This news has been brewing for weeks, but it appears to have reached a critical point. The assets of the ill-fated Eclipse Aviation company, whose rise is described here and here , and demise here and here , may be sold at auction today to a new group of investors doing business as Eclipse Aerospace...
Which follows on this positive update and some earlier sobering news . 1) Another company covering a lot of territory with propeller-driven Cirrus SR-22 airplanes is Midwest Air Taxi , which is based in Iowa and says it serves 450+ airports in the sizeable area below: 2) As several readers have reminded...
Attentive readers will be familiar with the trail of tears recounted here , involving the dashed hopes of the small-jet maker Eclipse and the pioneering air-taxi company DayJet . Sigh sigh sigh. But all along, air taxi companies that have flown passengers not in the spiffy new Eclipse jets but rather...
It has been coming for a while, and today it came: Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Eclipse Aviation, pioneering maker of the Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet. For more background than you'd want to know, check the posts assembled here . Gives an additional bittersweet twist to the splash page on the company's...