This past week I had the privilege of taking a tour of the Hawker Beechcraft factory and corporate headquarters in Wichita Kansas. The tour started at our home base in Tennessee with a flight to ...

Beechcraft Corp. – which was purchased this week by Textron, the parent company of Cessna Aircraft – can trace its history back to a former barnstormer, test pilot and salesman who grew up on a farm ...

Click to open image viewer. The Model 17, the first aircraft produced by the new Beech Aircraft Company of Wichita, Kansas, was a gamble for president Walter Beech and vice-president Ted Wells who was ...

WICHITA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Textron Aviation Defense LLC, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced that if awarded the Undergraduate Jet Training System (UJTS) program contract by the U ...

On this day in aviation history, 93 years ago (November 4, 1932), the first flight of the Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing took place. The Model 17 was an American-built civilian/executive transport ...

Textron Aviation's new single-engine turboprop, the Beechcraft Denali, completed its maiden flight. This milestone represents only the beginning of a long list of significant achievements that will ...

Classic cross-country traveler is built for the long haul with upgraded 300 hp IO-550 and Osborne tip tanks.

1925: Travel Air Manufacturing Co., co-founded by Walter H. Beech, builds OX- 5, first Beech-designed plane. 1932: Walter Beech, a former barnstormer, test pilot and salesman who grew up on a ...

Deliveries of the Premier I, Raytheon Aircraft's first-ever, clean sheet jet, now are approaching 70 units, so B/CA recently surveyed operators to determine how well the aircraft is living up to their ...