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Sluggish Economy Stalls New Turboprops G-21 Super Goose by Mark Huber new (AND BORN-AGAIN) R E B R turboprops U H T T T Comp Air CA-12 A M Sluggish economy stalls new turboprops G-21 Super Goose by Mark Huber he sluggish economy has stalled investment into new turboprop development, but updates of established models from legacy manufacturers are still coming to market pretty much on t schedule. While overall sales of new turboprops are down, the decrease is nowhere near the 37-percent decline in new business jet sales. New sales of established turboprop models are down slightly for everyone year over year through the second quarter. Collectively, new turboprop shipments were down 13.6 percent, according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. Several companies that last year claimed to have funds in hand to finish their development programs for all-new aircraft encountered financing difficulties this year. Epic LT the aircraft for Farnborough collapsed and ize and it would be moved in at Melbourne recently has Germany’s Dornier family Hints of trouble began to emerge at Farnborough filed for bankruptcy in Sep- by year-end. A new date for first flight of a made a serious attempt at building an order Bend, Ore.-based Epic more than a year tember last year after failing to attract suffi- conforming prototype–previously scheduled book and planning for production. So far ago when a deal for a $200 million infusion cient investment capital. A new ownership for July of this year–has not been set. the company has letters of intent (LOI) for from an Indian billionaire collapsed, the group took over the company this year and A preliminary nonconforming proto- more than 25 of the $6 million, 180-knot, company skipped EAA AirVenture and plans to continue development, but details type of the Model 12 first flew in 2007. push-pull twin turboprops. These LOIs are then issued a press release entitled “Busi- are sketchy as to when the aircraft could be The production model is to undergo signif- now being converted into firm contracts. ness is Booming.” The release raised more certified. The new company’s business icant changes, including a 42-inch fuselage The Dorniers formed the Florida-based questions than answers and had a whistling- director, Adrian Norris, acknowledged at stretch. The four-inches-larger fuselage Dornier Seaplane Co. and installed U.S. past-the-graveyard ring to it. Epic was EBACE that the company will need to form diameter would provide a six-foot-tall business jet industry veteran Joe Walker developing no fewer than three new single- a partnership with another manufacturer to stand-up cabin. Plans are to offer three to run it. Walker sees a potential market engine turboprops and last year promised a bring the aircraft to market. He estimated basic cabin layouts aft of the cockpit: a for as many as 300 to 500 aircraft over master plan for “the next ten years of turbo- that certification would take a minimum of luxury executive configuration with six the next decade and says the company props,” including twins. three years after the partnership was formed. seats; a double-club layout with eight seats; is close to making a decision on a pro- By July this year most of the company’s and a high-density design with 10 forward- duction site, which will be either in St. employees had been laid off. By August a Comp Air CA-12 facing seats. Jean-sur Richelieu, Quebec, or North Bay, court-appointed receiver was sorting Last year Comp Air Aviation president The cruciform tail on the prototype is Ontario. Walker said the flying boat’s through the company’s books and prepar- Ron Lueck announced that the company to be dropped in favor of a conventional cabin is 50 percent larger than that of ing it for bankruptcy. The only aircraft Epic had raised the $150 million required to design. The main door may also be a Cessna Caravan 675. Power for the ever delivered was the kit-built LT single- develop and certify the CA-12 single-engine enlarged, but not on the order of the mas- 10,000-pound Seastar comes from a pair engine turboprop. Through the summer, turboprop and to move to a dedicated facil- sive cargo door on the Pilatus PC-12. of 650-shp P&WC PT6A-135s. Interiors approximately 35 had been completed and ity in Melbourne, Fla., by Jan. 1, 2009. Power will come from a 1,650-shp Hon- for the unpressurized cabin range from an another 12 were stranded on the production The money and the move did not hap- eywell TPE331-14GR with a TBO of opulent six-seat executive layout to a line. Plans to build a certified version of pen, but in July, Comp Air said work on the 9,000 hours. 12-seat high-density configuration. the LT–called the Dynasty–in Canada $2.95 million CA-12 was continuing and it never materialized. announced a supplier agreement with Hon- Dornier Seastar G-21 Super Goose Epic did build the prototype of the Farn- eywell to equip the aircraft with the Primus The Dornier Seastar all-composite am- Two remakes of classic Grumman de- borough Aircraft Kestrel, essentially an 80- Apex avionics suite. The company predicted phibian was designed in the 1980s and was signs–the Goose and the Albatross–are in percent-scale version of the LT. That aircraft CA-12 certification by 2012 and expressed FAA certified under Part 23 in the early various stages of development and await- first flew in 2006. Plans for Epic to produce confidence that the funding would material- 1990s at a cost of almost $150 million. Only ing additional funding. Dornier Seastar R R E E B B R R U U H H T T T T T T A Epic LT A M M 42aaAviation International News • November 2009 • www.ainonline.com Antilles Seaplanes of Gibsonville, N.C., Collins Pro Line 21 avionics. The company fluid dynamics and a virtual wind tunnel in on the prototype was scheduled to begin acquired the type certificate for the Grum- has yet to select an engine provider and is cooperation with the University of Arizona, anew in August. Coincidentally, that also man G-21G Goose from McKinnon and still in preliminary design stages. It is eval- Tucson. “We’re making slow, quiet pro- was the month in which FFAC floated a last year began accepting deposits for an uating the 1,650-shp Honeywell TPE331- gress,” he said. $15 million private placement offering to updated version to be produced on that TC, 14GR/HR (9,000-hour TBO). provide financing for prototype aircraft the G-21 Super Goose. The new Goose is Company president Charles Simpson Socata-Daher NTx construction and operating capital. slated to have glass-panel avionics, seating said design targets include a top speed of Last year EADS sold Socata, maker of FFAC acquired the program in 2007 for four to nine passengers, and two PW&C 250 knots, a ceiling of 25,000 feet, 1,000- the TBM-series single-engine turboprop, to from Utilicraft Aerospace Industries in PT6A-34 turboprop engines (680 shp nm range and 6,000 pounds of payload. The Daher. For several years Socata has been exchange for FFAC stock. each). The original Goose was commis- interior can be configured for up to 24 pas- working on a follow-on aircraft to the TBM, sioned from Grumman by a group of New senger seats in high-density layout with a flat possibly a 10-seat twin turboprop, code- Evektor EV-55 Outback York bankers and industrialists in the floor and a 72-inch stand-up cabin. Simpson named NTx. However, the current economy Evektor remains on the hunt for a fund- 1930s. The Antilles variant will be faster sees Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle has rolled back a decision to launch the pro- ing partner for its new-design twin, the (200 knots) and at 1,200 nm it will have East as the main markets for the aircraft. gram, likely until year-end. EV-55 Outback. In 2003, the Czech more range–if it gets built. Simpson said the company is “still Republic company best known for its sin- chasing money” to cover development and Freight Feeder FF5000 gle-engine light sport aircraft unveiled its New Nose Clipper Spirit certification costs that he estimates at $100 Freight Feeder Aircraft Corp. (FFAC) is new turboprop design positioned to com- A Phoenix company is trying to resur- million to $150 million. He said the com- still on the hunt for cash for its FF5000 pete against the Cessna 208. First flight had rect another classic Grumman flying boat– pany is not accepting deposits but does cargo container twin turboprop. In July, been expected in 2007, then was moved to the Albatross. The New Nose Co. is plan- have letters of interest for 53 aircraft. He FFAC entered into a joint venture with Met- May 2009. That did not happen and the ning an all-composite version of the iconic estimated certification within five years of alcraft Technologies to cut costs and develop company’s goal of certifying the P&WC aircraft badged the ClipperSpirit, with securing financing. At present, the design a flying prototype that the company hopes to PT6A-21-powered aircraft this year is modern turboprop engines and Rockwell is still being refined using computational complete by next year’s third quarter. Work Continues on next page u Hawker Beechcraft Refines Two Classics While sales of its new turboprops are down marginally year- each of the two club seat groupings.
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