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Cessna Aircraft
Picks Up 30 Aircraft Orders At 2011 Sun ’n Fun By Eddy Metcalf |
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April 6, 2011 - Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc.
company, reported that it secured orders for 30 aircraft
at the Sun ’n Fun International Fly-In & Expo that
concluded Sunday in
Sun 'n Fun is a "Fly-in" and airshow held annually at “The opening days of Sun ’n Fun were very positive, and while the storm on Thursday interrupted that mood somewhat, the exhibitors and the crowds bounced back to finish the show strong,” said Mark Paolucci, Cessna’s senior vice president of Sales and Marketing. |
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“Cessna
took 16 orders for the new Corvalis TTX and 13 orders for
high-wing single-engine pistons. Also, a Cessna Sales Team
Authorized Representative took an order for a Grand Caravan.”
The G2000
is the first commercially available touch-screen-controlled
glass flight deck ever designed for a piston aircraft offered to
the general public. The order is part of a multi-year agreement between Cessna and UND’s John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences to modernize its fleet of single-engine piston aircraft and will bring the training fleet to 63 Skyhawks, the largest single fleet of G1000-equipped Skyhawks in the U.S. UND began its acquisition of new Skyhawks in July 2008.
Cessna is
the world’s leading general aviation company. Since its
inception in 1927, Cessna has designed, produced and delivered
more than 192,500 airplanes around the globe. This includes more
than 6,100 Citation business jets, making it the largest fleet
of business jets in the world. Today, Cessna has two principal
lines of business: aircraft sales and aftermarket services.
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