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After Slow Start, Gulfstream Expects To Meet 2023 Delivery Goals

Gulfstream delivered three fewer aircraft than anticipated in the first quarter of the year, for reasons that were out of its control.

Gulfstream G280 — Gulfstream's first quarter 2023 delivery totals were lowered after two G280s were sidelined by late engine delvieries from their manufacturer. (Photo: Gulfstream)

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

April 26, 2023

Gulfstream delivered 21 business jets in the first quarter, three shy of its projections and four fewer than it delivered in the same period a year ago, according to parent company General Dynamics in its first-quarter earnings call this morning.

Through the first three months of the year, the Savannah, Georgia-based OEM handed over four super-midsize G280s and 17 large-cabin aircraft. While bureaucratic registration delays in a customer’s home country impacted the delivery of one large-cabin twinjet, General Dynamics chair and CEO Phebe Novakovic noted that this past quarter was the first in which the company missed an airplane delivery due to supply-chain issues when a pair of G280s was delayed due to late engine arrivals.

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