Summary British Aerospace's Hawker 800 series jets, with variants like the Hawker 750 and 800XP, were popular. However, production of the Hawker Jets has ceased since 2013, and many are still flying today. While BAE Systems now focuses on military innovations, its private jet division with Textron Aviation provides ongoing global service support, and the legacy should live on with Citations.
Today, when most people think about British Aerospace (or BAE Systems as it is called post-merger), they think about their Harrier II—the second iteration of Hawker Siddley's Harrier for military aircraft or the BAe 146 for civilian jet—but little do most people know that British Aerospace also made a private jet. The Hawker jet British success story British Aerospace had a corporate jet division and two sides of the business - one made dedicated private aircraft, and the other did corporate airliners. The British Aerospace 125 was a mid-size twinjet business jet developed by de Havilland and dubbed the "DH.
125 Jet Dragon". It then entered production under the name Hawker Siddeley until 1977, after which its variants were marketed as the Hawker 800. Much like today's corporate jet market, North America has the most customers.
Over 60% of the aircraft's total sales were in this region. In Europe, it was mainly utilized as a navigation trainer and had the internal name "Dominie T1", while the United States Air Force had the designation C-29. In 1993, British Aerospace's private jet divi.