Features the SJ30-2 business jet aircraft manufactured by the company Sino Swearingen. Who designed the aircraft; Details on the planes avionics; Modifications made to the plane during production; Interior design of the SJ30-2; Background...
In 1958, Swearingen launched his new company, Swearingen Aviation. His objective was to hire himself out as an engineering consultant to other aircraft manufacturers and eventually manufacture his own proprietary products and aircraft. One of his first clients was the Piper Aircraft Company. Piper was...
Pratt & Whitney, and its parent company Raytheon Technologies (RTX), are working with operators to schedule engines to be taken from the aircraft and inspected. The manufacturer aims to begin the first batch of inspections by the mid of September. Raw material impurities Pratt & Whitney has i...
1969. Swearingen Aircraft encountered financial difficulties at this stage, and late in 1971 Fairchild (which was marketing the Metro and building its wings and engine nacelles), bought 90% of Swearingen and the company was renamed Swearingen Aviation Corporation. It was at this point that the pr...
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This paper provides background information on the startup of the new company, Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation, and the development of the SJ30-2 configuration including the current status of the flight tests, structural tests, and certification aspects of the program.Ronald D. Neal...
Beech Aircraft agreed to supply Swearingen with Queen Air wings and Twin Bonanza landing gear for the Merlin I. He contracted with Pratt & Whitney which gave way to the Merlin II in late 1966. By 1971, Swearingen was so deeply in debt to Fairchild that he sold his company to the ...