Nextant Aerospace announced that it has received a $150 million order from Flight Options for 40 of Nextant's 400XT remanufactured Beechjet 400A/Hawker 400XPs. Deliveries of the modified jet, which feature engines replaced with Williams International FJ44-3APs and Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics, will begin in 2011. Nextant (Booth No. 8245 and at the static display) expects to receive FAA supplemental type certification for the aircraft in the first quarter of next year. Six aircraft are already in production, according to James Miller, Nextant president.
Miller claimed the Nextant program has a two-year jump on Hawker Beechcraft's plans to offer a similar program and did not view the OEM as competition. "Hawker Beechcraft is taking a part of the market [individual aircraft owners] that would be very hard for us to serve," said Miller. The Nextant program, on the other hand, is based on serial production of aircraft in an orderly fashion, similar to new aircraft manufacturing.
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