12 October 2006
Jumping on the bandwagon of the general rush towards VLJs (Very Light Jets), Canadian company Epic has announced that its single-engine Dynasty turboprop will be on display at next week’s <a href=’http://www.nbaa.org/’ target=’_blank’>NBAA</a> Exhibition in Florida.
Although it’s a turboprop, the company sprinkled the acronym ‘VLJ’ around the press release announcing this, clearly hoping that similarities between the Dynasty and a light jet would be noticed. And it does have a good claimed performance: it can fill six seats on full fuel, reach 32,000 ft and cruise at up to 340 kt. Range (with optional tanks) is 1,874 nm. Cost is $1.9m.
As we reported <a href=’newsfeed.php?artnum=284′ target=’_blank’>last month</a>, the aircraft will be the first to be certified by the new Canadian authority.
And Epic does have a real VLJ in the pipeline, too: we should here plenty about the Elite soon.
<a href=’http://www.epicaircraft.com’ target=’_blank’>Epic Aircraft</a>
