The company can trace its lineage back over 90 years in Wichita, Kansas, when Clyde Cessna first set up the Cessna Aircraft Company and Walter Beech started the Beech Aircraft Corporation. Textron Aviation, however, was born in March 2014, following Textron Inc's acquisition of Beech Holdings, which included Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft brands. The move allowed the brands to be brought under the same umbrella as Textron Aviation (Cessna has been a Textron company since 1992), giving it a dominant position in the general aviation market.