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Honeywell’s last test aircraft leaves Paine Field

Published 1:30 am Monday, September 19, 2016

By Dan Catchpole

Honeywell’s last test aircraft leaves Paine Field
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Honeywell’s last test aircraft leaves Paine Field
Honeywell’s Convair 580 test plane taxis for takeoff earlier this year at Paine Field. The company’s flight test operation has moved to Phoenix. (Dan Catchpole / The Herald)

EVERETT — The last Honeywell test aircraft, a Convair 580, left Paine Field mid-morning Monday for its new home in Phoenix.

The company announced plans earlier this year to move its flight test operations to Arizona. Along with the Convair, it operates a helicopter and two other airplanes — a Sabreliner 65 and a King Air C90. The aircraft test a wide variety of Honeywell’s aerospace products.

The flight test center’s small staff of 15 relocated to Arizona, according to Scott Sayres, a Honeywell spokesman.

Honeywell, which is based in Morris Plains, New Jersey, still has a major avionics operation in Redmond and several non-aerospace operations around Washington. In 2012, it bought Intermec, which makes scanning and data capture machines in Mountlake Terrace.

Dan Catchpole: 425-339-3454; dcatchpole@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @dcatchpole.

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