A Hawker 4000 at Manchester Airport in 2012. · Photo: Jonathan Palombo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hawker Beechcraft · Super-Midsize Jet
Hawker 4000
A stand-alone flagship: Hawker's only composite-fuselage super-midsize jet, built 2008–2013 with no predecessor or successor.
The Hawker 4000 offers coast-to-coast range, Mach 0.84 speed and one of the best cabins in its class for under $3M. The catch is an orphaned airframe: parts can be slow and costly, and resale is weak. Buy only with a strong support plan.
Buy it if
You want nonstop coast-to-coast or California-to-Hawaii trips with up to eight passengers, value a stand-up cabin and walk-in baggage, and have a Hawker 4000 specialist shop and a cash reserve for parts and downtime.
Skip it if
You need the jet to fly every trip without surprises, plan to sell within a few years, or operate from runways shorter than about 5,000 ft; a Challenger 300 costs more to buy but is far easier to own.
Biggest compromise
Support. Hawker Beechcraft cancelled the factory support plan in its 2012 bankruptcy, and Textron's maintenance plan for older Hawkers does not include the 4000.
The numbers that matter
Purchase price
$2.9M
typical asking · $2.25M–$2.9M
What it costs per year
$2.33M
at 300 hrs · two professional pilots
How far it flies
3,280 nm
3,170–3,190 nm with passengers
How fast
482 kt
high-speed cruise
Seats
8
8 typical, 9 common, up to 10
Pilots needed
2
Certified for two pilots; plan on a captain and first officer for every flight.
Price
What one costs to buy
Typical asking price
$2,900,000
Where asking prices sit
Low
$2.25M
Typical
$2.9M
High
$2.9M
Most asking prices fall inside this band.
Other sites
21.3% of the fleet
6-month move
Priced vs call
with a price / call for price
Six of 15 listings show a price, $2.25–2.9M. Aircraft Bluebook's guide values run higher, $4.2–5.2M by year, so asks sit well below guide.
Price vs its family and alternatives
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Hawker 4000 · This aircraft
$2.9M
The least expensive here; next up is the Hawker 900XP.
For sale now
None listed right now
Cost to own
What it costs per year to run
300hours / year
Per year
Per flight hour
Estimate — your operator will quote actual numbers.
Fuel, airframe maintenance, engine program, both engines and trip costs rise as you fly more. Two pilots, recurrent training, hangar, insurance and subscriptions and databases stay the same however much you fly.
Where the money goes
- Two pilots$380,00016%
- Recurrent training$45,0002%
- Hangar$70,0003%
- Insurance$36,0002%
- Subscriptions and databases$51,2502%
- Fuel$805,06835%
- Airframe maintenance$437,25019%
- Engine program, both engines$279,00012%
- Trip costs$223,20010%
Fuel is the biggest single cost at 35% of the total.
The JetGrade
65 out of 100 — Below its class average
Peer group: Bombardier Challenger 300, Gulfstream G200, Cessna Citation X (750), Embraer Legacy 500
Seven categories at a glance
- - - 70 = typical— This aircraft
Strongest on range & payload, weakest on reliability & support.
Grades are editorial opinions about the model, not any specific aircraft. Sponsors and affiliates have no input. Reviewed 2026-10-29.
Where it flies
Sample trips and reach
Typical trips on a map
Nonstop
Depends on weight or weather
6 of 8 sample trips are comfortable nonstops.
Sample flight times
- 0.8 hr
Carlsbad → Las Vegas
205 nm · Short hop at any weight
- 1.7 hr
Carlsbad → Aspen
625 nm · Hot-and-high; depends on weight and weather
- 2.0 hr
Santa Ana → San José del Cabo
765 nm · Easy nonstop with room to spare
- 2.2 hr
Teterboro → West Palm Beach
900 nm · Easy nonstop with full cabin
- 2.9 hr
Dallas → Teterboro
1,190 nm · Easy nonstop with full cabin
- 3.3 hr
Teterboro → San Juan
1,410 nm · Comfortable nonstop over water
- 4.8 hr
Carlsbad → Teterboro
2,100 nm · Carlsbad's 4,897 ft runway may limit fuel load
- 5.0 hr
Los Angeles → Honolulu
2,215 nm · Nonstop; strong headwinds shrink the margin westbound
Size and cabin
How big it is, inside and out
Outside
Silhouette · scaled to length
Length
Wingspan
Height
Inside the cabin
Photo · this model
Cabin length
Width
Height
Compare
How it stacks up
This aircraft
Hawker 4000
- JetGrade
- 65
- Price
- $2.9M
- Cost per year
- $2.33M
- Range
- 3,280 nm
- Speed
- 482 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 25′ 0″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2008–2013
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 75
- Price
- $11.87M
- Cost per year
- $2.29M
- Range
- 3,065 nm
- Speed
- 470 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 28′ 7″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2004–2014
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 71
- Price
- $11.9M–$17.5M guide
- Cost per year
- $2.36M
- Range
- 3,125 nm
- Speed
- 466 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 26′ 10″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2014–2020
Alternative
- JetGrade
- 72
- Price
- $4.63M
- Cost per year
- $1.78M
- Range
- 2,856 nm
- Speed
- 446 kt
- Seats
- 8
- Cabin length
- 21′ 4″
- Pilots
- 2
- Years built
- 2008–2012
- Bombardier Challenger 300 instead: Similar range with a wider cabin and strong factory support; it costs more to buy but is far easier to own and to sell.
- Embraer Legacy 500 instead: A newer fly-by-wire design with a 6 ft flat-floor cabin, shorter runway needs and lower fuel burn, at a much higher purchase price.
- Hawker 900XP instead: Costs more at about $4.6M but has broad Hawker 800-series support; about 2,800 nm of range in a smaller, 5 ft 9 in cabin.
Gold marks the best figure in each row.
Owning one
What to know before you buy
Engines & inspections
2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW308A · 6,904 lbf each
Engine hours until overhaul
- 600-hour airframe inspection · 600 hr
- 1,200-hour airframe inspection · 1,200 hr
- 1,800-hour airframe inspection · 1,800 hr
- 2,400-hour airframe inspection · 2,400 hr
- 3,000-hour airframe inspection · 3,000 hr
- Engine hot-section inspection · 3,000 hr
- Engine overhaul · 6,000 hr
Most listed jets have engines on a pay-per-hour plan; rates seen run about $290–640 per engine per hour. Unenrolled engines lower value.
Known issues
Limited airframe parts support
Factory airframe support ended in 2012; some parts are single-source or made to order, and owners report long waits for parts.
Costly landing gear overhaul
Early serials need a gear overhaul every 3,200 cycles, reported at $300,000 or more.
Expensive carbon brakes
Specialists say a new set of carbon brakes can cost up to $500,000.
Pre-buy checklist
0 of 9 checked
Textron Aviation still holds the type certificate and certified a data-link upgrade in 2024, but most hands-on support comes from independent Hawker 4000 specialists in Wichita. Engines and APU are backed by Pratt & Whitney Canada and Honeywell.
Review
The full review
Strengths
- About 3,190 nm with four passengers and NBAA IFR reserves (the standard fuel safety margin), enough for Los Angeles to New York.
- Flat-floor cabin 25 ft long and 6 ft tall, kept at a 6,000 ft cabin altitude even at 45,000 ft.
- Asking prices around $2.25–2.9M for a jet that cost about $20M new and cruises at up to 482 kt.
Limitations
- Orphaned since 2013: no factory airframe support plan, and some parts are made to order or available from one source.
- Burns about 321 gallons an hour, so fuel alone runs about $805,000 a year at 300 hours.
- Weak resale: about 21% of the 61 active aircraft are for sale and average asks fell about 14% in six months.
The Hawker 4000 began life as the Raytheon Hawker Horizon, announced in 1996 as a clean-sheet jet sized above the Hawker 1000. It is not a stretched Hawker 800 or a relative of the small Hawker 400. Its fuselage is a carbon-fibre composite shell, an approach Raytheon also used on the Premier I, joined to a metal swept wing built by Fuji Heavy Industries. After a long certification, customer deliveries began in June 2008 and ended in early 2013, with about 70 aircraft built. JETNET counts 61 still in operation.
Pilot's take
From the flight deck the Hawker 4000 feels like a step above earlier Hawkers. The Primus Epic panel with five large screens, dual flight management systems and full-authority autothrottles reduces workload on long legs, and the jet climbs briskly into the low forties. Crews should respect its runway needs at high weights and plan carefully on short or wet runways, where thrust-reverser and braking performance matter. The bigger operational challenge is on the ground: a missing part can keep the aircraft parked for weeks, so operators lean on specialist shops and keep spares where they can.
Who this is for
A buyer who wants super-midsize range and cabin for a midsize-jet price, flies mostly from longer runways, keeps the jet for years rather than trading it, and is willing to work with independent Hawker 4000 specialists to keep it flying.
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