Take a Full Tour of Gulfstream's new G700 Aircraft - AIN | YACHT & AVIATION

With its 7,500 nautical mile range, Gulfstream's new G700 flagship is being built for globetrotters. Passengers could end up spending just over 14 hours on the aircraft, so it better be comfortable. And from the look of its super spacious cabin, it most certainly will be. Ahead of the new aircraft's dramatic launch at the 2019 NBAA show, AIN enjoyed a sneak preview of the cabin mock-up that is part of the testing process for the new model. We're in the new G700 mock-up for Gulfstream, and this is the entryway, so it's brand new. So one thing that we've done here is allowed a little bit of customization, so we reserve a little bit of space whether the customer wants to do artwork, their logo, or if they just really want a clean design, that's also an opportunity for them to explore little customizations they can put on the aircraft. Just aft of the entryway is the forward lav, which opens up aft and allows you to have a nice little crew or forward lav. We're showing all stone floor as an option for the entryway as well. And coming in, you're coming into probably the largest in its class galley. It's 122 inches of linear counter space. It's about 20% more storage than a 650, and it really allows you to have a first-class dining experience in the aircraft. We also have an integrated galley stack with your microwave and oven that's on this side, so if you combine the stack with the galley, you really have about 138 inches of galley storage. We have two storage cabinets on either end, a forward closet and an aft closet, and if you wanted to convert this into a pantry, that's an option as well. So we also have new galley doors that open up and allow you to have complete access to your amenities without having any exposed hardware or actually having the door in your way. Some of the things that we've done, we've also integrated a nice clean galley top. You don't see any faucet, so the faucet is an extendable faucet that pops up and allows you to still use the galley, but then that sink can go away and can be completely invisible, and then you get a nice clean design. So in this space, for the mock-up, we made it a little bit more social. We put a divan in here, but you can also get a single seat with an ottoman for a 135 crew rest, which would have a bulkhead across there to allow you to have complete privacy crew rest. We also have done a little bit of lighting features, a lot of indirect. You'll see a little indirect sconce here, and also on the ceiling, we have an indirect dome light. What really that was, it was really to make the aircraft feel a lot softer than ever before, so you don't have a lot of hot, bright spots. So now we're in the main cabin of the G700. These are the brand new seats for the interior, which you see all new styling, which we made it so you can customize these seats a lot more than ever before, and also based on the long-range comfort from the 500, we built on that platform as well. So now you're seeing a nice wood panel inset, but this can also be paint or veneer to allow a lot of flexibility of letting the customers choose a lot of different options. You'll also see a lot of the curves and softness of this arm matches the characteristics in the ledge, so that design was really integrated to make it feel like a complete package. So that's one thing that people have responded well to, seeing all the architecture that meshes together. The ledge design, we have quite a few new features. We have an integrated tablet holder, which makes the customer be able to bring their own devices and place that and stow that, and it's integrated so there's no adding anything to the aircraft, it's just already there. We have two cup holders, a large and a small. We have a personal space for allow for phones or anything else they want to do, and then inside, we also have ledge storage that allows quite a large amount of space for whatever they want to do with their reading material, bags, anything they want. It also comes with USB outlets, also in the bin, and also in the storage bin below. One thing for the G700 that's brand new is the lighting system. It really allows the user to have flexibility that they've never had before, with the density of the LEDs being tighter than anything out in the industry. Almost a 32nd of an inch, they're close together, which allows you to have this beautiful light because the clusters are so nice and tight together. Also, we also have the ability to create scenes, so the individual LEDs are accessed, so you can pretty much paint the color any way you want and animate it. So you could have a sunrise starting from this side, coming up over, and ending up on the complete other side of the areas, which is, and really the possibilities are endless of what you could do with light. We can have individual sconces, you could have theater lighting that goes up, we can shape light from being bright here and dark in the back, and it can actually transition from one to another. So really, there really is no limits of what you could do with the lighting in this aircraft. So one thing that's new for the G700 as well is the ultimate dining experience. So that's really allowing six people to seamlessly dine together in a very intimate way than never before. So what happens is, right now we kind of have it set up, it's a lower pedestal that's set up as an ottoman, so if you want to sit here and put your feet up, allows for a very nice atmosphere. But the ottoman transforms very easily, comes away, allows the single pedestal to come up, so we can dine six people together or separately. But if we're going to show that together, so it basically slides over, and then it flips over, that comes over and connects, and the leaf, which is already here, folds out, installed, so then you have a beautiful dining table that's ready to go in seconds. So now you're in the fourth living area for the G700. So this is something new for Gulfstream. So if you have a 650, this is a brand new area. So we decided to develop a bed. We know sleep is really important to the customers. You know, if you're going to be traveling, there's no better way to get a rest than in your own bed. So we've hopefully made this experience even better. We've allowed to have a little articulation in the bed to really allow you to be able to, if you're going to watch TV, whether you're going to sleep or relax, it sets the tone for the whole atmosphere of the plane. It's really built around your needs. So we're in the G700 lavatory, and it's set up to be more like a spa setting. A lot of little things we've done, a little bit of softer seating for the lab seat, a really nice size vanity. So we also provided a large wardrobe for you as well, so you can bring pretty much anything you want along. You can also see that we've trimmed this out a little bit custom, but you can do anything you want in here. It comes basically an open pallet for you to kind of paint with. We're seeing one configuration in this lab, but there's actually a lot of different configurations. There's almost six for this aircraft. So we have a shower that can go here, which gives you a small closet. And then this arrangement would slide over here on this side. So you have vanity and toilet, which allows you to have a shower along with the aircraft as well. If you would like to find out more about what the new G700 will bring to the market when it enters service in 2022, please watch our earlier video report on this important program at AIN Online. If you've enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up, share it, and subscribe to our channel. Also, visit AINOnline.com and check out our e-newsletters for all the latest on the aviation industry.