Beechcraft
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- Company.name
- Beechcraft Corporation
- Company.logo
- Beechcraft_logo.svg
- Company.type
- Brand
- Company.industry
- General aviation
- Company.founders
- Walter BeechOlive Ann BeechTed A. Wells
- Company.location_city
- Wichita, Kansas
- Company.location_country
- United States
- Company.products
- List of models
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Beechcraft is an American brand of civil aviation and military aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Originally, it was a brand of Beech Aircraft Corporation, an American manufacturer of general aviation, commercial, and military aircraft, ranging from light single-engined aircraft to twin-engined turboprop transports, business jets, and military trainers. Beech later became a division of Raytheon and then Hawker Beechcraft before a bankruptcy sale turned its assets over to Textron (parent company of Beech's historical cross-town Wichita rival, Cessna Aircraft Company). It remains a brand of Textron Aviation.
== History == thumb|Main Beechcraft plant in Wichita, Kansas, circa 1956 thumb|Beechcraft Staggerwing|Beech D17S Staggerwing
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