Hawker

The Hawker jets were built under five different owners before the line closed in 2012, and four of them are still chartered by Private Jet Royalty.

The Hawker name arrived late in its own story. The aeroplane started as the de Havilland DH.125, first flown in 1962, and passed through Hawker Siddeley, then British Aerospace, then Raytheon, which adopted the Hawker name in 1993. Raytheon merged the jet division with Beechcraft in 1994 to form Hawker Beechcraft. The group failed in 2012 and the jet line was shut the following year; Beechcraft alone was bought by Textron in 2014. Five owners, one continuous design lineage, and a name that belonged to the aeroplane for less than half of its production life.

All four Hawkers in this fleet are Midsize Jets, and they are close to identical in the places cabins normally differ: the same seat count in each, and cabins within a few inches of one another in length and height. Range is where they separate: 2,100 nautical miles at one end of the four, 2,818 at the other. The brand therefore offers one cabin at four distances, which is a more legible choice than four aircraft usually present. Nothing has been built since 2012. The aircraft fly on, and the decision to make is which sector length to buy, not which cabin.