Monday, April 11, 2016

But which Textron ?

Textron is now aggressively marketing its name for all new Cessna, Beech and Bell production aircraft. The logic behind this policy is kept well under wraps, but it has now caused its first identification issues.

On April 1st, 49 N-numbers were reserved in the name of Textron (between N60015 & N6088V), and a week or so later eight were cancelled as not taken up. These are N6035J, N6037R, N6043Z, N6053B, N60719, N6080U, N6082L & N6088V . The spread of these registrations is such that they must have been assigned for a specific (foreign) order.

No doubt time will tell what Textron type they could have been, although the address "1 Cessna Boulevard" may narrow it down a bit .

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