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Sino Swearingen Accelerating Toward FAA Certification This Year

Says Third Aircraft Has Now Completed All Tests

Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corp. says it has completed another vital step in the FAA certification program -- Flight Test Aircraft Serial Number 0003 has now finished all of its FAA flight testing, with 100-percent value added to the final FAA certification program, due later this year.

"This marks a major milestone for the Sino Swearingen SJ30 FAA Certification project, said Mark Elwess Senior Flight Test Pilot. "Aircraft N30SJ (SN0003) just completed its last FAA TIA flight testing with the completion of the autopilot performance and malfunction tests after an amazing list of tests accumulated."

Elwess flew the tests along with Senior Flight Test Manager and DER Schuyler Horn, senior flight test engineer and copilot Mark Fairchild and senior flight test engineer and co-pilot, Patrick Carvel.

SJ30-2 twinjet aircraft serial number 0003, is the earliest in the fleet of three flight test aircraft, and has accumulated an extraordinary number of actual flight test hours that exceeded 725 hours. These hours included numerous and wide-ranging combinations of Company and FAA compliance Flight Testing. Tests involved were extensive high Mach lateral directional tests, engine in flight fire suppression tests, in flight unusable fuel tests, flight testing of engine operating characteristics and engine out conditions, engine in flight, air start tests, noise compliance tests, extreme cold and severe hot weather operations tests, engine-airframe natural icing tests and more.

Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation is FAA certifying the new SJ30-2 twin engine business jet at San Antonio TX with over 550 employees in four facilities totaling over 220,000 sq ft throughout the US. The company continues spectacular acceleration in the certification process and recently received the first final FAA TIA for a twinjet business aircraft in over three decades. The final TIA is the last major threshold prior to the FAA certification TC (Type Certification) projected to be final in the second half of this year. The new Sino Swearingen SJ30-2 business jet is a very high performance, ultra long range, intercontinental, twinjet aircraft with an incredible 2,875 sm range (2,500 nm) and one of the highest cruise speeds in the history of the light jet industry at Mach .83 (560 mph).

FMI: www.sj30jet.com

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