Hawker Beechcraft has brought examples of its entire commercial product range to EBACE for the first time, 10 aircraft forming its “global demonstrator fleet.” Its static park display includes a recently certified King Air 350i and C90GTx; a Hawker 4000, 900XP, 750 and 400XP; a Premier IA twinjet; a Baron G58 piston twin; and a Bonanza piston single.
The U.S. manufacturer’s flagship aircraft, the Hawker 4000, has continued to break records in the super-midsize business jet category, establishing five world records since it recorded its first en route to last year’s EBACE show. The latest took place on January 17 between London and Dubai. The 4000’s first record was set last year on October 8, when a Hawker 4000 traveled from Lisbon, Portugal, to Berlin, Germany, a distance of 1,253 nm, in exactly three hours, for an average speed of 482.13 mph. The next day the aircraft completed a second record leg between Berlin and Milan, Italy, with an average of 395.62 mph over the 448-nm distance, in an elapsed time of 1 hour 14 minutes.
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