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...Hawker Beechcraft has already been a casualty and as a result fell into Textron’s grasp....
...Hawker Beechcraft invested heavily in developing carbon-composite fuselages for its Premier I business aircraft and subsequently the Hawker 200....
...The company mostly sells shares in smaller aircraft — the Nextant 400XTi (a remanufactured Beechjet/Hawker) and Cessna Citation CJ3 variants....
...In the meantime, she has exhibitions to organise, a new corps of curators to wrangle, and an architectural design to steer....
...A hawker pours your drink into the bag, knots a top corner, inserts a straw, pulls a loop of string around it all, and you’re good to go....
...The choice of middle-range models on offer has shrunk, partly because of the 2012 bankruptcy of Hawker Beechcraft, whose Hawker jets were once a significant force in the middle-range market....
...The company – formerly known as Hawker Beechcraft and owned by a consortium of Goldman Sachs and Onyx – sought bankruptcy protection in May 2012 after suffering from declining orders for its Hawker business...
...Hawker Beechcraft, which went bankrupt in 2012, last year left Chapter 11 protection. The structure of the market has changed significantly, however....
...Including maintenance and other support work, Beechcraft valued the order at $1.4bn. Beechcraft, formerly known as Hawker Beechcraft, emerged from nine months under bankruptcy protection in February....
...This network offers maintenance training, full-factory engineering support and MRO, paint and upgrade services on the full line of Hawker and Beechcraft aircraft....
...And Beechcraft, born from the ashes of Hawker Beechcraft by dropping the jets and concentrating on its propeller range, is predicting a bright future partly by reaping the benefit of special mission demand...
...Some observers fear that more companies will suffer the fate of Hawker Beechcraft, which was forced into bankruptcy protection in 2012 and had to close its corporate jet business....
...US authorities had been facing immense pressure from the losing bidder, Hawker Beechcraft, which filed for bankruptcy three months later....
...Beechcraft is anticipating a healthy Chinese appetite for its products....
...Meanwhile, the recycling of some of those older aircraft, spearheaded by Ohio-based Nextant Aerospace, which refurbishes and updates Hawker Beechcraft 400A/XP light jets and sells them as the Nextant 400XTi...
...At the time, the US military said it was not satisfied with documentation supporting the decision to award the contract to the duo after facing pressure from the losing bidder, Hawker Beechcraft, which later...
...A Chinese group bidding for Hawker Beechcraft could not come up with the financing and lobbied vehemently (albeit unsuccessfully) for the return of its $50m deposit....
...It would rename itself Beechcraft Corp and said it was “evaluating its strategic alternatives” for the Hawker business and that these included sale of some or all of the product lines and closure....
...Even sales of the turboprop King Air range, which has the most assured future of all the planes in the Hawker Beechcraft stable, have been hit by uncertainty over the future of the company and therefore...
...The company had to match its capacity and costs to the demand for its products, says Bill Boisture, Hawker Beechcraft’s chairman....
...Superior would keep Hawker Beechcraft’s existing operations, the Kansas-based company said in a statement on Monday....
...Sachs Capital Partners and Onex Corp....
...Robert Miller, chief executive of Hawker, said: “Restructuring our balance sheet and recapitalising the company in partnership with our debtholders will dramatically improve Hawker Beechcraft’s ability to...
...Beechcraft Hawker Beechcraft, the troubled jet maker owned by Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Onex, has agreed to sell itself to a Chinese aviation company for $1.79bn, the FT reports. http://on.ft.com...
...Hawker Beechcraft is likely to cease production of business jets with the loss of thousands of jobs if it fails to conclude a deal to sell itself to a Chinese aircraft maker, the troubled small-aircraft...
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