After Hawker Beechcraft last week revealed plans to resuscitate its ailing business by shedding its jet product portfolio and focusing on a line of revitalized piston and turboprop models, a big unanswered question centered on where the bankrupt company would find the funding to develop and certify not just one but as many as four new airplanes.
Now we have an answer. According to insiders, Hawker Beechcraft’s new owners have pledged the money the manufacturer will need to launch one new piston model and perhaps as many as three new turboprop models in the coming years. The first of these could be a Pratt & Whitney-powered turboprop single based on the composite fuselage of the Premier I light business jet, the company revealed.
