 32px; position: relative;"><q style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-height: 1e+06px; quotes: none;">Hybrid electric propulsion technology, deployed at scale for environmental and commercial benefits, is an important part of the future of travel. </q><cite style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-style: normal; max-height: 1e+06px; padding-left: 22px; position: relative;">Ron Draper, President & CEO, Textron Aviation</cite></blockquote><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 168px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action share-quote-on-twitter" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%22Hybrid+electric+propulsion+technology%2C+deployed+at+scale+for+environmental+and+commercial+benefits%2C+is+an+important+part+of+the+future+of+travel.%C2%A0%22+-+Ron+Draper%2C+President+%26amp%3B+CEO%2C+Textron+Aviation&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.txtav.com%2F201086-textron-aviation-announces-order-for-up-to-150-cessna-grand-caravan-ex-aircraft-to-aid-surf-air-mobility-in-accelerating-electrified-c" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none !important; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" target="_blank" title="Share this quote on Twitter"><span class="icon-twitter" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: icomoon !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Quote copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text=""Hybrid electric propulsion technology, deployed at scale for environmental and commercial benefits, is an important part of the future of travel. " - Ron Draper, President &amp; CEO, Textron Aviation" href="https://media.txtav.com/201086-textron-aviation-announces-order-for-up-to-150-cessna-grand-caravan-ex-aircraft-to-aid-surf-air-mobility-in-accelerating-electrified-c#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none !important; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: icomoon !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: relative; transform: translateY(0px); transition: transform 0.35s ease-in 0s, opacity 0.35s ease-in 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">“Hybrid electric propulsion technology, deployed at scale for environmental and commercial benefits, is an important part of the future of travel,” said Ron Draper, President & CEO, Textron Aviation. “This relationship with Surf Air Mobility leverages the unique performance capabilities of the Cessna Grand Caravan in both passenger and cargo operations and continues to demonstrate the aircraft’s adaptability for innovative missions and configurations.”</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 160px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="“Hybrid electric propulsion technology, deployed at scale for environmental and commercial benefits, is an important part of the future of travel,” said Ron Draper, President &amp; CEO, Textron Aviation. “This relationship with Surf Air Mobility leverages the unique performance capabilities of the Cessna Grand Caravan in both passenger and cargo operations and continues to demonstrate the aircraft’s adaptability for innovative missions and configurations.”" href="https://media.txtav.com/201086-textron-aviation-announces-order-for-up-to-150-cessna-grand-caravan-ex-aircraft-to-aid-surf-air-mobility-in-accelerating-electrified-c#" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-size: 24px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; text-decoration-line: none !important; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;" title="Copy article"><span class="icon-attach" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: icomoon !important; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; max-height: 1e+06px; speak: none;"></span></a></div></div><div class="article-block article-block__p viewport-section in-viewport" style="background-color: white; 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Through this exclusive relationship with Textron Aviation, we’re able to make electrified aircraft broadly available to existing and new operators, and bring the benefits of lower cost, lower emission air travel to customers faster and at scale,” said Sudhin Shahani, Co-founder, CEO & Executive Chairman, Surf Air Mobility. “We believe electrifying the Cessna Grand Caravan is the most significant step that can be made toward reduced emission flying with the quickest path to market.”</p><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; height: 224px; justify-content: center; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"><a class="c-sideline-action copy-quote-to-clipboard js--copy-to-clipboard" data-clipboard-success="Text copied to your clipboard." data-clipboard-text="“The Cessna Grand Caravan EX is one of the most adaptable and prolific aircraft in flight today. 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margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px;">For more Caravan News visit <a href="http://CaravanNation.com">CaravanNation.com</a></p></div></div><div class="c-sideline-actions" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: "Brown Light", sans-serif, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica; font-size: 17px; height: 234px; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.49px; max-height: 1e+06px; opacity: 1; position: absolute; right: -88px; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0.25s ease-in 0s; width: 88px;"></div>Caravan Nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406522239832376160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135649232515408883.post-52160036143772575162021-01-31T23:39:00.003-08:002022-12-16T10:56:31.489-08:00Operating Tips for an Icing Encounter in the Cessna Caravan<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Operating Tips for an Icing Encounter in the Cessna Caravan </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09slfGh7bgBIUymufKUQSkvQD2ehGWTgVHWlpmGE_k51IbHDZI3wayxX_LE5op5SaPnqA_maH6vsMaEAj-BPhqE6T9XBcaj5Up4y2NVv9JpMlS3OjsHwLV5rnBVM5ys7qx366VjFOdm4/s512/caravanice.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="512" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09slfGh7bgBIUymufKUQSkvQD2ehGWTgVHWlpmGE_k51IbHDZI3wayxX_LE5op5SaPnqA_maH6vsMaEAj-BPhqE6T9XBcaj5Up4y2NVv9JpMlS3OjsHwLV5rnBVM5ys7qx366VjFOdm4/w640-h414/caravanice.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">I</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">n the Northern Hemisphere Winter is right around the corner, and with it comes increased chances that the Caravan that you fly will have an icing encounter. Are you familiar with the various steps that you can take to help manage the impact of an icing encounter? Whether you own, fly or manage a Cessna Caravan, we here at </span><b style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://Caravannation.com" target="_blank">Caravan Nation</a></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> recommend that you, not only read this article, but print and save the below listed operating tips for future reference.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The operating tips listed below are part of the FedEx Caravan Icing Program. A program that you should acknowledge and possibly incorporate it into your own program. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the Caravan, like every other airplane, you can help manage the impact of an icing encounter by remembering two general rules: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A)</b> Keep the airspeed/power up and, </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>B)</b> Keep the deck angle/AOA down. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Additionally we recommend that you consider the following:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Make sure that you receive a thorough weather briefing. Know the right questions to ask, and don't hesitate to ask them.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Compare frontal movement with the proposed flight path, remember to look well up-wind of your course line to see what kind of weather is approaching your flight path.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Pre-flight ALL of the aircraft anti/de-ice systems for proper operation and cycle sequences.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Periodically wax areas of the aircraft that are exposed to ice accumulation: e.g.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Nose wheel fairings & accessories (not the shock)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Engine cowling</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Cargo pod</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Wing-strut/wing-joint area including tie-down hook</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Main landing gear dressing including brake-pad housing, but not the brake-disk</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Gurney-strip of the trailing edge of the flaps</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Left & right outer elevator horn</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Exercise self-discipline and try to envision ALL possible "What if (s)" that might be encountered during the initial take-off and climb in icing conditions.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6. Use of flaps for take-off should be carefully evaluated when icing is anticipated during departure.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">7. Remember... snow, slush, or water standing on the runway will greatly increase the required take-off distance, as well as landing roll. Be particularly careful when a take-off is being conducted. Slow acceleration to liftoff speed followed by an ABORT will require considerably more runway. Therefore, where a choice can be made, pick the longest runway for both take-off and landing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">8. After take-off, increase speed to 110-115 kts as quickly as possible. This will help keep ice formation on the protected areas of the aircraft. Continue to climb with a minimum deck-angle.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">9. At airports where SIDs are used, pick a direction of departure which has the lowest climb-gradient. Once you are at a safe altitude you can then proceed to your destination.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">10. Constantly monitor & assess the icing situation of your aircraft. Be particularly alert to OAT changes during the climb. Observing the OAT during your climb to altitude can provide clues which could save your life.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">11. Consider not using the auto-pilot when operating in ice. This is not to imply that the auto-pilot is not approved for ice operation, but that a pilot can not possibly know how the aircraft is FEELING if the auto-pilot is engaged.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">12. When encountering icing and the airspeed begins to drop below 130 KIAS, MAXIMUM CONTINUOUS POWER e.g. 1865# torque/805 C ITT (675 HP) as applicable, should be used.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">13. De-ice boots are more effective at higher airspeeds. At lower speeds effectiveness may be improved by SMOOTHLY changing the pitch attitude as the boots are being MANUALLY inflated which will allow the changing relative wind to assist in removing the ice from the wing leading edge.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">14. A vibration may occur as ice starts to build on the propeller hub and the back side of the blade near the hub. Under extreme conditions the vibration may continue to increase the the point where the instrument panel begins to shake. In conditions of MODERATE and above accumulation rates, the automatic propeller anti-ice system may not be sufficient to keep the propeller clear of ice. Under these conditions, consider using the MANUAL propeller anti-ice feature and briskly cycling the prop between the maximum and minimum RPM (minimum 200 RPM change) to assist in removing the ice.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">15. Don't keep flying into deteriorating conditions. Have a plan, e.g. climb, descend or turn to get to less severe conditions if it become necessary. KEEP YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS AHEAD OF THE AIRPLANE. DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF TO RUN OUT OF OPTIONS!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">16. Communicate your situation with ATC. Keep them advised of your icing problems. Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. Failing to use all of the resources at your disposal is sellling yourself short. DON'T LET A MACHO ATTITUDE OVERLOAD YOUR BOAT!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">17. Monitor the terminal approach frequency while you are still in the enroute portion. This will allow you to listen-in on any problems other pilots may be encountering while in their attempt to land. During the approach keep your air-speed at least 15-20 knots higher than normal. Stall speed increases with ice accumulation.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">18. Do not cycle the boots during landing since boot inflation may increase stall speeds by as much as 10 knots.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">19. Fly the aircraft down-to-the-ground, do not attempt a normal flare-out to a stalled landing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have any questions about this article, use the contact form on <b><a href="http://CaravanNation.com" target="_blank">CaravanNation.com</a> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Always remember to... <i>"Never stop learning. Review often and never get complacent so that you can continue to fly safely!"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="goog_659462813"><br /></a></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://AirNationGroup.com"><span style="font-size: x-small;">AirNationGroup.com</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div> <p></p>Caravan Nationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00406522239832376160noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8135649232515408883.post-7349158938808544012020-07-03T11:43:00.001-07:002020-07-03T11:43:58.466-07:00Another AC-208 Eliminator on the Assembly Line<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to our sources there is currently another Grand Caravan EX that is being converted by Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. (El Sugundo, California) to an AC-208 "Eliminator" Armed Caravan. The AC-208 is 1 of 8 aircraft that are in Northrup Grumman's Special Mission portfolio of aircraft. The other aircraft in that line-up are the Alenia C-27J, CASA CN-235/295, Lockheed C-130, Bombardier Dash-8, Beechcraft King Air, Sikorsky H-60 Blackhawk and the AgustaWestland AW139.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to Northrup Grumman, "The AC-208 Eliminator builds on Northrup Grumman's battle-proven AC-208 Armed Caravan and offers customers a highly-capable and cost-effective reconnaissance and ground attack capability with a critical offensive and operational over-watch capability in the Counter-Insurgency (COIN) fight. The Eliminator is able to find, fix, identify, track, target and engage emerging and time-sensitive targets with its 2.75" guided rockets and/or AGM-114 HELLFIRE missile payload, based on mission requirements."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These unique Caravans have or will be delivered to countries in the Middle East and Africa including these countries: Iraq, Lebanon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><br /></u></span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><br /></u></span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>All Hail the Pratt & Whitney PT6!</u></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Below you will see one of the first photos of the famous Pratt & Whitney PT6 turboprop aircraft engine and its designers. This engine is THE rockstar of the turboprop engine world! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Important Dates</u>:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">1958 - Design started</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1960 Feb. - First ran</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1961 May - First flew</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">1964 - Entered service</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">2011 - 50th Anniversary </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On its first flight it was mounted as a third engine on the nose of a Beech 18. That would have been an interesting sight! The test aircraft was switched to a Beech King Air in 1980. The first production model was the PT6A-6 and used on the Beech Queen Air.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">The original designers of the PT6</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">According to the manufacturer over 51,000 units have been produced (as of 2015) and the engine has flown over 400 million hours! Considering that it only has an in-flight engine shut-down once every 651,126 hours, it is one of the most reliable aircraft engines ever. There have been over 69 different versions built. Not all of the versions have been for aircraft, some variants have been used for helicopters, boats, hovercraft, land vehicles and auxiliary power units.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">TBO (time between overhauls) ranges between 3600 to 9000 hours and hot section inspections are done between 1800 and 2000 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The PT6-114A in the Cessna Caravan only weighs 350lbs and yet puts out almost 700hp! The PT6 engine is found in most of the turbo-prop airplanes in the United States, including the Cessna Caravan, de Havilland Twin Otter, Air Tractor, Beech 1900, Beech King Air, Beech 99, PAC 750, Quest Kodiak, Pilatus PC-12, Piaggio Avanti, Shorts 360, AgustaWestland AW139 and many more. ALL great aircraft mainly because of their heart.... the PT6. Keep up the great work Pratt & Whitney!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Be sure and check out our friends at <a href="http://pt6nation.com/" target="_blank">pt6nation.com</a></span><br />
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A startup company in Southern California which hopes to revolutionize the daily commute will launch service in the coming days and plans to offer full air-based commuting schedules from up to 40 regional airports beginning in January.</div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box; text-size-adjust: 100%;" />FLOAT – which stands for “Fly Over All Traffic” – will offer air taxi services to what it calls “supercommuters” in the region. The company plans to operate a fleet of nine Cessna Caravans to what it calls “underused” regional and general aviation airports across the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, renowned for their ground-based traffic problems.</div>
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FLOAT Cessna Caravan over Los Angeles</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.125rem;">The company says it has agreements with almost 40 airports, including Hollywood Burbank Airport, John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana and Palm Springs Airport. It is partnering with Pompano Beach, Florida-based operator Southern Airways Express for its planes and crews.</span></div>
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FLOAT executives say its target customer is a commuter who drives 50 miles or more in each direction, which, depending on the time of day and the traffic flow, can take more than two hours on the region’s congested highways.</div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box; text-size-adjust: 100%;" />“FLOAT is shattering the myth that sitting in hours of traffic every day is a necessary and unavoidable way of life in Southern California,” FLOAT co-founder and chief executive Arnel Guiang says. “We live in a rapidly-evolving society of intense time management and instant gratification, and business professionals and their superiors are quickly realizing that spending hours in traffic is cutting into their productivity and work/life balance.”</div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box; text-size-adjust: 100%;" />The company says pricing and routes will vary, but it estimates the cost of a one-way flight could be as low as $30. It is offering monthly subscription packages on selected routes for $1,250, which encompasses roundtrip service five days a week.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here in the Northern Hemisphere ground temperatures have dropped below freezing over much of the population. So we thought that now would be a good time for us Caravan Pilots to review Emergency Procedures in the icing environment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Please remember that these Emergency Procedures found below are for the Cessna Model 208B (675 SHP) and no others. If you are flying a different model Caravan, please review your aircraft's FAA approved Abbreviated Checklist or Airplane Flight Manual for that specific model.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As stated in the Pilots' Abbreviated Checklist published by Cessna: <i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Procedures for Exiting the Severe Icing Environment (As required by <a href="http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAD.nsf/AOCADSearch/5067E0660679659786256A4E006F294C?OpenDocument" target="_blank">AD 96-09-15</a>)</b> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Immediately request priority handling from Air Traffic Control to facilitate a route or an altitude change to exit the severe icing conditions in order to avoid extended exposure to flight conditions more severe than those for which the airplane has been certificated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you are a Caravan pilot, I highly recommend that you complete some of Cessna's E-Learning courses on this topic. Courses such as "Caravan Cold Weather Ops" and "Caravan Vodcast Ground Icing Conditions". There are many other interesting courses available, most of which are free and are all available at </span><a href="http://cessnaelearning.com/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">cessnaelearning.com</a><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Fellow Caravan Pilots, please</span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">remember to</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>R</b><i style="font-weight: bold;">eview Often </i><i>and</i><b> F</b><i style="font-weight: bold;">ly Safe</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>so that you can continue to</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><i>Love What You Do</i></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Charter operator and freight hauler South Aero was the customer for the 500th Cessna Grand Caravan EX. (Photo: Textron Aviation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">he Cessna Grand Caravan EX utility turboprop single entered service more than six years ago, and Textron Aviation has delivered its 500th copy, the company announced yesterday. Certified in 2013, it is the third variant of the successful Caravan line first introduced in 1986, but with a more powerful Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 engine that improved its rate of climb by 38 percent over its predecessor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Accepting the milestone Grand Caravan EX was Albuquerque, New Mexico-based South Aero, a charter and freight hauler that operates five Cessna Caravans and nearly 11 flights a day. “The dependability and load-carrying capability of the Grand Caravan EX allows our fleet to operate for thousands of hours across the continental US,” South Aero owner and CEO Wayne South said. “This is an outstanding aircraft for our operations and a platform that our pilots love to fly.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The $2.68 million airplane—which includes the optional under-belly cargo pod—can seat up to 14 passengers with a useful load of 3,692 pounds (1,675 kg) and a maximum range of 912 nm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Congratulations to Fly Safarilink on their new 2019 Grand Caravan EX!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">After a week long journey from the U.S., the aircraft was met by Yash Desai of Africair Inc. (pictured left), Anu Vohra - Safarilink Marketing Director (pictured center), and Alex Avedi - Safarilink CEO (pictured right), upon arrival at Wilson Airport in Nairobi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As Kenya's premier safari airline, Safarilink provides daily scheduled services to 22 destinations in and around Kenya. The Cessna 208B meets the specific requirements of operating into bush airstrips within Kenya's world famous game parks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We are proud to add another 208B to Fly Safarilink's growing fleet. Thank you for your continued business and trust in Africair Inc., it is a pleasure to serve you. For more information about Safarilink please visit their website at: <a href="https://www.flysafarilink.com/en">https://www.flysafarilink.com/en</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now and then our readers will share with us interesting facts that we did not know about the Cessna Caravan or facts that we do not believe that our average reader would know. This inspired the creation of the list found below. We hope that you enjoy and share with us any other not-so-commonly known facts that you know about the Caravan!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Accidentally hitting the Start switch will illuminate the "Generator Off" light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">2. The most common turbo-prop airplane used for skydiving in the world is the Caravan. (For more information about flying skydivers, check out our affiliate site <a href="http://skydiverdriver.com/" target="_blank">SkydiverDriver.com</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Information compiled for this article is from the archives of <a href="http://caravannation.com/">CaravanNation.com</a> and from the book <i>Caravan: Cessna's Swiss Army Knife with Wings</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starting June 17, Mokulele Airlines will fly twice daily between Maui and Lanai from $57 each way. That, following the acquisition of Mokulele by Memphis based Southern Airways Express a few months ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And the company is looking to expand the Mokulele brand here in Hawaii with more Hawaii inter-island routes later this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"When we purchased Mokulele just over 2 and a half months ago, we made a promise to the people of Hawaii that we would bring more aircraft, newer aircraft, more departures and more destinations than this airline has ever served." -- Mokulele Airlines (<a href="https://iflysouthern.com/" target="_blank">Southern Airways Express</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mokulele plans to test a new hybrid aircraft model on their Kahului to Hana Maui route starting this fall. That as a result of a partnership between Mokulele and Ampaire. Ampaire spokesman said, "with a short flight, it shows off the technology and its benefits. Hawaii's focus on sustainability also makes it more aligned with our own vision." He added that potential fuel savings of 50-70% are possible with 25-50% maintenance cost reduction. The company's site says "Ampaire is on a mission to provide the world with all-electric powered commercial flights that are affordable, quiet and environmentally conscious."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">s pilots we are trained to exit icing conditions when they present themselves, and as pilots we know that icing conditions are ever-changing. Sometimes the conditions can be exactly right for ice, and you get nothing. Sometimes the opposite. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The de-ice boots on the Caravan provide some protection for removing ice, but just because an aircraft is approved for flight into icing conditions doesn't mean that you should remain in that environment and continue to accumulate more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ice alters the airfoil surface, making us test pilots for a new type of wing shape - therefore the boots are really a tool for exiting an icing situation. The nice part about the Northwest is that the conditions usually change within a few minutes and the situation resolves itself and the short hops between Seattle and the islands sure help too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Be sure to treat every icing scenario as it's own independent event and to know your indicators and actions: loss of airspeed, autopilot checks etc. Most importantly, have fun and fly safe out there!</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A</span> <span style="font-size: large;">US/Australian company has successfully tested a new 350hp electric motor on an ‘Ironbird’ ground test rig.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">MagniX is now planning to scale up the power unit to 750hp for use on a Cessna Caravan, replacing the standard Pratt & Whitney PT6 turboprop engine. MagniX is going for an all-electric platform, saying that its 50kg motor produces 5 kilowatts of power per kilogram of weight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">MagniX was founded nine years ago in Australia and recently moved its headquarters to Redmond, Washington, US. New CEO Roei Ganzarski said MagniX’s motor should cost roughly the same as the Pratt & Whitney PT6, while improving operating costs by 40% to 60% – electricity being cheaper than the Jet A1 fuel that the PT6 burns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ganzarski says MagniX’s motor will allow loaded Caravan to fly up to 105 miles, using existing lithium-ion battery technology. That range could increase to 250 miles within a few years as battery technology improves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Chezka loves flying and is definitely an inspiration to many female pilots around the world. Read her answers to our questions below.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: medium;"><b>Name: </b>Chezka<br /><b>Age: </b>24<br /><b>From: </b>Manila, Philippines</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: medium;"><b>Total Time:</b> 850</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: medium;"><b>Company:</b> Air Juan Aviation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: medium;"><b>Location:</b> Cebu, Philippines</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: medium;"><b>Years flying Caravans:</b> 1+</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: medium;"><b>What do you like most about flying the Caravan?</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find the Caravan really aviator-friendly. It'll surely be on the list of your favorites once you get the hang of it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AirJuan, for one is an astounding company which caters local flights that provide adventure feels and personalized service. A real fit for an archipelago like the Philippines. Some of our routes are short but sincerely scenic. Truly, flying with AirJuan is a journey itself!! We even fly you to remote destinations which would satisfy your wanderlust!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What are your career goals?</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Right now I'm just really enjoying to fly inter island trips and I really appreciate taking things one step at a time just as how I do not neglect use of checklists in the aircraft lol! Let the wind take its flow and my career would course through it, I suppose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the aspiring pilots out there, strike whilst the iron is hot! Let your passion roar like the engines of an airplane. Turn your energy into productivity and the reward would be all worth it. I'm telling you, it only gets better and the learning process is fun so do not falter, keep your head up and keep inspired!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In an Indonesian province where swampland sits just 200 feet above sea level with numerous rivers running through it, a 30-year-old, 20,000-plus-hour Cessna Caravan on Wipline 8000 floats has faithfully delivered supplies; transported medical, ministry, and government staff; and served other critical needs. </span></div>
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A brand-new Caravan on amphibious Wipline 8750 floats will soon head to Papua to replace it. Donors helped purchase the airplane and floats—the 100th set of Wipline 8750s produced—displayed in MAF livery at the Wipaire booth during EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, July 23 through 29.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 17px;">Wipaire Vice President of Marketing and Sales Clint Clouatre said the floats would be used "to save lives, not just supply a lifestyle."</span><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 1.6875rem; padding: 0px;">
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MAF said the Wipline 8000 floats on the old Caravan had "been a great tool." The new Wipline 8750 amphibs will allow the aircraft to carry 400 additional pounds without increasing the fuel burn or operating expense.</div>
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"We do what we do because we want to help people spiritually and physically," said MAF president David Holsten, who served in Indonesia with his family for 18 years and just took the helm of the Nampa, Idaho-based organization in June.</div>
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A professional ferry crew will deliver the aircraft to Papua. "It's a little like Christmas when it shows up," MAF Vice President of Ministry Advancement Barb Bowman said. "You can imagine."</div>
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