The article features a 2008 Eclipse 500 as "Today's Top Pick" from Aircraft For Sale, appealing to those dreaming of owning a personal jet. The Eclipse 500 is a very light jet (VLJ) conceived in the ...

January 19, 2007 Eclipse Aviation delivered the world’s first very light jet (VLJ) customer aircraft earlier this month, intent on clearing the waiting list of more than 2,500 aircraft. Given the ...

When an Eclipse pilot at Chicago Midway Airport firewalled the throttles for a go-around caused by wind shear, the engine controls stuck in the maximum-thrust position. The very light jet landed ...

Eclipse Aviation is having a tough summer. The maker of the six-seat, 33-foot, 3,500 pound Very Light Jet has racked up orders for more than 2,000 of its Eclipse 500s, but things aren't going all that ...

April 1, 2006 The dream of Eclipse Aviation ‘s Vern Raburn has long been to bring the word "personal" into aviation, by building an affordable very-light jet , enabling commercial air passengers to ...

Deal flounders when manufacturer returns former internet auctioneer's stock deposit after low value hinders sale Eclipse Aviation has terminated its landmark 1,000-aircraft purchase deal with Nimbus ...

Air-taxi operator Linear Air expects its first Eclipse 500 very light jet to arrive at the Part 135 company's home base at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts this week after formally accepting ...

Eclipse Aviation, the Albuquerque, N.M. startup company that inspired a new generation of Very Light Jets with its Eclipse 500 aircraft, won FAA type certification approval Sept. 30. The TC was ...

If you’re looking for your own private jet, then $1,295,000 will buy you this Eclipse 500, a twin-engine very light jet (VLJ) that can carry six passengers at 408 mph for 1,495 miles on a tank of fuel ...

The manufacturers of the Eclipse 500 are determined to prove their new entry-level business jet is ``the little airplane that could'' revolutionize air travel. Skeptics, however, believe the Eclipse ...

Eclipse Aerospace is reviving its very light jet product, and taking orders for its new twin-engine aircraft, the Eclipse 550. The company, at last week’s National Business Aviation Association’s ...