Wed, Apr 01, 2009
To Reintroduce "Dulcinea 500" VLJ In 2010
ANN APRIL 1st "SPECIAL" EDITION: There's
apparently yet another company hoping to purchase the assets and
intellectual property of now-defunct Eclipse Aviation. Aero-News
received word Wednesday of a mysterious entity, known only as
"Quixotic Enterprises Inc. LLC."
In an exclusive interview, Quixotic president Mike Cervantes
agreed to give ANN certain details of the company's plan.
"We know what you're thinking -- that our name aptly summarizes
what many feel is the term that best describes any attempt to
revive Eclipse," Cervantes said, in a voice that started out meek
but grew in timbre to a powerful bravado. "Some may think this is
only a charade, yet I firmly believe it's a noble quest to dream
the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foes -- certain
technological integration issues, an extraordinarily high debt load
and gross production man-hour underestimations in this particular
case -- and follow that star, no matter how hopeless or how
far.
"The world will be better for this," he added. "We'll fight on
with our last ounce of courage to bring the rechristened Dulcinea
500 to market in late 2010," at a price estimated at somewhere
north of $3.2 million, according to outside reports.
If Quixotic Enterprises is successful in winning rights to
Eclipse assets, Cervantes admits he plans to move the current
production facilities in Albuquerque, NM to the tiny, impoverished
village of La Mancha, Spain... "where many hundreds of skilled
workers were recently laid off with the closure of the local
windmill factory."
Citing industry sources, the Albuquerque Journal reports Alonso
Quijana, an elderly man, has backed the company's bidding efforts
with up to $30 million in unrestricted financing. A spokesman for
Quijana, S. Panza, refused comment.
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