Eclipse Aviation Corporation was the Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States-based manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 very light jet, and at one time proposed developing the Eclipse 400 single-engined jet.
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11 Facts About Eclipse Aviation
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Eclipse Aviation was important for helping usher in a new category of small jets when the Eclipse 500 was first delivered in 2006.
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Eclipse Aviation entered an unsuccessful Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2008, which was converted into a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation procedure in February 2009.
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Eclipse Aviation operated service centers at Albuquerque International Sunport, Gainesville Regional Airport in Florida, and Albany International Airport in New York.
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Eclipse Aviation was founded by Vern Raburn in 1998 in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the company started to design the twin-engined Eclipse 500 very light jet.
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Eclipse Aviation declared it had not spent any of the deposit money for the Eclipse 400 but the deposits were later a subject of legal action.
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Eclipse Aviation indicated that due to lack of funding it was not in a position to return deposits.
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Eclipse Aviation Aerospace, headed by Mike Press and Mason Holland, offered US$20M in cash and US$20M in new promissory notes, stating that they would locate the new company in the existing Eclipse Aviation facilities in Albuquerque.
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Eclipse Aviation Aerospace provided upgrades to the current Eclipse Aviation fleet and restarted production.
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Eclipse Aviation later merged to become One Aviation and it subsequently went bankrupt in 2018.
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Eclipse Aviation pioneered the use of friction stir welding in aircraft structures, using it extensively in the primary structure of the Eclipse 500.
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