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Hawker Beechcraft
Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (2007-2012) was an American aerospace manufacturing company that built the Beechcraft and Hawker business jet lines of aircraft.
In 2006, Raytheon sold its Raytheon Aircraft Company to a consortium of Goldman Sachs and Onex Corporation, creating Hawker Beechcraft Corporation early 2007. On 3 May 2012, the company entered bankruptcy. The bankruptcy resulted in the company accepting an offer to be purchased by Superior Aviation Beijing. By 18 October 2012 the negotiations for the sale had failed and the company decided to cease jet production and exited bankruptcy on its own on 19 February 2013, under a new name, Beechcraft Corporation.
Hawker 400 | Hawker 750 |
Hawker 800 |
Hawker 800XPi | Hawker 900XP
Beechcraft King Air |
Beechcraft Super King Air
Hawker 400
The Hawker 400 is a small twinjet corporate aircraft, initially designed and built by Mitsubishi as the Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond, an all-new, all-jet development to complement and slot above the Mitsubishi MU-2 and provide Mitsubishi Heavy Industries with their top-of-the-line corporate aircraft model (hence the name "Diamond"). It first flew on August 29, 1978. Mitsubishi went on to produce 97 MU-300s, all of which were assembled by the company's United States subsidiary.
In 1985 Mitsubishi sold the rights and a number of unfinished airframes to Beech Aircraft, who began manufacturing it as their own model, initially re-designated as the Beechjet 400, certificated by the Federal Aviation Administration in May 1986. Raytheon/Beech Aircraft developed improvements for the 1990 400A for longer range, higher take-off weights, luxury appointments and offering an all-glass flight deck.
In 1993 Raytheon purchased the Hawker business jets from British Aerospace, renamed the Beechjet 400 as the Hawker 400 to include it in the line and the Hawker 400XP incorporated aerodynamic, mechanical and interior improvements from the Hawker 800XP. In October 2008, Hawker Beechcraft upgraded it as the Hawker 450XP including new, more fuel efficient Pratt & Whitney PW535Ds with 2,965 pounds of thrust each but it was canceled in June 2009 due to poor economic conditions.
Hawker 400XP, registration I-TOPX, built 2008, serial number RK-579
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 16 July 2017
Hawker 400 | Hawker 750 |
Hawker 800 |
Hawker 800XPi | Hawker 900XP
Beechcraft King Air |
Beechcraft Super King Air
Hawker 750
Variant of the Hawker 800. With 48 built, this lower-cost, lighter-weight and shorter-range version of the 800XP competes with the Cessna Citation XLS and Learjet 60.
Hawker 750, registration ES-PHR, built 2009, serial number HB-33
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 13 July 2016
Hawker 400 | Hawker 750 |
Hawker 800 |
Hawker 800XPi | Hawker 900XP
Beechcraft King Air |
Beechcraft Super King Air
Hawker 800
The Hawker 800 is a mid-size twinjet corporate aircraft. It is a development of the British Aerospace BAe 125. In April 1981, the British Aerospace Board sanctioned the programme to improve the British Aerospace 125-700 series. By May 1983 the new aircraft (BAe 125-800) was ready for its first test flight. The 125-800 series would become a sales success. After the acquisition in 1993 of the Business Jets Division from British Aerospace and the formation in 1994 of the Raytheon Aircraft Company the Hawker 800 variants were produced by Raytheon until 2007. From 2007 until 2013 the Hawker 800 variants were produced by Hawker Beechcraft. Variants include Hawker 750, 800, 800XP, 800XPi, 850XP and 900XP.
Hawker 400 | Hawker 750 |
Hawker 800 |
Hawker 800XPi | Hawker 900XP
Beechcraft King Air |
Beechcraft Super King Air
Hawker 800XPi
The Hawker 800XPi is a variant of the Hawker 800, featuring midsize cabin, mid range aircraft powered by two Honeywell TFE 731-5BR-1H engines.
Hawker 800XPi, registration CS-DRZ, built 2007, serial number 258847
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 17 July 2016
Hawker 400 | Hawker 750 |
Hawker 800 |
Hawker 800XPi | Hawker 900XP
Beechcraft King Air |
Beechcraft Super King Air
Hawker 900XP
Being a variant of the Hawker 800, the Hawker 900XP is the latest development of the Hawker 800/800XP mid-sized business jet. The Hawker 900XP has improved payload capabilities, enhanced performance and upgraded systems to further improve ease of operation and cost of maintenance.
Hawker 900XP, registration 9H-KAZ, built 2007, serial number HA-0034
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 25 July 2015
Hawker 900XP, registration PK-JBB, built 2011, serial number HA-0188
Prambanan, Indonesia, 8 May 2016
Hawker 400 | Hawker 750 |
Hawker 800 |
Hawker 800XPi | Hawker 900XP
Beechcraft King Air |
Beechcraft Super King Air
Beechcraft King Air
The Beechcraft King Air family is part of a line of American utility aircraft produced by Beech Aircraft. The King Air line comprises a number of twin-turboprop models that have been divided into two families. The Model 90 and 100 series developed in the 1960s are known as King Airs, while the later T-tail Model 200 and 300 series were originally marketed as Super King Airs, with the name "Super" being dropped by Beech Aircraft in 1996 (although it is still often used to differentiate the 200 and 300 series King Airs from their smaller stablemates).
The King Air was the first aircraft in its class and has been in continuous production since 1964. It has outsold all of its turboprop competitors combined. It now faces competition from jet aircraft such as the Embraer Phenom 100, Honda HA-420 HondaJet and Cessna Citation Mustang; as well as from newer turboprop aircraft including the Piaggio P180 Avanti, and single-engine Piper Malibu Meridian, Pilatus PC-12, and Socata TBM.
Beechcraft King Air C90GTi, registration F-HTCR, built 2008, serial number LJ-1887
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 21 August 2018
Hawker 400 | Hawker 750 |
Hawker 800 |
Hawker 800XPi | Hawker 900XP
Beechcraft King Air |
Beechcraft Super King Air
Beechcraft Super King Air
The Super King Air Model 200 was originally conceived by Beech Aircraft as the Model 101 in 1969. The 200 series proved so popular that Beech Aircraft began work on a successor, with the designation Model 300 and marketed as the "Super King Air 300". The first flight of the prototype Model 300 took place on September 3, 1983 and deliveries commenced the following year.
Production continued after creation of the Raytheon Aircraft Company in 1994 and the creation of Hawker Beechcraft in 2007.
Beechcraft Super King Air 350, registration F-HPGA, built 2011, serial number FL-120
Cointrin (GVA), Geneva, Switzerland, 6 July 2016
Hawker 400 | Hawker 750 |
Hawker 800 |
Hawker 800XPi | Hawker 900XP
Beechcraft King Air |
Beechcraft Super King Air
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