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Aircraft and industry. Sale of Hawker Beechcraft operations to Superior Aviation Beijing failed

Wichita, USA - The American firm will try to avoid bankruptcy as a stand-alone company

On Thursday 18 October 2012 Hawker Beechcraft announced that the talks for the purchase of the American company, which is one of the world leader of the general aviation sector, by the Chinese group sale of its operations to Chinese-based Superior Aviation Beijing Co for 1.79 billion dollars failed. The Wichita-based firm will try to emerge from Chapter 11, a part of the United States' Bankruptcy...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1146532
Rome, Italy, 10/18/2012 18:16
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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