AvCraft CEO Ben Bartel in late January announced the restart of Dornier 328JET production at the company’s plant in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, just outside Munich. Headquartered at Leesburg, Va., AvCraft one year ago acquired production rights for the 328/328JET and its corporate version, the Envoy 3, as well as for the stretched 428JET that might be developed later.
The production restart is fueled by the sale of all of the 18 new “white tail” 328s that AvCraft acquired when it bought the division from bankrupt Fairchild Dornier. In addition, AvCraft sold eight repossessed second-hand 328JETs and four 328 turboprops taken over from the insolvency administrator. AvCraft’s sales force has so far secured orders and options for forty-five 328JETs, almost half of which will be the Envoy 3 corporate version. Seven white tails were delivered last year, all in airline configuration, and another six–one airliner and five Envoy 3s–were handed over to customers before last month.
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