Hawker Beechcraft

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Hawker Beechcraft Corporation

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legal form Corporation
founding 1994 (as Raytheon Aircraft)
resolution 2013
Seat Wichita , Kansas , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Jim Schuster (CEO)
Number of employees 7,400
sales 2,435,000,000 US dollars
Branch Aircraft construction
Website www.hawkerbeechcraft.com
As of December 31, 2011

The Hawker Beechcraft Corporation , formerly Raytheon Aircraft , was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Wichita , Kansas , who produced in the period from 2006 to 2013 Beechcraft and Hawker business jets. The company had to go under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 3, 2012 . On February 19, 2013, the company was able to break away from bankruptcy protection under the new name Beechcraft Corporation . Since March 2014 the Beechcraft Corporation has been part of Textron Inc. This already includes Cessna and Bell Helicopters . The Textron Group unites all aviation companies under the Textron Aviation name.

history

As of February 8, 1980, Beech Aircraft Corporation was owned by Raytheon Company , a US conglomerate . In August 1993 Raytheon also took over the business jets division from British Aerospace . Both acquisitions were merged in mid-September 1994 to form the new Raytheon Aircraft .

In 2006, Raytheon made the decision to focus on military projects and sell off the loss-making civil aircraft industry. On 21 December 2006 an agreement was reached with the Canadian Onex Corporation and the US Goldman Sachs , which then the holding company Hawker Beechcraft Inc. founded. That company acquired Raytheon Aircraft, renamed Hawker Beechcraft Corporation , on March 26, 2007 for $ 3.3 billion.

The company is located in Wichita, Kansas, where 6,300 of the over 8,000 employees are employed (as of 2007). Other production sites are Little Rock in Arkansas , Salina in Kansas and Chester in the UK . The company has over 100 authorized customer service centers worldwide.

On May 3, 2012, Hawker Beechcraft had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to its high debt level of around $ 2.5 billion. By that time the company had delivered over 54,000 aircraft.

As of February 19, 2013, the company is no longer under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will continue to operate under the new name Beechcraft Corporation . The new and "narrower" company will continue to produce the King Air line, the T-6 and AT-6 and the piston-powered aircraft Bonanza and Baron. The company will continue to provide support for the original Hawker Beechcraft portfolio.

Products

Civil aircraft

Military aircraft

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hawker Beechcraft CEO Jim Schuster To Retire , November 20, 2008
  2. ↑ a b Form 10-K of the Hawker Beechcraft Acquisition Company, LLC
  3. ^ Raytheon to sell jet subsidiary . Weisman, R. The Boston Globe , December 21, 2006
  4. ↑ wsj.com: Hawker Beechcraft Files for Chapter 11 , May 3, 2012
  5. ↑ Mike Jerram: Hawker Beechcraft files for chapter 11 . In: AIR International June 2012, p. 26
  6. ^ Russ Niles: Beechcraft Corporation Emerges From Bankruptcy. AVweb, February 19, 2013 (English)
  7. ↑ Beechcraft starts the propellers. Handelsblatt , August 21, 2013