Aviation Manufacturers: Hawker Beechcraft
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Hawker Beechcraft Aviation History
The Beechcraft Bonanza
Sporting a distinctive V-shaped or “butterfly” tail, the Beechcraft Bonanza set the standard for the stylish yet well-equipped aircraft for the private pilot, albeit one who could afford to fly in relative luxury.
Hawker Beechcraft Aviation Pioneers
FRANK E. HEDRICK
As a former president of Beech Aircraft Corporation in Wichita, Frank E. Hedrick believed that a person should do any job assigned better than the job had ever been done before.
WALTER H. BEECH
Soloing in 1914, Beech served as an instructor in the aviation section during World War I.
Hawker Beechcraft Aviation Features
Raytheon King Air - Customer Stories
For 40 years, the Beechcraft King Air has enjoyed tremendous success. Each generation of King Air owners have had several memorable moments in the aircraft.
Raytheon Hawker 4000
The Hawker 4000, originally known as the Hawker Horizon, is a super-midsize business jet developed by the Raytheon Aircraft Company.
Hawker Beechcraft Aviation News
Beechcraft Premier IA Tour
On Oct. 29, 2006, the Beechcraft Premier IA, serial number RB161 departed Geneva for a multi-week, multi-country tour.
ASTEC receives Raytheon Coin Award
The National Institute for Aviation Research's Aircraft Structural Testing and Evaluation Center (ASTEC) has received one of Raytheon's Achievement Coins of Excellence.
9,000-Hour TBO Announced for Beechcraft 1900D Engines
Raytheon Airline Aviation Services (RAAS), in conjunction with Pratt & Whitney Canada, has announced the availability of a 9,000-hour overhaul interval for the PT6A-67D engines installed on the Beechcraft 1900D.
Hawker 750 First Flight
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation achieved first flight of the Hawker 750 the newest member of the Hawker family on August 23, 2007.
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation Touts Special Mission Strength at Paris Air Show
King Air 350ER to headline event with ISR capability, recent completion of first combat mission PARIS (June 13, 2009) – Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) this week will tout its strength in the special mission and government business areas and highlight its flagship commercial product during this year’s Paris Air Show
Hawker Beechcraft Aviation Education
Hawker Beechcraft Site of the Month
Hawker Beechcraft Photo Galleries
Hawker Beechcraft Vintage Aircraft
Hawker Beechcraft Air Capital Aviation Report
Air Capital Aviation Report, January 27, 2008
Aviation and aerospace news and items of interest from Wichita, the Air Capital of the World. Apollo Astranaut at Kansas Cosmosphere; Spirit and Russian Partnership; Boeing and Lockheed Team Up; Learjet's New Model 85; Cessna's New Business Jet; and Hawker Appoints New Media Director.
Air Capital Aviation Report, February 10, 2008
Kansas Air Tour, Hawker Beechcraft Corporation Obtains Certification, Boeing Names Former NASA Engineer to Head Space Shuttle Program, Cessna Names Shih to Oversee China Operations, Spirit Aerosystems Assessing Impact of 787 Schedule Shift, Airbus Completes First Test Flight with Alternative Fuel
Hawker Beechcraft Edward H. Phillips, "Barnstorming Wichita's Aviation Past"
LLOYD STEARMAN-AVIATOR, ENGINEER AND KANSAN
At his death in 1975, Lloyd Carlton Stearman ranked as one of America's most successful aviation personalities. His name was a household word, as well known to the man on the street as that of Boeing, Northrop, Piper, Cessna and Beech.
A Chance To See History…
Raytheon Aircraft was the proud host for the 75th Anniversary Travel Air Homecoming Celebration held Oct. 12-14th, 2000, to salute the great Travel Air heritage.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF WALTER H. BEECH
Commercial aviation has witnessed the careers of many legendary personalities, but few have exemplified the drive to succeed as did Walter Herschel Beech.
THE STRANGE SAGA OF A TRAVEL AIR MONOPLANE
Deck: Built only as a proof-of-concept airplane, the first Type 6000 monoplane built by the Travel Air Company was licensed on Walter Beech's honor, later orphaned by Curtiss-Wright and shunned by the Department of Commerce as an aircraft nobody could fly!
DWANE L. WALLACE -- KANSAS VISIONARY
Kansas has had its share of famous aviation personalities--Walter Beech, Clyde Cessna, Lloyd Stearman and Dwane L. Wallace, to name just a few.
Hawker Beechcraft Kansas Aviation Legacy
Turning Point
It’s hard to think of the Bonanza as anything but immortal. After all, it’s a design that has endured for almost six decades.
Beech Aircraft Corporation
Founded in 1932 by Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech, the Beech Aircraft Corporation has left an indelible mark on general aviation.
Beechcraft Starship
The Beechcraft Starship is a futuristic-looking aircraft designed by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites and produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation.
Wichita's Wee Wooden Wonders, Part 3
In 1929, restless young Al arrived to attempt starting a company of his own in Wichita, Kansas, the "Air Capital City" – already home to several plane manufacturers – and 1929's largest civilian plane maker, Walter Beech's Travel Air.
T-6 Texan II
The Beechcraft T-6 Texan II is a single-engined turboprop aircraft built by the Raytheon Aircraft Company (now Hawker Beechcraft).
Beechcraft Staggerwing
The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative stagger (the lower wing is further forward than the upper wing).
AT-10 Wichita
In 1940-41 the Beech Aircraft Company designed an advanced multi-engine trainer for ease and speed of manufacture on a large scale and named it the "Wichita."
Beechcraft Premier
The Beechcraft Premier is the name given to a series of light jet aircraft made by the Beechcraft division of Hawker Beechcraft.
Hawker Beechcraft
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) is an aerospace manufacturing company that builds the Beechcraft and Hawker business jet lines of aircraft.
Hawker Beechcraft Bonnie Johnson With Women In Aviation
Louise Thaden, Former Beech Pilot
Pilot-Performer Bonnie Johnson Operations Manager for Merkel Airplane Company, takes her audience back to 1958, as she reenacts the time when Thaden had just received her first ride in a jet aircraft with her son Bill.
Olive Ann Beech
Universally recognized as the First Lady of Aviation, Olive Ann Beech, has the distinguished honor to be named the first Kansan inducted into the Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame.
Hawker Beechcraft Aviation and Aircraft Videos
Premier 1A
Premier 1A from www.hawkerbeechcraft.com
Hawker Beechcraft Daryl Murphy's "Planes & People"
The Brothers Rawdon
While the name Rawdon isn't exactly a household word in most of the aviation world, Herb Rawdon exerted a great deal of design influence at Travel Air, Douglas, Beech and Boeing.
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