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14-07-2008, 15:59
Eclipse Aviation has strongly defended the safety and reliability of its Eclipse 500 very light jet (VLJ) as EASA steps down tension and suggests it could give certification later this year, even if it is several months past the original 2007 target date. "We certainly hope to certify the aircraft, we have been saying, by the third quarter of this year, maybe end of the third quarter," says European Aviation Safety Agency Certification Manager for General Aviation Roger Hardy, "You might have differences of interpretation, and that is what the specialists on both sides are spending a lot of time discussing and trying to resolve." Several hundred European customers have placed orders for the 500 and others have orders that depend on that certification. A second configuration for Europe absolutely will not happen, says president and CEO Vern Raburn. “There’s been a lot of blabbing out of EASA,” Rabu
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