SJ30 Here With New Hardware

Customers-150-plus of them, loyal fellows all-of the long-awaited Sino-Swearingen SJ30-2 will soon be asked to specify color and fabric choices for the high-performance light jet's interior. The cabin mockup here (Booth 2384) reflects some of the detail changes that the company has made to ensure more efficient use of the cabin space.

Gone is a space-eating coat closet, replaced by an optional storage area with foldaway coat hooks. A half-height partition incorporates a fan-type "close-out" that provides full privacy for the lavatory but causes minimum obstruction when it is open. The production-type seats are located in a club arrangement. The forward-facing seats are wider than the aft-facing seats and can be reclined into full berths. The mockup uses premium rather than standard fabrics.

The interior of the first conforming SJ30-2 prototype, on show (in static space 16) for the first time here, is more spartan-it is full of test equipment, although the nose boom carrying flight-test sensors has been removed for the duration of the show. It does, however, feature the three-tube Honeywell Primus Epic avionics system that will be used on production aircraft.-Bill Sweetman