Reminiscent of buying an Oldsmobile Cutlass and dropping in a 455
Rocket engine (the third and largest variant of Oldsmobile’s big-block
V-8 engines), Cleveland, OH-based Nextant Aerospace
is bringing new life to the venerable Hawker 400 – an enormously
popular light jet with a great cabin. Newly conceived as the Nextant
400XT, the old aircraft received a total top-to-bottom makeover
remarkably boosting performance, capability and functionality. That
places it squarely in a competitive arena with some of the newest light
jets on the market.
This is an airplane that I know well. My experience with the Beechjet
400A/Hawker 400 started in 1996 at the Hawker Beechcraft factory as a
trade analyst determining values of incoming aircraft. At two
fractional companies, I sold hundreds of Beechjet fractional shares.
Then in 2006, my company, Jet Advisors®,
studied improving the aircraft by using blended winglets and removing
thrust reversers to save weight & drag. Nextant, however, has taken
their aerodynamic testing much further.
Read more here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/businessaviation/2012/10/15/aircraft-makeover-certifiably-as-good-as-new/
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