Gulfstream Aerospace is now expecting certification of the G700 near the end of this year, president Mark Burns said at an EBACE 2023 media briefing on Monday that covered the U.S. airframer’s in-development programs, which also include the follow-on G800 and the G400. The company (Booth S120) more recently expected the G700, introduced at NBAA-BACE in 2019, to get FAA approval in the third quarter, but Burns said pandemic-related issues, including staffing shortages at the regulatory agency, are causing the process to take “much longer than anticipated.”
Nonetheless, the G700 recently completed several certification test points during field performance and flying qualities trials. Meanwhile, the G700 has amassed more than 25 city-pair speed records on a world tour of two outfitted production aircraft last year and continuing customer visits worldwide. That includes one just set on the flight to EBACE, arriving in Geneva from Mumbai, India, in 8 hours 34 minutes at an average speed of Mach 0.90.
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