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Textron Aviation Program Grooms Its Own Pilots
August 20, 2019
It used to be that if you were a demo pilot for Cessna's single, piston-engine airplanes assigned to its Independence, Kansas plant, there wasn't an easy way to transition to the company's turboprops and jets. Instead, the Wichita-based company was hiring pilots from the outside, who already had lots of experience flying turbine aircraft, many with 1,500 hours or more...
... Recently, two pilots in at different phases in the PDP program, Chelsea Carlin and Michaela Parisi, participated in the 2019 Air Race Classic.
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