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Friday, June 09, 2006

First Flight of Conformal Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) Gulfstream Aircraft Completed

Gulfstream G550 CAEW Aircraft Offers Performance, Reliability and Economical Operations
Gulfstream G550

Gulfstream Aerospace, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), successfully completed the first flight of its Conformal Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) special mission aircraft on May 20, just three weeks after it was rolled out from a production hangar at the business-jet manufacturer's Savannah, Ga., headquarters. This extensively modified large-cabin, ultra-long-range Gulfstream G550 jet aircraft will serve as the platform for the Israeli Ministry of Defense's (IMOD) AEW surveillance system.

According to Pres Henne, Gulfstream senior vice president programs engineering and test, the G550 is the ideal platform for this defense system.

"The modified G550 CAEW platform and ELTA Systems' mission suite compete favorably with much more expensive older aircraft at considerably greater operating efficiencies," Henne said. "For much lower acquisition and life-cycle costs, the CAEW G550 delivers higher altitude, longer range and loiter time and more effective electronic early warning systems.

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