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Textron Inc. is a multi-industry company that leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, Pipistrel, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, and Textron Systems. For more information, visit: www.textron.com.

We inspire the journey of flight. For more than 90 years, Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has empowered our collective talent across the Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker brands to design and deliver the best aviation experience for our customers. With a range that includes everything from business jets, turboprops, and high-performance pistons, to special mission, military trainer and defense products, Textron Aviation has the most versatile and comprehensive aviation product portfolio in the world and a workforce that has produced more than half of all general aviation aircraft worldwide. Customers in more than 170 countries rely on our legendary performance, reliability and versatility, along with our trusted global customer service network, for affordable, productive and flexible flight.

Cirrus is the global leader in Personal Aviation™. Founded in 1984, Cirrus is best known for redefining Personal Aviation™ through category-leading innovation and safety, including: - Designing and producing the industry’s best-selling piston aircraft, the SR Series - Introducing the world’s first single-engine Personal Jet™, the Vision Jet - Becoming the first manufacturer to incorporate Safe Return™ Emergency Autoland into a single-engine piston aircraft with the SR Series G7+ - Earning the Robert J. Collier Trophy, widely regarded as the greatest achievement in American aeronautics - Pioneering the first FAA-certified whole-airframe parachute safety system to be included as standard equipment on an aircraft, the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®) The company has seven locations in the United States. - Duluth, Minnesota - Grand Forks, North Dakota - Knoxville, Tennessee - McKinney, Texas - Orlando, Florida - Scottsdale, Arizona - Benton Harbor, Michigan