Textron Aviation still hampered by engine, parts shortages

Textron Aviation is working to overcome a handful of lingering ‘key supply issues’.
Shortages of aircraft engines and metallic parts continue to limit Textron Aviation’s production, though the company expects steps it has taken will start easing the crunch next year.

“When we look at parts availability on the factory floor, we are back to where we were in about the 2021 timeframe,” Textron chief executive Lisa Atherton said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on 29 October. “We are not where we were in 2019.”

The company’s Textron Aviation division delivered 128 Cessna Citation jets in the first three quarters of 2026, up from 122 in the same period last year.

It delivered another 111 turboprop aircraft (including Cessna Caravans and SkyCouriers and Beechcraft King Airs) in the first three quarters, up from 103 in the 2025 period.

Textron Aviation turned a $179 million third-quarter profit, up 4% year on year. Its third-quarter revenue jumped 14% year on year to $1.7 billion, reflecting more aircraft delivered and a bump in aftermarket sales.

Atherton says production has been constrained by a few “key supply issues”, citing availability of engines, extrusions, spars and ground-power units.

“We are putting a focused target on those four, in order to make sure we can get them in and get the aircraft out the door,” Atherton says.

Textron Aviation has invested to expand its fabrication capabilities, including by “adding capacity in areas like machining, sheet metal and landing gear”, while also bringing increased automation to its wing-production system.

“Those investments in fabrication are focused on increasing capacity to improve parts availability on our production lines,” Atherton says. “As we are making all of those efforts across the various supply chain insourcing, we should start to see progress with that … in 2027.”

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