A remanufactured business jet with state-of-the-art engines and avionics for what is claimed to be 40% the price of a new aircraft of the same type is the impetus behind Nextant Aerospace’s Beechjet 400XT program.

Montréal, Québec, in the parlance of industry and academia, is a “cluster.” That means Canada’s second largest city encompasses within a reasonably circumscribed area the mutually supportive and economically reinforcing elements of design, development, manufacturing, marketing, government, organized labor and education that combine to produce an internationally ranked industrial center with enough history and critical mass to define success — in this case, as Canada’s aerospace capital.

“As an operator, you might want to advocate for air traffic improvements to be expanded as quickly as possible [to further promote green ops]. And if there is regulation of emissions [i.e., cap and trade], I would make a pitch for rational policies that the money extracted from the industry be invested back into the industry in research for green operations and reduction of emissions further.” — Ed Smith, Senior Vice President, International and Environmental Affairs General Aviation Manufacturers Association