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Epic Anticipates E1000 Certification in Q1 2017

A redesign of several wing parts prompted the delay.

Epic CEO Doug King updated the status of the E1000 program yesterday (Tuesday) at AirVenture. King said a minor wing redesign will likely delay certification until the spring of 2017 for the new $2.95 million turboprop single, after which the company plans an initial production rate of one per month that will gradually increase. (Photo: Mark Huber)

By Mark Huber • Contributor

July 27, 2016

Anticipated FAA certification of the $2.95 million Epic E1000 turboprop single has slipped six months, to the first quarter of 2017, due to the need to redesign "about four parts" in the wing, CEO Doug King told AIN on Tuesday at EAA AirVenture 2016. King said the delay was "unfortunate," but "one of things we weren't going to do was compromise the performance of the airplane. Some of the engineers said that if we just lower the gross weight or drop the speed down we could lower some of these loads." But King said he resisted all suggestions to compromise the aircraft's performance and insisted on an engineering solution even when it meant a further program delay.

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