Aircraft
Legacy Tails: Hawker 4000
The super-midsize Hawker 4000 business jet finds maintenance refuge after a limited production run.

Kelly Lousch calls them her “little children.”

Lousch is the director of Mid-Continent Aviation Services (MCAS) in Wichita and her “children” are the surviving fleet of 65 Hawker 4000 super-midsize business jet aircraft. MCAS is currently the leading independent support provider for the aircraft following Hawker Beechcraft’s bankruptcy and the subsequent fire sale acquisition of its assets by Textron Aviation for $1.4 billion in 2014.