Aircraft
Eclipse Begins Production of Model 550 VLJ
The Eclipse production team mated the forward keel assembly to the fuselage for the first Eclipse 550 during a dealer and sales conference at the company’s Albuquerque, N.M. headquarters on May 31. The airplane will be delivered next year.
The Eclipse production team mated the forward keel assembly to the fuselage for the first Eclipse 550 during a dealer and sales conference at the company’s Albuquerque, N.M. headquarters on May 31. The airplane will be delivered next year.

Sales professionals from more than 30 countries who attended the first International Eclipse Dealer and Sales Conference on May 31 may have noticed a not-so-subtle change to the buildings that house Eclipse Aerospace at the Albuquerque, N.M. International Sunport. Before the meeting, Eclipse CEO Mason Holland arranged for bucket loads of blue paint to be delivered to the company’s facilities, and painters quickly erased the bright orange that had been the hallmark of the old Eclipse Aviation and dabbed on the blue that is the color of Eclipse Aerospace. The rest of the company had already been converted, including employee shirts, podiums, brochures and anything else that smacked of the orange from the first iteration of Eclipse.

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