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Gulfstream makes progress toward first flight of G150
The Gulfstream G150, which the Savannah, Ga.-based company describes as the first wide-cabin, long-range, midsize business jet, rolled out January 18 in el

The Gulfstream G150, which the Savannah, Ga.-based company describes as the first wide-cabin, long-range, midsize business jet, rolled out January 18 in el Aviv before hundreds of employees of Israel Aircraft Industries, which is producing the G150 at its plant on Ben Gurion International Airport.

The G150 is a larger-cabin version of the G100, which will go out of production with S/N 158. Before Gulfstream’s parent company, General Dynamics, purchased Galaxy Aerospace in 2001, the G100 was known as the Astra SPX. But its lineage traces back to the early 1960s Jet Commander, which IAI acquired in 1967.