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The Premier I – Raytheon’s first all-new business jet from original design – has obtained its final two basic certification requirements. The $5.3 million jet now has FAA certification for single pilot and flight into known icing.
The single pilot certification required a total of six flights into high-workload environments, instrument meteorological conditions and night flights. Certification flights for icing involved flights into known icing and using residual ice shapes to determine aircraft landing.
The Premier I, which has a high-speed cruise of around 520 miles per hour, is the first in a series of business jets from Raytheon and is the first composite-fuselage business jet to be FAA certified.