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Business Class Private Air readers put the G200 through its paces. By: Nick KolakowskiAugust/Sept 07 , Page 88
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The Private Air rating panel trotting across the tarmac of Westchester County Airport couldn’t have asked for a better morning to take to the skies in the Gulfstream G200: sunny and relatively cool for summer, with cotton-ball clouds drifting in the gentlest of breezes. Perfect, in other words, for testing if one of the world’s premier business jets really deserves its soaring reputation. While performance is certainly an issue with jets like the $22 million G200, our raters also focused on the other prime areas of interest to the typical business-jet owner/passenger — cabin, lavatory and galley. Their 34 evaluation criteria included everything from headroom to the size of the icebox. At first glance, the midsize G200 packs a lot of value for its cost. Assuming NBAA IFR fuel reserves, the plane flies up to 3,400 nm with four passengers and two crew, meaning it can travel between New York and Los Angeles without a stopover. It has a normal cruise speed of Mach 0.80 and a long-range speed of Mach 0.75, with a maximum cruise altitude of 45,000 — everything we’ve come to expect from Gulfstream, figures that have only recently been matched by competitors such as the Embraer Legacy 600.
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