Sino Swearingen Aircraft Corporation
| Manufacturing | |
| Industry | Aviation |
| Founded | 1959 |
| Founder | Ed Swearingen |
| Headquarters | Cedar City, Utah, United States |
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Key people
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Mark Fairchild |
| Products | Business Jets |
| Website | www.syberjet.com |
SyberJet Aircraft is the manufacturer of the SJ30 light business jet. The company's headquarters is in Cedar City, Utah adjacent to the Cedar City Regional Airport with additional engineering offices and manufacturing, service, repair and fatigue test facilities near and on the San Antonio International Airport in San Antonio, Texas.
Sino Swearingen Aircraft Company (SSAC) was the name of the original development company for the SJ30. After a decade of aircraft development and ultimately receiving the Type Certification from the FAA, for the SJ30, SSAC was purchased in August 2008, by Emirates Investment and Development Corporation and was renamed "Emivest Aerospace Corporation." In April 2011 the assets of Emivest Aerospace were purchased by MT, LC of Cedar City, Utah, and in March 2011 the company began doing business as SyberJet Aircraft. On 1 May 2014 SyberJet Aircraft held a ground-breaking ceremony for a completion and delivery center to be constructed adjacent to the Cedar City Regional Airport.
Swearingen Aircraft was founded by Ed Swearingen in 1959. Early work by the company included the development of prototype aircraft for other manufacturers; such as the Twin Comanche prototype developed for Piper Aircraft during 1962 and the development of several research helicopters for the Bell Helicopter Company, work which led to the HueyCobra. The company also developed modifications of other designs, an activity Ed Swearingen had been involved in prior to his forming Swearingen Aircraft. These modification programs included the Excalibur 800 conversion of the Beechcraft Twin Bonanza, (because the combined output of its two Lycoming IO-720 engines was 800 horsepower); airframe improvements included modifying the cabin to allow entry via an airstair instead of over the RH wing to a door, and landing gear doors that fully enclosed the wheels when retracted. The airstair was factory-fitted by Beechcraft during manufacture of the ultimate J50 model of the Twin Bonanza. The Queen Air development of the Twin Bonanza also received the Swearingen treatment, the Queen Air Excalibur having less extensive modifications, also involving fitting of 400 hp (300 kW) IO-720s, replacing the more troublesome and lower-power geared Lycoming engines installed at manufacture, and the enclosed landing gear doors (the Queen Air was designed from the outset with an airstair). The United States Army had several of its U-8 versions of the Queen Air modified to this standard. Excalibur aircraft are easily distinguishable from standard Twin Bonanzas and Queen Airs by the landing gear doors and the more rectangular engine cowlings of the Excaliburs compared to the rounded cowlings of the originals.
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