Textron Aviation, an amalgamation of Hawker, Beechcraft and Cessna.
I'd be more worried about Hawker than anything else, for they compete with the Cessna Citation lineup.
As to the rest- meh. Beech's Baron and King Air really aren't in competition with anything Cessna makes. The Caravan is mostly a trash-hauler. Cessna hasn't made a piston twin for 30 or so years.
The closest competitor to the Bonanza is the Cessna
Columbia 400 TTx. The Bonanza has more seats and that oh-so-sexy retractable gear. Bonanzas can handle grass strips, just not terribly short ones. I don't know if the TTx can do that as well. On the other hand, the TTx is a descendant of the Lancair family from the early 1980s, while the Bonanza is a maturation of an airplane that was designed back in 1945.
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I'm so old I can remember Bonanzas selling for < $30k... friend of my dad had one and it was a joy to go off on weekends for fly-ins... and they were quiet enough you could actually talk... even on grass 2,000 ft. was enough
Bonanza. Want. Or Beech T-34.
Lovely airplane, the T-34, especially if you have one of the up-engined mods.
I was in two AF Aero Clubs that had them, and had to quit both because they were pencil-whipping maintenance. Heartbreaking.
V-tail Bonanza, better known as Doctor and lawyer killers... But fun to fly!
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