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Grob SPn flight tests resume

Grob Aerospace has restarted the flight-test program for its SPn jet, just under three months after the November 29 crash of its second prototype.

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

March 28, 2007

Grob Aerospace has restarted the flight-test program for its SPn jet, just under three months after the November 29 crash of its second prototype. The first SPn prototype took to the air again on February 23 from the company’s headquarters at Tussenhausen-Mattsies in southern Germany.

The program team has now completed more than 300 flight-test hours, with the
first prototype having logged most of these. The second prototype had flown just over 32 hours at the time of the accident.

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