Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna may be rolling in their graves as the brands under the Textron Aviation umbrella — Cessna Aircraft, Beechcraft and Hawker — for the first time presented a unified front, exhibiting together at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. It’s only been about two months since the iconic companies were brought together, yet somehow, like the red, white and blue colors that mark their logos, they appear to have blended surprisingly smoothly.
At the Textron Aviation static display outside Geneva’s Palexpo convention center, Beechcraft’s King Airs and Cessna’s Citation jets and single-engine Caravan are lined up side by side, and a table at the booth inside the main exhibit area shows a crowd of models of the diverse family. Being a bizav show, the piston products are excluded from the display. The piston family is, however, not being eliminated.
