Leica Geosystems Awarded Sales Contract from Cessna Aircraft Company

Wixom, MI – December 11, 2006 – Leica Geosystems, a Hexagon Company, announced today Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron (NYSE: TXT) company, has signed a sales contract for eight portable Leica CMM systems used for industrial measurement and inspection.

The acquisition consists of four Leica LTD840 Laser Trackers, and four Leica LTD640 Laser Trackers. Cessna (Wichita, KS) is the world's largest manufacturer of general aviation airplanes. Leica Geosystems' 3D coordinate measurement systems are used by manufacturers worldwide in the aerospace, automotive and shipbuilding industries.

Cessna will add mobile, large-volume measurement capabilities to its production floor with the implementation of the Laser Trackers. Cessna manufactures a broad array of aircraft, from its world-renowned business jets, to freight-hauling and passenger-hauling utility Caravans, to personal and small business single engine airplanes.

Leica Geosystems Laser Trackers will provide an overall quality solution for dimensional verification applications across Cessna's product lines. "We are very pleased our laser tracking systems have been selected by Cessna for its multi-faceted quality assurance operations in North America," states Paul Evans, Marketing Manager for Leica Geosystems North America. "Our portable CMMs set the industry standard for precision data acquisition, and offer expandability for future metrology requirements in terms of wireless probing and high speed scanning. Delivering real-time quality assurance to aerospace shop floors around the world is our forte."

Leica Geosystems Laser Tracking systems are used extensively for the construction of aerospace tools, precision alignment of large assemblies, the inspection of airplane production parts, part-mating operations, and more. The versatile LTD840 Laser Tracker can be used to measure a full aircraft, or inspect a specific component of a large assembly. The LTD840 Laser Tracker system can be upgraded with the unique T-Probe, an armless and wireless probe providing touch-and-inspect capability with six degrees of freedom. The laser tracker is also fully compatible with the T-Scan, a handheld high-speed hand scanner used to capture complex surfaces and contours of an aircraft or automobile.

The LTD840 Laser Tracker delivers an ultra-fast measurement cycle for high-point density (3,000 points/second) and a measurement range reaching a full 40m (131ft) when used with a corner cube reflector.

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