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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