Cessna Names Heasley General Manager at Greensboro Service Center

WICHITA, Kan., July 7, 2010 – Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today announced it has named Jim Heasley as general manager of the company's Citation Service Center in Greensboro, N.C. Heasley will report to Stan Younger, Cessna vice president, Service Facilities.

Heasley, formerly the maintenance manager at Greensboro, is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and holds an airframe & powerplant license. A native of New York, Heasley has 20 years experience in aerospace, 13 of those at Cessna.

The Greensboro Citation Service Center is one of the busiest in the Cessna network and handled 2,200 service orders in 2009. The Greensboro center opened in 1994 and completed an expansion in 2008.

Cessna also announced it is adding a new mobile service unit to its growing fleet, this one to be based in Texas. This will bring to seven the number of MSUs in operation in the U.S., with eight more planned in the near future, including the company's first MSUs in Europe and Canada.