On 08 February 2023 a Cirrus Vision Jet (SF50) operated by Hillandale Air LLC suffered a runway excursion after a hard landing at Waukesha County Airport (UES)—a public-use airport 1.6-nautical-miles north of Waukesha, Wisconsin. The Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office reported the aircraft landed in such a manner that its nose-wheel touched-down on UES’s Runway 28 prior to its main landing gear. The small jet then departed the runway, coming to rest in an adjacent field. Neither of the aircraft’s two occupants—a pilot and passenger—were injured.
Textron Aviation—the parent company of Beechcraft, Hawker (formerly), Cessna, and Lycoming—is offering a gravel kit for its new Cessna SkyCourier twin turboprop. The kit affords SkyCourier operators flexibility to operate their aircraft from the unimproved runways by which the world’s more remote locales are characterized. First deliveries of the SkyCourier with the installed gravel kit option will commence in February 2023.
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