Textron Aviation

Ron Draper is the president and CEO of Textron Aviation, which builds and services Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker products. He tells Molly McMillin, editor-in-chief of The Weekly of Business Aviation, how his company has been weathering the COVID-19 crisis and why the recovery will be different from the 2008 financial crash.

The $162 million contract includes the aircraft, ground-based training systems, a mission planning and debrief system and ground support equipment.

Textron Aviation has acquired MRO provider Premiair Aviation Maintenance Pty Ltd and its three service centers in Australia.

Deliveries of Dassault’s Falcon business jets have hit a new bottom, at 40 in 2019.

Some Textron Aviation employees in Wichita began reporting back to work on Jan. 6 following an explosion last month.

The Weekly of Business Aviation polled leaders in the general and business aviation industry about what they think lies ahead in 2020 and the challenges they face. This is Part 2 of the two-part series.

The Weekly of Business Aviation polled leaders in the general and business aviation industry about their predictions for 2020.

The explosion that rocked Textron Aviation’s Plant 3 in Wichita last week appears not to have harmed the company’s Cessna 408 SkyCourier turboprop program.

A nitrogen tank exploded at Textron Aviation’s Beechcraft facility in Wichita on Dec. 27.

Textron will not become a pure aerospace and defense company in the near term.

Textron Aviation has completed the mating of the wings to the fuselage of its first new Cessna 408 SkyCourier.

WICHITA—Recent layoffs at Textron Aviation and Gulfstream Aerospace are signs that the manufacturers are being “appropriately cautious” about their

The introduction of a VTOL unmanned aircraft to each platoon will be staggered monthly beginning in April.