Press Release

Issued by Beechcraft Textron Aviation.

October 30, 2012

Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support (GCS) today announced it has teamed with Astronics Corporation, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Luminescent Systems Inc., to provide new light emitting diode (LED) landing and taxi lights for the Beechcraft King Air family. Astronics' LED lighting solution replaces the aircraft's existing filament-based lighting system with a high reliability, 10,000 hour average life solution, dramatically reducing maintenance costs and power consumption while providing wide beam, taxi and deeper downfield illumination in the airport environment.

"Customer interest in LED lighting for the King Air family has been robust and we're excited to work with Astronics to bring this capability to the market," said Christi Tannahill, Hawker Beechcraft senior vice president, Global Customer Support. "These new lights will provide our owners and operators with a best-in-class landing and taxi lighting solution."

Hawker Beechcraft will offer these lights in retrofit kits for existing aircraft through its Hawker Beechcraft Parts & Distribution organization.