Maintenance and Modifications
Aviation Partners Gets ANAC Falcon 50 Winglet Approval
Brazil’s civil aviation authority validates the aftermarket manufacturer’s latest supplemental type certificate for Dassault aircraft.

Aviation Partners, Inc. (API) will this week start installing the first set of its high-Mach blended winglets on a Brazilian-registered Dassault Falcon 50. An existing U.S. FAA supplemental type certificate has been approved by Brazil’s ANAC agency. The U.S. company received FAA approval for the modification earlier this year.

The new-design winglets are optimized for higher cruise speeds than the Seattle-based manufacturer’s previous blended winglet design and provide drag reduction along with a corresponding range increase of 5 percent at Mach .80. When optimum long-range speeds are selected, that benefit can increase to more than 7 percent.

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