BLR’s Super King Air 200 Winglet System receives FAA Stamp of Approval!

November 2nd, 2005; Everett WA: BLR Aerospace announces receipt of STC SA01615SE for their Super King Air 200 Winglet System. This system, designed to reduce drag, save fuel, increase cruise speed and vertical rate of climb while improving handling qualities, is available now! “They’re here and they work,” says Dave Marone, BLR Director of Sales and Marketing. “The Winglet System installs easily and performs as designed.” Production tooling for the winglets is now complete and BLR plans to deliver its first shipset to Cutter Aviation later this month. With the completion of the Winglet System, BLR is evaluating other performance enhancing technologies to augment the winglet performance. The King Air B200 winglet performance improvement is a direct result of an increase in effective wing span and the associated reductions in lift induced drag. This is done simply by adding span and redistributing the intensity of the rotating air mass (tip vortex) over a larger area, thus reducing the intensity of that air mass. In addition to the King Air Winglet System for the 200, the Company is also developing a similar Winglet System for the King Air 90 family of aircraft. The new King Air B200 winglets are a natural outgrowth of BLR Aerospace’s successful development of winglet and performance enhancing systems for the Beechcraft Duke aircraft. BLR’s Duke modifications have enjoyed overwhelming acceptance and now fly on over 50% of the Duke fleet.