Aircraft
Socata mulls 2009 launch of twin-engine business aircraft
EADS Socata here on Monday outlined what its next product launch could be next year–a twin-engine business aircraft, bigger than the TBM 850 single turbopr

EADS Socata here on Monday outlined what its next product launch could be next year–a twin-engine business aircraft, bigger than the TBM 850 single turboprop. Some criteria, such as finding enough funding for development, still have to be met. French-based Daher taking a stake in Socata may help.

“The future product will have two more seats than the [six-seat] TBM,” CEO Jean-Michel Léonard said. The airframe’s design would reap fruits from the ongoing Fuscomp demonstration program, which is targeted at an all-composite fuselage, using liquid-resin infusion. A launch decision is expected early in 2009.

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