Aircraft
Hawker 4000 wins certification
It has been a long road for Raytheon Aircraft, but on November 21 the Hawker 4000 (née Horizon) super-midsize received full FAA certification, following th

It has been a long road for Raytheon Aircraft, but on November 21 the Hawker 4000 (née Horizon) super-midsize received full FAA certification, following the award of provisional certification almost two years earlier, and more than 10 years since the program was announced at the 1996 NBAA Convention.

“We probably announced the program earlier than we should have,” conceded Brad Hatt, president of commercial aircraft for Raytheon Aircraft, to AIN during a flight on the new airplane from Westchester County Airport, N.Y., to Nantucket on December 7. “We’re done with clean-sheet designs for a while; derivatives will follow,” he added with a smile underscoring that the protracted development and certification programs for not just the Hawker 4000 but also the Premier I are largely behind the Wichita airframer.

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