Roel Pieper (CEO from 2008)[1] Vern Raburn (CEO from 1998–2008)
Products
Very light jets
Number of employees
850 (February 2009)[2]
Website
Archives
The Eclipse Aviation Corporation was the Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States-based manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 very light jet (VLJ), and also at one time proposed developing the Eclipse 400 single-engined jet.
The company was founded in 1998 by early Microsoft employee and former Symantec CEO Vern Raburn. Due to Raburn's relationship with Microsoft, Bill Gates was a major stakeholder in the Eclipse project.[3][4][5] The company was known for helping usher in a new category of VLJs when the Eclipse 500 was first delivered in late 2006.[6]
In October 2008, production of the Eclipse 500 was halted due to lack of funding. The company entered an unsuccessful Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2008, which was converted into a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation procedure in February 2009. In the final Chapter 7 procedure, completed on August 20, 2009, there was only one bidder, a new company formed to acquire the assets, Eclipse Aerospace.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Eclipse operated service centers at Albuquerque International Sunport, Gainesville Regional Airport in Florida, and Albany International Airport in New York.[14]
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^Grady, Mary (February 2009). "Most Eclipse Workers Sent Home". Retrieved February 19, 2009.
^Eclipse Aviation (November 2008). "History of Eclipse Aviation". Archived from the original on November 13, 2008. Retrieved November 14, 2008.
^Clark, Heather (January 2008). "Eclipse Aviation Gets Foreign Investment". Archived from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved November 13, 2008.
^Bohman, Bill (November 2008). "Taxpayers invested millions in Eclipse". Archived from the original on August 4, 2009. Retrieved November 14, 2008.
^"What Went Wrong with Eclipse?". Flying Magazine. February 13, 2009. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
^Di Piazza, Karen (October 2008). "Teal Group's Richard Aboulafia's First Eclipse Aviation Report". Archived from the original on January 16, 2009. Retrieved October 24, 2008.
^Niles, Russ (November 2008). "Eclipse Files For Bankruptcy Protection". Retrieved November 25, 2008.
^Spondike, Keith (January 2009). "Judge Approves Sale of Eclipse Aviation's Assets to EclipseJet Aviation International, Inc". Archived from the original on August 6, 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2009.
^Robinson-Avila, Kevin (August 2009). "New company to get Eclipse Aviation assets". Retrieved August 17, 2009.
^Taragana (August 2009). "Eclipse Aerospace says no other bidders appeared for closed Eclipse". Retrieved August 17, 2009.
^Marsh, Alton K. (August 2009). "Sale of Eclipse approved by bankruptcy court". Archived from the original on December 30, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
^Clark, Anthony (November 2008). "Eclipse Aviation may be in financial trouble". Retrieved November 14, 2008.
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