Posted on April 25th, 2011
As the investigation continues into the fatal crash of a Gulfstream G650 during a test flight on April 2, the NTSB has said it might be more than a year before the cause of the accident is determined. However, Tom Latson, the NTSB investigator in charge of the accident, confirmed with AIN that the flight-test…
Posted on April 2nd, 2011
A Gulfstream G650 flight-test airplane crashed today at 9:30 a.m. mountain time in Roswell, N.M., killing two Gulfstream pilots and two Gulfstream flight test engineers, the company confirmed. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those who were lost,” said Joe Lombardo, president of Savannah, Ga.-based Gulfstream Aerospace in a press release.…
Posted on February 11th, 2011
Gulfstream G650 S/N 6004 recently demonstrated the model’s high-speed cruising capabilities, flying more than 1,900 nm in 3 hours and 26 minutes. While the aircraft averaged an impressive groundspeed of 550 knots on the coast-to-coast flight, it wasn’t a civil record–in February 2003 Steve Fossett flew his Cessna Citation X from San Diego to Charleston,…
