Aircraft
New Business Aircraft
As the business aviation industry awakens from its three-year slumber, start-up and established manufacturers hope that their aircraft now in the works, as

As the business aviation industry awakens from its three-year slumber, start-up and established manufacturers hope that their aircraft now in the works, as well as those that recently received certification, will take sales revenue to new heights. While this list of new aircraft includes many derivatives, more than half of the proposed aircraft are actually clean-sheet designs. In fact, Cessna’s Citation Mustang will be the Wichita manufacturer’s first clean-sheet design since it launched the Citation III in 1978.

But the downside is that clean-sheet designs frequently consume more money and time than originally estimated. This is evident in the many delays in schedules at established and would-be manufacturers, and in the funding problems at some start-ups, notably Safire Aircraft.