Beechcraft made in China

Carolyn Peters wrote:
On 7/13/2012 3:34 PM, wrote:
Carolyn Peters wrote:
Airbus builds aircraft in China and will soon do so in the US. Has
certification been an impediment?

Not so far, but you missed the point and Airbus isn't a Chinese company.


The point is manufacturing aircraft in China.

No, the point was a rebuttal to "...there won't be anything American
about Beech except the name..".

You claimed, "Given the way aircraft are certified, that isn't very
likely unless they recertify all the existing aircraft, which would be
very stupid and the Chinese are not stupid."

Please elaborate what certification standards you are talking about and
why producing Beechcraft/Hawkers by a Chinese company in America would
be different than producing Beechcraft/Hawkers by a Chinese company in
China.

OK, I'll elaborate a bit.

Unless the Chinese start building all the bits and pieces that make up
the existing airplanes and get those bits and pieces FAA approved, and
get the aircraft paperwork amended to use all those Chinese bits and
pieces, existing aircraft are going to be pretty much exactly the same
as they are now.

Also, while parts of the manufacturing may go to China, not all of it
is going to China according to the news.

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news...0 6946-1.html

They will still be "American" airplanes build by a company with corporate
headquarters in China.

Since the bit and pieces market is a low volume niche market, and the Chinese
generally don't have much interest in low volume niche markets, it is
unlikely that new designs will use anything other than the suppliers
used now, which are largely American.

Also, while parts of the manufacturing may go to China, not all of it
is going to China according to the news.

You also failed to read or didn't understand my last sentence, so I'll
repeat it.

Beech is no more going to be "Chinese" than Budweiser, Michelob, and
Corona Extra have become Belgian-Brazilian.