TEXTRON AVIATION

Stephen Costley July 28, 2026

TEXTRON AVIATION earned $165m on $1.54b revenues in 2Q26 vs $170m on $1.52b in 2Q25; it delivered 40 jets and 44 commercial turboprops vs 49 jets and 34 turboprops a year ago and now has $8b backlog. BELL revenues rose 6%.

Stephen Costley

Steve Costley is responsible for the overall production SpeedNews. Steve has over 30 years of experience with SpeedNews, now part of the Aviation Week Network. He joined the company in August 1989 as an Associate Editor and was named Managing Editor in 1994. He was also named Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of SpeedNews, Inc., in the late 1990s, and held those titles until Prism Business Media acquired the company from Gil Speed in 2006.

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