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* First Sports Team to Purchase Blended Winglets * First Blended Winglet Equipped 757-200 Available for Worldwide Charter The owner of the Dallas Mavericks Boeing 757-200 and Aviation Partners Inc. jointly announced, during NBAA, the team owner’s purchase of 1-shipset of Aviation Partners Inc. patented* Blended Winglets. Performance Enhancing Blended Winglets will be installed on… Read more »

“Aviation Partners Blended Winglets give us the ability to provide a high level of service at a much lower cost,” says AirMed Founder & CEO Jeff Tolbert. “The ability to fly 30 minutes farther, or 18 kts faster, make our 800SPs much more valuable and capable aircraft for international patient transport. For us, Blended Winglet Technology is an… Read more »

“Blended Winglets™ are the Single Most Significant Aerodynamic Improvement Ever Developed for Commercial or Business Aviation,” says Clay Lacy Aviation Founder & CEO Aviation Partners Inc.® Plans to Performance Enhance 80% of Existing Hawker 800s and 800XPs Clay Lacy has been flying business jets ever since Bill Lear introduced the Learjet 23 back in the… Read more »

At 250,000 Gallons Saved Per Day, Blended Winglets Will Reduce Global Fuel Consumption by 770,000 Gallons Over 3 Days of NBAA 2005   Over 210 Million Gallons Already Saved by Corporate and Commercial Aviation With 900 commercial and business aircraft currently flying with Aviation Partners patented* Blended Winglets, and 550 additional shipsets to be installed… Read more »

Upgrade Your Hawker to an 800SP or 800XP2 Today – Fly Farther, Faster, Higher with a Lower Fuel Burn and Improved Residual Value Seattle WA. January 19, 2006…NBAA Regional Forum, Boca Raton, FL. With close to 40 orders, and 23 Hawker 800SP and 800XP2 Blended Winglet Shipsets already installed and flying, Aviation Partners Inc.® patented winglet… Read more »

Aviation Partners Inc. Looks Forward to Performance Enhancing Canadian Fleet of 800 Series Hawkers On March 7, 2005 Aviation Partners Inc. received Transport Canada (TC) certification for its Hawker 800 series Blended Winglet Systems. Hawker business jets have always been very popular in Canada and it’s anticipated that the majority of Canadian-based Hawker 800 and… Read more »

Aviation Partners Inc. R Expands Network of Blended Winglet™ Mod Centers On March 22nd Penta Aviation Services, based in Vancouver British Columbia, was named Aviation Partners Inc’s newest Blended Winglet installation center. Penta Aviation joins West Star Aviation (Grand Junction CO), Duncan Aviation, Inc. and Wing Aviation (Conroe TX) as the 4th authorized Hawker Program… Read more »

Veteran Pilot and record setter Clay Lacy, sets another speed record in the newly certified Blended Winglet Equipped Hawker 800. A Performance Enhanced Hawker 800SP captained by Clay Lacy flew the 2753 statute mile from Maui to Las Vegas in 5 hours and 34 minutes at an average speed of just under 500 mph. Fuel… Read more »

Aviation Partners Inc., the world’s leading provider of Advanced Technology Blended Winglet Systems, received FAA Supplemental Type Certification for Hawker 800XP Blended Winglets on December 17, 2004. This follows earlier FAA certification of Blended Winglets for the Hawker 800. “Blended Winglets transform the standard 2600 nm Hawker 800XP to a 2780 nm capable aircraft,” says… Read more »

Aviation Partners Inc. targets over six hundred Hawker 800 series aircraft with its Performance Enhancing Technology Hawker 800 series operators may now look forward to 7% additional range, faster climb to altitude, higher initial cruise levels and significantly improved performance from high and hot airfields with patented* Blended Winglet™ Technology. The Hawker 800 series is… Read more »