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Ruag Shows Off NextGen Dornier Do228NG

Ruag Aerospace Services presents an example of something sort of old and something quite new, the Dornier DO 228NG multi-mission turboprop.

The aircraft can be configured in a variety of ways, as a 19-seat passenger transport or corporate shuttle, a medium-range cargo transport, high-endurance sensor platform, medevac, maritime surveillance or border patrol aircraft.

By Harry Weisberger • Contributor

October 10, 2011

Ruag Aerospace Services is here at NBAA ‘11, exhibiting on the Henderson Executive Airport static display line with an example of something sort of old and something quite new, the “New Generation” Dornier DO 228NG multi-mission turboprop twin.

Last year the aviation division of Swiss holding company Ruag began delivering new examples of the model first manufactured in 1981. Originally built as a regional airliner, its latest iteration is being marketed for several special missions with an all-glass cockpit, 715-shp flat-rated Honeywell TPE331-10 engines and five-blade propellers. First delivery of the newly built 228NG was in September 2010 to a Japanese operator.

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