Sino Swearingen's SJ30 was on display at EBACE in May, sporting a new corporate livery. The

aircraft arrived at Geneva Airport having flown from its San Antonio, Texas facility to Action Aviation's UK headquarters at London Luton Airport.

Action Aviation is the distributor for the Sino Swearingen SJ30 in 66 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Russia.

Hamish Harding, chairman of Action Aviation, was one of the flight crew which flew the aircraft from Texas to Geneva, along with Sino Swearingen chief test pilot John Siemens. "The SJ30 is as easy to fly as other well-known light corporate jets, yet flies 70-100 Kts faster than they do," Harding said.

The company has ordered a total of 159 aircraft from Sino Swearingen by placing 159 non-refundable deposits (over half of the 300 production aircraft already sold to date by the manufacturer) to service its sales territory of Europe, the Middle East and Russia.

Said sales director Mike Creed: "The Russian and Middle Eastern markets are especially buoyant at present and interest in the SJ30 is strong, probably because of the longer range flights often required from these territories."