Sustainability and Environment
Canada’s NRC Makes Milestone Biofuel Flight
 The National Research Council of Canada recently flew a Falcon 20 powered exclusively by unblended biofuel. A T-33 followed the aircraft, collecting data about the biofuel’s emissions.
The National Research Council of Canada recently flew a Falcon 20 powered exclusively by unblended biofuel. A T-33 followed the aircraft, collecting data about the biofuel’s emissions.

Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) achieved a milestone in the quest for adoption of biofuels when it made the first flight by a civil jet powered by 100-percent unblended biofuel. At the end of October, the NRC’s Dassault Falcon 20 made the historic flight over Ottawa, burning a new biofuel known as ReadiJet, derived from Brassica carinata, an inedible oilseed crop provided by feedstock producer Agrisoma Biosciences.

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