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After the 2013 bankruptcy of Hawker Beechcraft, the surviving company, Beechcraft, discontinued its business jet range, including the 800 series, although the designs are still supported for parts. By 2018, a 1980s-era 700s was priced for less than $500,000, a 1995 800A at $1.02 million and a 2012 900XP at $6 million.
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) was an American aerospace manufacturing company that built the Beechcraft and Hawker business jet lines of aircraft between 2006 and 2013. The company headquarters was in Wichita, Kansas , United States, with maintenance and manufacturing locations worldwide.
The first Hawker design was the unbuilt Hawker Humpback of December 1920. [2] This was soon followed by the Hawker Duiker , the first prototype, which flew in July 1923. [ 3 ] In the interwar years , Hawker produced a successful line of bombers and fighters for the Royal Air Force , the product of Sydney Camm (later Sir Sydney) and his team.
Beechcraft Model 18: 1937 9,000+ Twin piston engine monoplane transport airplane Beechcraft Model 19 Musketeer Sport: 922 Single piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model 22 N/A 0 Unbuilt bomber [1] Beechcraft Model 23: 1961 2,331 [a] Single piston engine monoplane utility airplane Beechcraft Model M-23N N/A 0
Textron eViation Nexus Tiltrotor eVTOL model at EBACE 2023. Textron completed its purchase of Beech Holdings in March 2014 for approximately US$1.4 billion in cash. The parent company, Textron, financed the equity purchase and the repayment of Beechcraft's debt in cash, plus its issue of US$600 million in senior notes and a new US$500 million five-year term loan.
After the jet achieved full production, the name was changed to "HS.125" except for American exports which retained the DH.125 until it was replaced by BH.125 for Beechcraft-Hawker. When Hawker Siddeley Aircraft merged with the British Aircraft Corporation to form British Aerospace in 1977, the name changed to BAe 125 . [ 8 ]
Beechcraft is an American brand of civil aviation and military aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, [1] headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.Originally, it was a brand of Beech Aircraft Corporation, an American manufacturer of general aviation, commercial, and military aircraft, ranging from light single-engined aircraft to twin-engined turboprop transports, business jets, and military ...
The government of Mozambique currently uses a Raytheon Hawker 850XP registered FAM-002, owned by the country's Air Force, and a VIP Bombardier Challenger 850 registered C9-MEL, owned by Mozambique Expresso Airlines, for VIP travel. During Communist rule, a Tupolev TU-134AK was used by the government for travel.