“Corporate Jet Investor” lists possible Beechcraft suitors
October 25, 2012 by Alton K. Marsh, Senior Editor, AOPA PilotMahindra & Mahindra
India’s largest auto maker supplies components to Boeing and Gulfstream.
Nextant/Directional Capital
Nextant, which already offers the Hawker 400XP aircraft, might want to offer modifications for other models.
AVIC
China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) has joint ventures with both Embraer and Cessna and owns Cirrus Aircraft.The article states the company could still be interested in Hawker. Other Chinese firms might be interested, Corporate Jet Investor said. Xi’an Aircraft International acquired Austrian composite parts maker FACC in 2009. Hunan Boyun that makes carbon-fiber auto and aircraft parts could possibly be interested in Hawker’s carbon-fiber jet.
BAE Systems
BAE Systems sold Hawker to Raytheon in 1993. It had been hoping to merge with EADS, which owns Airbus, but the deal fell through for political reasons, the magazine said. “Hawker could give it a commercial aircraft business of its own,” the magazine article said.
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November 2nd, 2012 at 7:14 am
Concerning BAE Systems:
BAE systems sold HAWKER to Raytheon in 1993. BEECHCRAFT became a RAYETHON company in 1980 under the hand of Olive Ann Beech, who joined Raytheon’s board.