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Hawker Beechcraft names new CEO

By Janice Wood · March 24, 2009 ·

Bill Boisture-CEO Hawker Beechcraft Hawker Beechcraft Corp. has named W.W. (Bill) Boisture Jr. its new chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

The former president of NetJets and Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. brings more than 30 years of aviation experience to HBC.

Boisture was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force and graduated from the USAF Fighter Weapons School and the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School. He was honorably discharged as a major after 11 years of service. Boisture also has a commercial instrument rating and continues to be an active pilot, logging more than 500 hours in the past two years.

Boisture earned his bachelor’s in engineering management from the U.S. Air Force Academy and his master’s in business administration from the University of New Haven.

He succeeds Jim Schuster, who announced his retirement in November.

For more information: HawkerBeechcraft.com.

About Janice Wood

Janice Wood is editor of General Aviation News.

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