Cessna, now a brand of Textron Aviation, is an American aerospace manufacturer primarily known for general aviation aircraft. While Cessna is best known for small, piston-powered aircraft and business jets like the Citation family, their aircraft, particularly the Cessna Caravan, are being explored for applications in cargo, aerial refueling, and as a platform for developing electric, hybrid-electric, and hydrogen propulsion systems. Cessna partners with companies like ZeroAvia and Reliable Robotics, and also has relationships with the U.S. Air Force.
Identity changes, mergers, acquisitions, splits, and transferred business lines.
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General Dynamics, which had acquired Cessna Aircraft Company in 1985, sold Cessna to Textron Inc. in early 1992 for $605 million, as part of General Dynamics' broader early-1990s divestiture of non-core businesses.