Fairchild Aerospace Unveils Spacious Envoy Interior Mock-Ups

It has the range of a Gulfstream IV, roughly the same speed and price, and it can carry a GIV in its cabin. That's how Fairchild Aerospace chairman Carl Albert described the new Envoy 7 Monday as he unveiled a stunning cabin mock-up of the new aircraft.

Oh, and it has better field performance than the GIV, he remembered. Fairchild president Jim Robinson described the Envoy 7 as the final member of the Fairchild Aerospace family of regional and corporate aircraft. "We have rounded out the program, now all we have to do is execute," he added.

According to Albert, the Envoy 7 offers $40 million accommodations for less than $30 million. Indeed, the first 10 units will go out of the factory door at $28.5 million in 1999 dollars-complete.

"The Envoy 7's spacious cabin offers ample room for a large conference area, business-class seating for 10, and a stateroom with en-suite lavatory, shower and dressing room." He said that almost 200 cubic feet of baggage space will be accessible in flight. The interior mock-up, as well as that of the Envoy 3, which also is at the Fairchild Booth (8376), was designed by Benn Isaacman of Tucson-based Isaacman Design Associates. His firm also designed the interior mock-ups for the two Bombardier airplanes on the exhibit floor, the Hawker Horizon, the Sino Swearingen SJ30-2, and the VisionAire Vantage.

The Envoy 3 interior is very similar to that of about 80% of the Gulfstreams in the fleet. Although never designed as a long-range airplane, the Envoy 3--at $13 million--will offer the chairman a Gulfstream cabin for those shorter trips of under 2,000 miles that make up the vast majority of missions flown by the Gulfstreams, said Craig Fahning, corporate aircraft sales VP and a former Gulfstream hand.

"It is a big-jet cabin for a midsize jet price," he added.