Aircraft
Certification-chasing PC-24 Does EBACE Touch and Go
Pilatus jet is on track for certification at the end of next year.
The Pilatus PC-24 made a one-day appearance today in Geneva at EBACE. Pilatus's first jet prototype took a 24-hour break from an intensive flight test program to assume a starring role on the static display at the show. (Photo: Mark Wagner)
The Pilatus PC-24 made a one-day appearance today in Geneva at EBACE. Pilatus's first jet prototype took a 24-hour break from an intensive flight test program to assume a starring role on the static display at the show. (Photo: Mark Wagner)

The Pilatus PC-24 made its full public debut at this week’s EBACE show when the Swiss manufacturer’s first prototype took a 24-hour break from an intensive flight test program to take a starring role on the static display. With just over 500 flight hours logged by two prototypes, and with a third due to join the campaign towards the end of 2016, the highly versatile mid-light twinjet is not quite a quarter of the way towards completing type certification, scheduled for around the end of 2017.