**Exhibit 10.2**

**SEPARATION OF EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE**

**THIS SEPARATION OF EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE** (the “Agreement”) is made as of this 4th day of September, 2009, by and between Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (the “Company”), Hawker Beechcraft, Inc.(“HBI”), and George Nguyen (“Employee”). 

**WHEREAS**, Employee was employed by the Company as the SVP- Operations; and 

**WHEREAS,**Employee and the Company have agreed that, effective as of August 17, 2009 (the“Exit Date”), Employee will resign from his position as SVP - Operations for the Company; and 

**WHEREAS**,pursuant to certain Subscription Agreements dated as follows, entered into by and between the Employee and HBI, the Employee made the following share purchases: (i) on October 22, 2007, the Employee purchased a total of 25,000 shares ofHBI common stock for a purchase price of $10.00 per share (the “Initial Subscription Amount”), with the purchase of such shares entitling the Employee options to purchase 3.5 shares of HBI for every share purchased as part of the purchaseof the Initial Subscription Amount, and (ii) on March 28, 2008, the Employee purchased a total of 4,000 shares of HBI common stock for a purchase price of $12.50 per share (the “Additional Share Purchase”), which did not involvethe grant of any additional options to purchase HBI shares attendant upon such Additional Share Purchase (such purchased shares in the aggregate to be referred to as the “Purchased Shares”); and 

**WHEREAS**, pursuant to Section 6.1 of the Shareholders Agreement, as amended, upon the Employee’s Exit Date, HBI shall havethe right to purchase for cash all or any portion of his Purchased Shares and vested Restricted Shares, as well as any shares purchased by Employee as a result of any exercise of stock options by the Employee (the “Equity Call Option”) attheir Fair Market Value (as defined in the Shareholders Agreement) on the date of HBI’s exercise of the Equity Call Option; and 

**WHEREAS**, in connection with the Employee’s entry into the Initial Subscription Amount and the purchase of the Purchased Shares, the Employee became party to an Amended and Restated Shareholders Agreement, as amended, with HBIdated as of May 3, 2007 (the Shareholders Agreement); and 

**WHEREAS**, upon the approval of the HBI Board ofDirectors, HBI may exercise the Equity Call Option within one year of the Exit Date; and 

**WHEREAS**, in connection withthe Employee’s resignation, the parties have agreed to a separation package and the resolution of any and all disputes between them; 

**NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY AGREED** by and between Employee, the Company, and HBI as follows: 

1. Salary Continuance and Accrued Vacation: Employee will receive salary continuance payments for a period of nine (9) months and two (2) weeks, beginning on the Exit Date, atEmployee’s base pay as of August 17, 2009 subject to normal statutory withholding. The Employee shall receive any payroll amounts earned, accrued or owing but not yet paid to Employee up through

 

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and including the Exit Date, including, but not limited to any benefits accrued or earned, which will be distributed in accordance with the terms of the applicable benefit plans and programs ofthe Company. The Employee shall receive any vacation time earned and accrued or owing but not yet paid to Employee up through and including August 17, 2009, according to the Exempt Employee Vacation Policy existing as of August 17, 2009.

2. Equity Call Option: HBI may exercise the Equity Call Option by HBI within one year of the Exit Date if approved bythe HBI Board of Directors. If approved, Employee will receive notice thereof and will receive a lump sum cash payment equal to the Equity Call Purchase Price, which shall be equal to the fair market value on the date designated, in considerationfor HBI’s re-purchase of 29,000 shares of Hawker Beechcraft Inc. common stock purchased by or awarded to the Employee. Notification of such fair market value will be made in writing to the Employee within ten (10) days of suchdetermination by the Board of Directors. 

3. Management Incentive Plan (“MIP”) 2009 Bonus: You will beeligible to receive a MIP Bonus for 2009, but only to the extent your performance and the financial results for the Company for the relevant time period trigger a bonus strictly in accordance with the terms of the MIP. Payment of the bonus, if any,will be made in a lump sum amount within sixty (60) days from the date the Company determines whether the Employee is entitled to a 2009 bonus. If approved, you will be eligible to receive sixty-seven percent (67%) of a full year’sbonus, based upon your months of service in 2009 with the Company. 

4. Vested Options: As a resultof the Employee’s resignation as stated herein, and pursuant to the Nonqualified Stock Option Agreements entered into between HBI and the Employee, the following options shall vest on the Exit Date or the end of the revocation period for theRelease, whichever is later: (i) a total of 22,353.5 shares of the Employee’s October 22, 2007 Time-Vesting Options that vested on October 22, 2008; (ii) a total of 22,353.5 shares of Time-Vesting Options that vest as aresult of the exit; (iii) a total of 12,573.2 of the Employee’s Performance-Vesting Type A Options that vested as a result of achievement of the 2007 EBITDA target, (iv) a total of 12,573.2 of the Employee’s Performance-Vesting,Type A Options if the EBITDA target for the year of exit is met; (v) a total of 12,573.2 of the Employee’s Performance-Vesting, Type B Options that vested as a result of achievement of the 2007 EBITDA target; and (vi) a total of12,573.2 of the Employee’s Performance-Vesting, Type B Options, if the EBITDA Target for the year of exit is met. The Employee may exercise all or any part of the total number of vested Options, 69,853.4 in total, at any time prior to theearliest to occur of the tenth (10th) anniversary ofthe Date of Grant and 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the ninetieth (90th) day following the date of the Participant’s exit. The Employee may exercise all or any part of the Vested Portion of the 12,573.2 shares of Performance-Vesting, Type A Options and 12,573.2shares of Performance-Vesting, Type B Options at any time prior to the earliest to occur of the tenth (10th) anniversary of the Date of Grant and 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the ninetieth (90th) day following the date the Participant is notified in writingby the Company whether the Target for the year of exit has been attained, and thus, whether such options have vested. All other HBI options held by the Employee other than the Vested Options shall become null and void, and be unexercisable and of nofurther force and effect, as of the Exit Date or the end of the revocation period for the Release, whichever is later. 

5.Fringe Benefits: Employee may continue, on an active employee basis, in Company-sponsored welfare benefit plans, except for Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Company Travel Insurance, for the period of time of salarycontinuation. If Employee is not eligible to

 

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participate in an employer-sponsored medical plan at the end of this period, COBRA benefits will be made available at that time for a period not to exceed eighteen (18) months.Employee’s 401(k) deductions will cease effective with the last day worked. 

6. Reduction of Separation Benefits:The Company and HBI each reserve the right to make deductions in accordance with applicable law for any monies owed to the Company or HBI, respectively, by the Employee or the value of the Company or HBI property that the Employee has retained inhis possession. 

7. (a) Employee, for and in consideration of the commitments of the Company and HBI as set forth inparagraphs 1 through 4 of this Agreement, and intending to be legally bound, does hereby REMISE, RELEASE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE the Company and HBI, their affiliates, subsidiaries and parents, and their officers, directors, employees, and agents, andtheir respective successors and assigns, heirs, executors, and administrators (collectively, “Releasees”) from all causes of action, suits, debts, claims and demands whatsoever in law or in equity, which Employee ever had, now has, orhereafter may have, whether known or unknown, or which Employee’s heirs, executors, or administrators may have, by reason of any matter, cause or thing whatsoever, from the beginning of Employee’s employment to the Final Payroll Date, andparticularly, but without limitation of the foregoing general terms, any claims arising from or relating in any way to Employee’s employment relationship with the Company and/or HBI, the terms and conditions of that employment relationship, andthe termination of that employment relationship, including, but not limited to, any claims arising under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (“OWBPA”), Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of1964, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Rehabilitation Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), the Kansas Act AgainstDiscrimination (K.S.A. 44-1001 et seq.), the Kansas Age Discrimination in Employment Act (K.S.A. 44-1111 et seq.), the Kansas Wage Payment Act (K.S.A. 44-313 et seq.), and any other claims under any federal, state, or local common law, statutory, orregulatory provision, now or hereafter recognized including, but not limited to, breach of contract, unlawful retaliation, and defamation, and any claims for attorneys’ fees and costs. This Agreement is effective without regard to the legalnature of the claims raised and without regard to whether any such claims are based upon tort, equity, implied or express contract or discrimination of any sort. 

(b) To the fullest extent permitted by law, Employee represents and affirms that (i), Employee has not filed or caused to befiled on Employee’s behalf any claim for relief against the Company, HBI or any Releasee and, to the best of Employee’s knowledge and belief, no outstanding claims for relief have been filed or asserted against the Company, HBI or anyReleasee on Employee’s behalf; and (ii), Employee has no knowledge of any improper, unethical or illegal conduct or activities that Employee has not already reported to any supervisor, manager, department head, human resources representative,agent or other representative of the Company and/or HBI, to any member of the Company’s legal or compliance departments, or to the ethics hotline; and (iii) Employee will not file, commence, prosecute or participate in any judicial orarbitral action or proceeding against the Company, HBI or any Releasee based upon or arising out of any act, omission, transaction, occurrence, contract, claim or event existing or occurring on or before the final payroll date. 

8. In further consideration of the payments described in paragraphs 1 through 4, Employee agrees that Employee will not file, charge, claim,sue or cause or permit to be filed, charged or claimed, any civil action, suit or legal proceeding seeking equitable or monetary relief (including

 

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damages, injunctive, declaratory, monetary or other relief) for himself involving any matter released in paragraph 6. In the event that suit is filed in breach of this covenant not to sue, it isexpressly understood and agreed that this covenant shall constitute a complete defense to any such suit. In the event any Releasee is required to institute litigation to enforce the terms of this paragraph, Releasees shall be entitled to recoverreasonable costs and attorneys’ fees incurred in such enforcement. Employee further agrees and covenants that should any person, organization, or other entity file, charge, claim, sue, or cause or permit to be filed any civil action, suit orlegal proceeding involving any matter occurring at any time in the past, Employee will not seek or accept personal equitable or monetary relief in such civil action, suit or legal proceeding. 

9. (a) Confidentiality. Employee agrees that Employee shall not directly or indirectly, use, make available, sell, disclose orotherwise communicate to any person, other than in the course of the Employee’s assigned duties and for the benefit of the Company, either during the period of the Employee’s employment or at any time thereafter, any nonpublic, proprietaryor confidential information, knowledge or data relating to the Company, any of its subsidiaries, affiliated companies or businesses, which shall have been obtained by the Employee during Employee’s employment by the Company or a subsidiary.

(b) Continued Cooperation. Employee acknowledges that Company may need to consult with Employee fromtime to time on a reasonable basis after Employee’s Exit Date on matters that Employee had worked on prior to the Exit Date. Employee agrees to continue to cooperate with Company and to provide any such information as is reasonably requested byCompany. 

(c) Non-Disparagement. Employee further agrees that Employee will not disparage or subvert theCompany or HBI, or make any statement reflecting negatively on the Company, on HBI, on their affiliated corporations or entities, or on any of their officers, directors, employees, agents or representatives, including, but not limited to, anymatters relating to the operation or management of the Company and HBI, Employee’s employment and Employee’s resignation, irrespective of the truthfulness or falsity of such. 

10. Employee understands and agrees that the payments, benefits and agreements provided in this Agreement are being provided to Employee inconsideration for Employee’s acceptance and execution of, and in reliance upon Employee’s representations in, this Agreement, and that they are greater than the payments, benefits and agreements, if any, to which the Employee would havereceived if Employee had not executed this Agreement. 

11. Employee acknowledges and agrees that the Company previously hassatisfied any and all obligations owed to Employee under any employment agreement or offer letter Employee has with the Company and, further, that this Agreement fully supersedes any prior agreements or understandings, whether written or oral,between the parties. Employee acknowledges that, except as set forth expressly herein, neither the Company, HBI, the Releasees, nor their agents or attorneys have made any promise, representation or warranty whatsoever, either express or implied, orwritten or oral. 

12. Employee agrees not to disclose the terms of this Agreement to anyone, except his spouse, attorney and,as necessary, tax/financial advisor. It is expressly understood that any violation of the confidentiality obligation imposed hereunder constitutes a material breach of this Agreement. 

 

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13. Employee represents that Employee does not presently have in his possession any recordsand business documents, whether on computer or hard copy, and other materials (including but not limited to computer disks and tapes, computer programs and software, office keys, correspondence, files, customer lists, technical information, customerinformation, pricing information, business strategies and plans, sales records and all copies thereof) (collectively, the “Corporate Records”) provided by the Company and/or its predecessors, subsidiaries or affiliates or obtained as aresult of Employee’s prior employment with the Company and/or its predecessors, subsidiaries or affiliates, or created by Employee while employed by or rendering services to the Company and/or its predecessors, subsidiaries or affiliates.Employee acknowledges that all such Corporate Records are the property of the Company. 

14. Employee agrees and recognizesthat should Employee breach any of the obligations or covenants set forth in this Agreement, the Company and HBI will have no further obligation to provide Employee with the consideration set forth herein, and will have the right to seek repaymentof all consideration paid up to the time of any such breach. Further, Employee acknowledges in the event of a breach of this Agreement, Releasees may seek any and all appropriate relief for any such breach, including equitable relief and/or moneydamages, attorney’s fees and costs. 

15. Employee further agrees that the Company and HBI shall be entitled topreliminary and permanent injunctive relief, without the necessity of proving actual damages, as well as to an equitable accounting of all earnings, profits and other benefits relating to or arising out of any violations of this Agreement, whichrights shall be cumulative and in addition to any other rights or remedies to which the Company and/or HBI may be entitled. Employee irrevocably and unconditionally (i) agrees that any suit, action or other legal proceeding relating to orarising out of this Agreement, including without limitation, any action commenced by the Company or HBI for preliminary and permanent injunctive relief or other equitable relief, may be brought in Kansas, (ii) consents to the non-exclusivejurisdiction of any such court in any such suit, action or proceeding, and (iii) waives any objection which Employee may have to the laying of venue of any such suit, action or proceeding in any such court. Employee also irrevocably andunconditionally consents to the service of any process, pleadings, notices or other papers by personal service or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, or by overnight express courier service, addressed to Employee at the homeaddress which Employee most recently communicated to the Company in writing. 

16. This Agreement and the obligations of theparties hereunder shall be construed, interpreted and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Kansas. 

17.Employee certifies and acknowledges as follows: 

(a) That Employee has read the terms of this Agreement, andthat Employee understands its terms and effects, including the fact that Employee has agreed to RELEASE AND FOREVER DISCHARGE the Company and HBI and each and everyone of its affiliated entitles and Releasees listed herein from any legal actionarising out of Employee’s employment relationship with the Company and the termination of that employment relationship; 

(b) That Employee has signed this Agreement voluntarily and knowingly in exchange for the consideration described herein, which Employee acknowledges is adequate and satisfactory to Employee and whichEmployee acknowledges is in addition to any other benefits to which Employee is otherwise entitled; 

 

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(c) That Employee has been and is hereby advised in writing to consult withan attorney prior to signing this Agreement; 

(d) That Employee does not waive rights or claims that may ariseafter the date this Agreement is executed; 

(e) That the Company has provided Employee with a period oftwenty-one (21) days within which to consider this Agreement, and that Employee has signed on the date indicated below after concluding that this Agreement is satisfactory to Employee; and 

(f) Employee acknowledges that this Agreement may be revoked by Employee within seven (7) days after Employee’sexecution, and it shall not become effective until the expiration of such seventh day revocation period. Any revocation within this period must be submitted, in writing, to Company and state, “I hereby revoke my acceptance of ourAgreement.” The revocation must be personally delivered to Rich Jiwanlal, or his designee, or mailed to Rich Jiwanlal, 10511 E. Central, Wichita, KS 67206, and postmarked within seven (7) calendar days of Employee’s execution of thisAgreement. If the last day of the revocation period is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday in Kansas, then the revocation period shall not expire until the next following day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday. In the event of atimely revocation by Employee, this Agreement will be deemed null and void and the Company and HBI will have no obligations hereunder. Any and all such notices required hereunder shall be delivered to the same individual and address. 

Intending to be legally bound hereby, Employee, the Company, and HBI have executed the foregoing Separation ofEmployment Agreement and General Release this 4th day ofSeptember, 2009. 

 

**GEORGE NGUYEN**
  **HAWKER BEECHCRAFT CORPORATION**/s/ George Nguyen  By: /s/ Rich JiwanlalWitness: /s/ Thom AndersonName: Thom AndersonTitle: Director - HR
 
**HAWKER BEECHCRAFT INC.**By: /s/ S. E. AndersonName: S. E. AndersonTitle: VP, CFO and Legal
 

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