Hawker Beechcraft in talks with Chinese company for $1.8 billion sale

[gaz]

It would only be the general aviation and business aviation divisions and not the defence division but that's still an awful lot of manufacturing output and I'm sure there will be worries about jobs moving from Wichita and Little Rock to China.

EDIT - Replace the stars with the famous news agency that begins with an R.

http://in.*******.com/article/2012/07/10/us-hawkerbeechcraft-sale-idINBRE86817J20120710

[Arfah]

Excellent. Its be nice to see China building something a little better than copies of the AN2. It's masters of industry should travel speedily across the PRC with a little more comfort and a modicum of style.

[gaz]

Excellent. It's be nice to see China building something a little better than copies of the AN2. It's masters of industry should travel speedily across the PRC with a little more comfort and a modicum of style.

They've got Cessna Skycatchers for that.

[Arfah]

The Chinese sem to be leaping ahead with their U.S. acquisitions.

[Roebuck]

The Chinese sem to be leaping ahead with their U.S. acquisitions.

we're selling ourselves out.

is there any U.S. baseed aircraft maker left?

[gaz]

we're selling ourselves out.

is there any U.S. baseed aircraft maker left?

Boeing, Piper, Cessna, Gulfstream, Lockheed....

[Silent Reader]

also Honda will manufacture their HondaJet in the US (in cooperation with Piper)

[gaz]

also Honda will manufacture their HondaJet in the US (in cooperation with Piper)

Eclipse, Cirrus, Embraer have just opened a factory in Florida for building Phenoms.....

[Mujo2000]

we're selling ourselves out.

is there any U.S. baseed aircraft maker left?

Who is "we"?

[timetraveller]

Bad news indeed . let them lazy bastards ... get the finger out of there ****** and start actually using there fukin loaf instead of takin the easy route buy an established Aviation brand to cut corner .. if this sale does go thro ..



Expect the build quality to drop ...

[gaz]

Bad news indeed . let them lazy bastards ... get the finger out of there ****** and start actually using there fukin loaf instead of takin the easy route buy an established Aviation brand to cut corner .. if this sale does go thro ..



Expect the build quality to drop ...

Or it could be like the Indian company Tata buying Jaguar Landrover - it could actually turn the company around completely and pull them out of the shitter.

[MRAPer]

Eclipse, Cirrus, Embraer have just opened a factory in Florida for building Phenoms.....

Three companies building one aircraft? BTW, Cirrus has already been sold to China

[American Caesar]

Geez is Barry gonna have to go over there and ask the Chinese to play fair again?

[gaz]

Three companies building one aircraft? BTW, Cirrus has already been sold to China

Sorry, that was just poor writing on my part. Eclipse and Cirrus was a continuation of the list of aircraft manufacturers with factories in the States whilst Embraer have just opened the new factory in FL.