End of the line for Hawker business jets?
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hanging off the end of a thread
Posts: 33,073
Received 2,942 Likes
on
1,253 Posts
End of the line for Hawker business jets?
Hawker Beechcraft has called off plans to sell itself to China, and intends to emerge from bankruptcy as a stand-alone company called Beechcraft making piston, turboprop, trainer and special-mission aircraft. The Hawker business-jet product line is to be sold off or shut down.
End of the Line for Hawker?
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Chicago,IL
Age: 56
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
No, not the end of the line by any means. Too popular of of an aircraft, between the Beechjets and the Hawker 800/900's. I DO however see it as an excellent opportunity for a company to come in, buy the spares, tooling, support, and manufacturing rights and do the line right by maintainingand supporting it well. Beechcraft flogged the dog on the jets. Cant maintain jets with a piston/turboprop mentality. Their tech support was bad and their parts distribution still is crap.
is there not a liitle place called Chester that maybe interestedJoin Date: Mar 2004
Location: schermoney and left front seat
Age: 57
Posts: 2,439
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Maybe that would breathe some life into that airframe!
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 185
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The Hawker is such a good looking aircraft and in some ways in a class of its own. I sincerely hope they continue to build them; I think a lot of modern day business jets are very ugly in appearance where as the Hawker still looks very smart.
