Gulfstream G200

The Gulfstream G200 is a twin-engine business jet that was designed originally by Israel Aerospace Industries as the Galaxy and produced by that company for Gulfstream Aerospace from 1999 through 2011. Galaxy Aerospace began the design in the late 1980s in a partnership with the Yakovlev design bureau that ended in 1995, after which Sogerma built the fuselage and empennage and IAI handled final assembly. The jet pairs a new wider fuselage with a strengthened wing from the Astra SPX and two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306A turbofans, and seats eight to ten passengers in a typical layout. It first flew on 25 December 1997, was certified in the United States and Israel by December 1998, and took the G200 name when Gulfstream bought Galaxy Aerospace in June 2001. The last of 250 left the line on 19 December 2011.