Hawker 4000 Super-Midsize Jet tours India

Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) has brought its newest aircraft, the composite-fuselage, super-midsize Hawker 4000 to India for customer demonstrations as part of a six-month world demonstration tour. The aircraft will spend time in Mumbai Sept. 19-20, 2007 and New Delhi Sept. 21-22, 2007 flying key customers as well as being available for viewing on static display. The airplane has already been on a demonstration tour in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Three of the new Hawker 4000s will be delivered to customers in India in 2008.
HBC enjoys a long history of selling aircraft into India. Of the approximately 122 business, turbine-powered aircraft in India today, 73 are Hawker or Beechcraft products.
The Hawker 4000 carries six passengers over 3,000 nautical miles at a Mach 0.82 cruise speed and four passengers can be carried over 3,300 nautical miles at a cruise speed of Mach 0.75. These ranges give passengers flying from Mumbai the capability of reaching Cairo, Moscow, Shanghai, or Jakarta non-stop.
21/09/07 Moneycontrol.com

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Categories: Foreign Sep 2007, General Aviation Sep 2007