Story ID: 402
G600 Flies To LABACE Ready To Serve
By: David Donald
Caption: Now fully approved by the FAA, the G600 is on show at LABACE just days after the first example was handed over to its new owner.
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On the heels of first delivery of the G600, Gulfstream displayed the aircraft at LABACE, where it made its Brazilian debut last year. It was shown alongside a G650ER and a G280. The company handed over the first example of its large-cabin, long-range G600 to an undisclosed U.S. customer on August 8.

Handing over the first aircraft is another major milestone for the program, following the June 28 award by the FAA of both type and production certificates. The G600’s smaller stablemate—the G500—also received dual certification simultaneously on July 20, 2018. The G600 certification effort included 100,000 hours of laboratory testing and 3,200 hours in the air.

“Getting both authorizations on the same day is evidence of the maturity of our G600 production processes and speaks to the safety and reliability of the aircraft’s design,” said Mark Burns, the Savannah, Georgia-based airframer’s president.

The G500 and G600 were developed in parallel, and both aircraft are powered by Pratt & Whitney PW800-series turbofans, the first Gulfstream products not to feature Rolls-Royce power. With PW815GA engines the G600 can achieve a range of 6,500 nm at its long-range cruise speed of Mach 0.85, and 5,500nm at a high-speed cruise of Mach 0.9.

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