Textron
Textron is a conglomerate that designs, manufactures, and services a range of specialty aircraft including small jets, propeller-driven airplanes, helicopters, and tilt-rotor aircraft. Textron Aviation manufactures and services Cessna and Beechcraft planes. Bell is a helicopter and tilt-rotor manufacturer and servicer for both commercial and military customers. Textron Systems produces uncrewed aircraft and armored vehicles for the military market as well as aircraft simulators and training for the commercial and military markets. Textron Industrial contains the Kautex business, which manufactures plastic fuel tanks for conventional and hybrid motor vehicles, and other subsidiaries that produce specialized vehicles such as golf carts and all-terrain vehicles.www.textron.com
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Sep 12, 2026
Tom HaynesGUEST
You're not going to fly these things for 500 miles, but if you're looking to move some things at 100 miles, that's not a problem these days.
GregHOST
Well, I'm surprised we haven't seen, and it's probably going on in the back rooms of these organizations, but like Textron, Cessna, Cirrus.
GregHOST
You think they're working on these behind the scenes, or can you not say? Because they would come after you.
GregHOST
Well,
DennisHOST
Textron bought Pipistrel specifically because of their electric trainer.
DennisHOST
So that gave them a jumpstart on this market.
DennisHOST
So they're clearly looking at it.
Tom HaynesGUEST
point? Yeah, I think you'll see some of these companies eventually get acquired by larger, sort of more traditional aviation aerospace companies, but pretty much all the ones that are out there now have been started from ground zero to develop these airplanes.
TowerHOST
Korean Aerospace Industries, or KI, has been aggressive in the trainer space with the T-50 Golden Eagle, a supersonic jet trainer that appeals to air forces who want to push students to higher performance sooner.
TowerHOST
Textron's Beechcraft T-6 Texan II has decades of United States Air Force and Navy endorsement behind it.
TowerHOST
The Leonardo M-346, an Italian advanced jet trainer, is competing hard for the upper end of the market.
TowerHOST
Pilatus is essentially arguing with the MKX that you do not need to move to a jet to give students a modern avionics environment and realistic cockpit complexity.
TowerHOST
For a 40-year-old airplane whose manufacturer stopped production four decades ago, that can be a real challenge.
TowerHOST
Textron, which is the parent company that now owns the Cessna brand, still supports some parts, but not everything.
TowerHOST
Some components have to be sourced from the used market.
TowerHOST
Some have to be found by hunting down other aircraft that are being parted out.
Eric EricksonHOST
They make them in Kansas.
Eric EricksonHOST
Now, Textron makes the Cessna in Kansas as well.
Eric EricksonHOST
Uh, Cessna makes a great, uh, the, the Cessna Longitude.
Eric EricksonHOST
If I were to buy a plane, it would probably be the Cessna Longitude.
TowerHOST
Dassault, interestingly, faces some of the same exposure that Bombardier does, since they are also a foreign manufacturer selling into the American market.
TowerHOST
Cessna Aviation, which is now part of Textron and builds the Citation series, competes in the midsize and super midsize categories rather than the ultra long-haul space where Bombardier dominates.
TowerHOST
Embraer, which is Brazilian, makes the Phenom and Prater lines and is another foreign manufacturer with significant American market exposure.
TowerHOST
So, the broader question that trade policy raises is not just about Bombardier.
Eric EricksonHOST
They make them in Kansas.
Eric EricksonHOST
Now, Textron makes the Cessna in Kansas as well.
Eric EricksonHOST
Cessna makes a great – the Cessna Longitude.
Eric EricksonHOST
If I were to buy a plane, it would probably be the Cessna Longitude.
TowerHOST
They have been producing composite aircraft primarily at the lighter and more efficient end of the market for nearly forty years.
TowerHOST
In twenty twenty-two, Textron Aviation acquired Pipistrel.
TowerHOST
If you know that name, you know what that means.
TowerHOST
Textron owns Cessna.
TowerHOST
Textron owns Beechcraft.
TowerHOST
They are one of the largest general aviation manufacturers in the world.
TowerHOST
So when Textron decided to add Pipistrel to its portfolio, they were not buying a curiosity.
TowerHOST
They were buying a capability they saw coming.
Craig FullerHOST
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Craig FullerHOST
in fairness, Kansas, I mean, Wichita is the f- uh, home of Textron, which is Cessna.
Craig FullerHOST
So they'll be selling more Citations, uh, out of it, so who knows, uh, John.
Craig FullerHOST
We'll, uh, we'll get back to, to you again next week.
Byron CallanPANELIST
And the idea that you're going to boycott Bombardier jets, well, you know, boycotts can have a way of ricocheting and bouncing around the world.
Byron CallanPANELIST
So what risk does that potentially open for General Dynamics or Textron, for example, that also provide business jets? I think the other part that's intriguing is, you know, the Army Hades program is using a Bombardier jet.
Byron CallanPANELIST
So there's a defense angle to this that, you know, okay, if you're going to start boycotting, well, what would that do to the Hades program if suddenly there has to be a new jet qualified and you already have, I think, the initial jet in that program had been delivered? So I still think this is kind of a theoretical problem.
Byron CallanPANELIST
I'll wait and see when you actually see the actions come down and then the reaction.
TowerHOST
They exist because other pilots already had problems in exactly those locations.
TowerHOST
Moving to the manufacturing side of the industry, Textron Aviation reported this week that Cessna Skyhawk deliveries are running ahead of schedule for the third quarter of 2026.
TowerHOST
The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is the most produced general aviation aircraft in history, with more than 44,000 built since 1956, and the production line in Wichita, Kansas is still active.
TowerHOST
If the training market is absorbing Skyhawks at a pace that has Textron ahead of schedule, that is a meaningful signal about flight school enrollment.
TowerHOST
The private pilot pipeline appears healthy.
TowerHOST
Textron's Beechcraft King Air 360 line is also seeing strong demand from the medical transport and fractional ownership markets.
TowerHOST
King Air production held up as one of the quiet indicators of general aviation health through the supply chain disruptions of recent years, and a continued strong backlog suggests that segment has not softened.
TowerHOST
On the avionics front, Garmin announced expanded type certificate approvals for the GI275 engine indication system.
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