“We all appreciate having options, and we hope operators of CJ3’s and Falcons will take us up on this great offer to try our tires on their jets,” says Eric Varndell, global marketing manager.
“In view of recent structural changes in the market place, we recognized that the demand for radial aircraft tires would continue to increase,” explains global general manager Bert Aertssen. “Therefore, we jumped ahead of the growth curve and launched in 2008 an important expansion project that will result in doubling our capacity to build light weight radial tires to serve our airline, military and business jet customers by the end of the first quarter 2011.”
The introduction of light alloy metal bead cores and body plies made from merging of tough-yet- light materials, such as aramid and nylon, has resulted in further weight reductions, according to Aertssen.
“In the more than 100 years that we have been providing innovative solutions to the aviation industry, our desire to help our customers reduce their cost of operation has always been our driving force,” he says.
“Our radial tires provide operators all over the world with the right, technologically advanced solutions to further improve their competitiveness,” adds Aertssen.
The company’s tires will be original equipment on the Gulfstream G650 business jet when it takes flight in 2012.
“The expansion of our radial capacity provides Goodyear with even more flexibility to work with customers on new products and fitments, such as this exciting opportunity with Gulfstream,” Aertssen says. “We look forward to making similar announcements of new business opportunities in the near future.”
For more information, visit www.goodyearaviation.com.
