From NBAA… “Gulfstream Ups the Ante with New G700 Flagship”:
Gulfstream Aerospace unveiled the G700 as its newest flagship this evening at its NBAA-BACE static display at Las Vegas Henderson Executive Airport. Its latest offering combines the best features of its G650ER and recently certified G500/600, resulting in a $75 million twinjet with an NBAA IFR range of at least 7,500 nm. The G700—available for viewing in cabin mockup form this week at Henderson—has a five-living-area cabin with 20 large, G650-size windows, providing a strong competitive response that industry-watchers were widely expecting.
Though touted as an all-new airplane, the fly-by-wire G700 is actually a 10-foot stretched derivative of the G650, with which it also shares the same nose and wing.
The aft section of the mockup contains a master bedroom with a full-size bed and dresser, in addition to an en suite lavatory with a toilet and vanity opposite from a floor-to-ceiling storage closet.
According to Gulfstream, the G700 will have a maximum takeoff weight of 107,600 pounds and a maximum fuel load of 49,400. Balanced field length at mtow is 6,250 feet, while the landing distance is 2,500 feet at an as-yet-unspecified “typical landing weight.”
One issue with planes that weigh more than 100,000 lbs. (fully loaded) is the requirement that operators put passengers through TSA-style screening. What’s the point of flying private if you have to let TSA workers try on your clothes?
It seems as though the fix might be in, however. From an obscure TSA document from 2017:
Utilizing the regulatory framework allowing the Administrator in 49
CFR 1544.101(f)(2) to establish an alternative program, the TSA should allow airplanes with Maximum Take Off Weight at or below 120,150 pounds to comply with the TFSSP as a means of compliance with the PCSSP in the near term. Long term, the TSA should pursue rulemaking to update the PCSSP weight threshold to 120,150 pounds.
Now we know the weight of the Gulfstream G800!
When will the peasants riot?
Would make a nice little 2nd plane for use when your BBJ is in the shop for its annual.
The Democrats need to “person up” to a B-757 like DJT’s personal ride. In 2016 his plane looked like a stallion and Hillary’s like a marshmallow.
Wouldn’t a 737 MAX will suit them better? Will be happy to recommend a good Ethiopian pilot.
Killing your politic opponents, Putin endorses this!
Obama always says if you like your 200 hour Ethiopian co-pilot you can keep him!