{"id":21585,"date":"2022-04-04T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=21585"},"modified":"2022-04-04T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T16:14:00","slug":"textron-begins-delivering-skyhawks-to-growing-flight-training-school-at-kansas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/kansas\/textron-begins-delivering-skyhawks-to-growing-flight-training-school-at-kansas-state\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Textron Begins Delivering Skyhawks to Growing Flight Training School at Kansas State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Textron Aviation is celebrating the delivery of five new\nCessna Skyhawk piston aircraft to the Kansas State University Salina Aerospace\nand Technology Campus, expanding the school\u2019s fleet and supporting the\nuniversity\u2019s growing enrollment in its pilot training programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/423339-KSU-Skyhawk-Key-Exchange-4dd4ba-original-1648757878-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21586\" width=\"315\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/423339-KSU-Skyhawk-Key-Exchange-4dd4ba-original-1648757878-edit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/423339-KSU-Skyhawk-Key-Exchange-4dd4ba-original-1648757878-edit-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><figcaption><em>Key exchange &#8211; Clint Strong, head of the Aviation Department for Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus with Allison Varriano, senior manager of Sales and Business Development for McCauley. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cessna Skyhawk is designed and manufactured by Textron\nAviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five aircraft are part of a 10-aircraft order, which was\nannounced in October 2021, and the order expands the school\u2019s fleet of Skyhawk\naircraft to 22. The Skyhawks were delivered today from the company\u2019s\nmanufacturing campus in Independence, Kansas, where all Cessna piston products\nare assembled and completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTextron Aviation is committed to providing support to the\ntraining and development of the next generation of pilots, and the Cessna\nSkyhawk is an excellent choice to fulfill that mission,\u201d said Chris Crow, vice\npresident, Piston Sales, Textron Aviation. \u201cThis delivery also gives us a great\nopportunity to celebrate another milestone achievement in our long-standing\nrelationship with Kansas State University.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deliveries of the remaining five custom-exterior Skyhawks \u2013\neach equipped with the latest Garmin G1000 NXi avionics system \u2013 will be\ncompleted later this spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Textron Aviation has a long-term relationship with the\nK-State Aerospace and Technology Campus, located in Salina, Kansas, that began\nwith the program\u2019s inception in 1987. K-State was also one of the first\nuniversities to participate in Textron Aviation\u2019s Top Hawk program, which\nprovides selected schools with the opportunity to fly a custom-branded Skyhawk\nfor flight training and promotional activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textron Aviation is celebrating the delivery of five new Cessna Skyhawk piston aircraft to the Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus, expanding the school\u2019s fleet and supporting the university\u2019s growing enrollment in its pilot training programs. The Cessna Skyhawk is designed and manufactured by Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-kansas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-skyhawk-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21588,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585\/revisions\/21588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}