Bell and Cessna See Continued Demand for New Aircraft Orders

(Providence, RI., March 18, 2008) -- Demand for Textron Inc.'s (NYSE: TXT) aircraft products continues apace, as Bell Helicopter and Cessna Aircraft Company experience solid order intake to- date for new aircraft this year.

Textron previously announced strong results from the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition Forum in Hong Kong, the Singapore Airshow and Heli-Expo in Houston with 84 purchase orders for helicopters and 22 jet orders.

"Results from these three February shows are indicative of the general strength we continue to see in global aircraft markets," said Lewis B. Campbell, Textron chairman, president and CEO.

Speaking at today's JP Morgan Aviation and Transportation Conference in New York City, Jack Pelton, Cessna chairman, president and CEO remarked, "The order environment for business jets continues to be robust. Based on strong order activity to-date, we are expecting a very strong new order book in the first quarter and remain confident that we will record over 570 business jet orders this year."

Dick Millman, president and CEO of Bell Helicopter recently stated, "Bell continues to see strong world-wide demand across our product line and we believe this demand will create another robust sales year for us."

Source : Textron Inc.

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