SEATTLE -- The FAA and Raisbeck Engineering have signed an agreement to have Raisbeck’s Dual Aft Body Strakes Performance System installed on the FAA’s fleet of 17 Beechcraft King Air 300 aircraft. Installations are currently taking place and will continue through the remainder of 2008.
One of the important missions of the FAA’s King Air 300 fleet is checking the airways and calibrating approach avionics. Its King Airs need to be very stable and without yaw instability during these tasks. As company founder James Raisbeck says, the Raisbeck Dual Aft Body Strakes aptly fulfill this requirement by “Putting the airplane on rails."
In 2007, the FAA equipped one of its 300 series aircraft with Raisbeck Dual Aft Body Strakes to judge performance benefits. Officials were so impressed with the promised results that they opted to equip their entire fleet.
Since the market introduction of Raisbeck’s Dual Aft Body Strakes in the early 1980s, more than 2,000 aircraft are equipped with them to date.
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