News Releases
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Building Trust With Reliability and Commitment
At Textron Aviation, one of our values is to be trustworthy. We understand that trust is earned with years of reliability and commitment. Our customers, employees and community count on u...
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Meet Tracy Leopold, Vice President of North America Customer Service Centers
Tracy Leopold knew she wanted to work in aviation since she attended airshows with her family as a child. Since joining the company over 20 years ago, Tracy has served the customer in eve...
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Sleek, comfortable and eco-friendly: you can have it all in your aircraft interior design
Interiors that are both beautiful and eco-friendly are nothing new in Cessna and Beechcraft aircraft. In fact, Textron Aviation designers have been offering sustainable premium textiles, ...
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Special Olympics Athletes step inside a Cessna Citation Longitude
As Textron Aviation gears up for the 2022 Special Olympics Airlift, five local athletes visited the Wichita, Kan., facility to meet Ron Draper, president and CEO, while hearing a special ...
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Meet Paris Textron Aviation Service Center Team Members
The Textron Aviation Service Center in Paris demonstrates excellent customer service to customers across 50 different countries. Employees from diverse backgrounds bring their unique tale...
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How Textron Aviation Collaborated with Customers to Design the Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen2
The Citation CJ4 Gen2 was built with the customers in mind. Throughout the design process, Textron Aviation relied on feedback from a Customer Advisory Board to make the best possible imp...
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Women Uplifting Women: How Three Women in Aviation Feel Inspired
Behind every powerful woman is another woman who inspired them. As we close out Women’s History Month, three employees talk about the legendary women who motivate them to fearlessly charg...
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When Women are Empowered, they Soar: Pili Barker
Pili Barker shares her journey of empowerment, from the strength displayed by her mother, to being empowered to succeed herself, to now being an inclusive leader for female voices on her ...
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Textron Aviation launches signature Special Olympics Airlift event in support of 2022 USA Games
Today, Textron Aviation launched the company’s signature industry endeavor — the Special Olympics Airlift (SOA) — and began its call for Cessna Citation, Beechcraft King Air, Beechcraft P...
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When Women are Empowered, they Soar: Channing Dionisopoulos
Channing Dionisopoulos’ career took flight in information technology at Textron Aviation and shortly after, she also became a pilot. Now, as a leader, Dionisopoulos encourages other women...
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Behind the scenes: Meet the technical experts who created the new CJ4 Gen2
The Citation CJ4 Gen2 was built with the customers in mind. Collaboration between the customer advisory board, interiors and engineering created an aircraft with the same reliability and ...
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When Women are Empowered, they Soar: Crystal Grimmett
On the noisy production floor, Crystal Grimmett paved her way to success. As a sheet metal mechanic for the legendary Citation Latitude, Grimmett shares some of the challenges she has ove...
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Meet Lannie O’Bannion, Textron Aviation’s senior vice president of Global Sales and Flight Operat...
In this new role, Lannie oversees global Commercial Aircraft Sales, Pre-Owned Sales, Pro-Ownership, Flight Operations and Business Development functions.
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Celebrating International Women's Day with Future Female Aviators
Today, March 8, we celebrate both International Women’s Day and the start of Women of Aviation Worldwide week. Since the world’s first female pilot Raymonde de Laroche earned her licens...
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Behind-the-scenes: The team behind the new CJ4 Gen2 interior
Success is truly in the details of the new Citation CJ4 Gen2. From the sleek finishes to the intricate stitching, the interiors team at Textron Aviation created a luxury experience for cu...
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Celebrating 65 years of the legendary Cessna Skylane
Today, Textron Aviation celebrates 65 years of the Cessna Skylane 182. More than 23,000 Skylane aircraft have been delivered since its type certification on March 2, 1956.
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Women in Aviation: We can't afford to lose them
Textron Aviation's Kriya Shortt, senior vice president, Global Parts Distribution and Programs, led a virtual panel session with aviation leaders during NBAA GO Virtual Business Aviation...
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How Textron Aviation Engineers Developed the Cessna SkyCourier
This National Engineers Week, we celebrate the Textron Aviation engineers who dedicate their time and talent each day to designing and developing the best aviation experience for our cust...
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Textron Aviation leads in business and general aviation aircraft deliveries in 2020
Textron Aviation delivered nearly 560 aircraft to customers worldwide in 2020, leading the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) annual shipments and billings report published...
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Working on behalf of our customers: Aircraft ownership and operation support
Navigating the aircraft ownership journey can be multifaceted, and our customer support, flight operations and technical teams continuously work together to ensure the ownership experienc...