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Eclipse’s plan for Russia moves toward production
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Eclipse Aviation (Booth No. 7463) has received permission from the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to export the Eclipse 500 very light jet and its components to Russia, and has also received Canadian approval for the export of the aircraft’s Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F engines. “This significant milestone is the next step in establishing an assembly facility in Ulyanovsk, Russia,” said the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based company.

Eclipse founder and CEO Vern Raburn said, “We will see lots of progress in Ulyanovsk this year and we are still on for late in the fourth quarter of 2009 to deliver the first aircraft” from this facility.

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