Press Release

Issued by Beechcraft Textron Aviation.

November 18, 2013

Beechcraft Corporation today announced at the 2013 Dubai Airshow the appointment of South Africa-based Absolute Aviation as an authorized parts distributor for sub-Saharan Africa.

Absolute Aviation, which has acted as Beechcraft's exclusive distributor for sub-Saharan Africa since 2011, will have $1 million of inventory in stock at Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, to support the entire Beechcraft product line as well as the Hawker 125-series.

“We are delighted to be expanding on our existing relationship with Absolute Aviation,” said Christi Tannahill, Beechcraft senior vice president, Global Customer Support (GCS). “We appointed Absolute Aviation as a parts distributor because they have built up an excellent reputation in sub-Saharan Africa as our aircraft representative and we feel that by stocking a full range of parts in South Africa, it will increase the level of support we can provide to our customers in the region.”

Beechcraft is displaying a King Air 350ER, King Air 350i, King Air C90GTx and its AT-6 light attack aircraft at chalet C7 at the Dubai Airshow event this week at Dubai World Central.