Textron Aviation

Textron | March 16, 2017

View Sounding Board: Five Minutes With Textron Aviation President And CEO Scott Ernest in PDF format. Scott Ernest joined Textron Aviation in 2011 after 29 years at GE Aviation. Ernest has led the company through a number of development projects and the merger of Cessna Aircraft and Beechcraft Corp....

Textron | March 16, 2017

Textron Aviation has officially decided that it cannot compete for the U.S. Air Force’s $16 billion next-generation training aircraft program with the company’s...

  | June 29, 2016

Textron Aviation said Wednesday it delivered its first Cessna Citation Latitude business jet to a customer in Mexico. The Wichita-based company did not identify the “corporate customer” but said it’s the third new Citation business jet for the customer. The customer also currently owns a Citation XLS. Avemex, an authorized Citation sales representative in Mexico, will operate the Latitude on its air taxi certificate for the corporate customer, Textron Aviation said....

Textron | January 18, 2017

Textron Aviation on Thursday touted significant growth in its Cessna Pilot Center (CPC) network, saying that it had added 24 new CPC partners in 2016. According to a company press release, five of those new partners were international flight schools....