The Worldwide Push for Aviation Biofuels
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January 16, 2015
by Keith Campbell (Engineering News) On October 19, 2004, the world’s first exclusively biofuel powered production aircraft received its certification, allowing it to be flown operationally. That aircraft was (and is) the Neiva (now Embraer) EMB-202A Ipanema crop duster. This is the most recent version of a design that first flew in 1970 as the Embraer EMB-200 Ipanema, and complements the conventionally fuelled EMB-202 model.