# Cessna will buy Beechcraft **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cessna-will-buy-beechcraft/677302 "2013-12-27T19:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cessna-will-buy-beechcraft/677302/1 "2013-12-27T19:32:36Z")
[Link](http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Textron-Confirms-Beech-Acquisition-Updated221180-1.html) Well, Textron, the company that owns Cessna, will buy Beechcraft. Cessna shows little interest in promoting General Aviation, at least insofar as providing the aircraft needed to produce the pilots needed to fly the products they do want to make. The Skyhawk is priced well out of the range of its target market. In October, Cessna said ‘there’s no future’ for the Skycatcher. Beechcraft has been out of the training/family market for 30 years. I wonder if they’ll keep making the Bonanza? ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cessna-will-buy-beechcraft/677302/2 "2013-12-28T03:36:18Z")
Well, as long as there are doctors that need killin’… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![StrangerThanFiction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@StrangerThanFiction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrangerThanFiction)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cessna-will-buy-beechcraft/677302/3 "2013-12-28T04:01:20Z")
That’s what the SR-22 is for.