Hawker Beechcraft has emerged from bankruptcy today with a fiscal battle plan blessed by the Air Force, which will soon decide whether to award the company a contract to provide 20 light attack aircraft to the Afghan military. Hawker is competing against a team composed of Sierra Nevada Corp. and Brazil's Embraer for the $355 million Light Air Support (LAS) contract. Bill Boisture, Hawker's chief executive officer, told Inside the Air Force on Feb. 15 that the company had...
