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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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        <p ALIGN="RIGHT">Registration No. 333&#45;_____</font></b></td>
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        </font><font SIZE="4">UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">FORM S&#45;8</font></b></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">under</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">TEXTRON INC</font></b></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)<br>
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        <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">05&#45;0315468</b></td>
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        <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">(State or Other Jurisdiction of
        &#160;&#160;&#160;(I.R.S. Employer</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">(I.R.S. Employer.</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Incorporation or Organization)</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Identification No.)</font></td>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;</p>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Providence, Rhode Island 02903</font></b></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">TEXTRON 1999 LONG&#45;TERM INCENTIVE PLAN</font></b></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">(Full Title of the Plan)</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Michael D. Cahn</td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">40 Westminster Street</td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Providence, Rhode Island 02903</td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">(Name and Address of Agent for Service)</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">401&#45;421&#45;2800</b></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Title of Securities to be Registered</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Amount to be Registered</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price</p>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">Amount of Registration Fee</font></td>
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        <p>Common Stock $.125 par value</p>
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        <p>2,500,000 shares</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">$30.77</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">$76,925,000</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">$6223.24</font></td>
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<p>(1) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(c) solely for the purpose of
calculating the reg&#45; istration fee, on the basis of the average of the
high and low prices per share of the Registrant&#39;s Common Stock on the
New York Stock Exchange Composite Tape on May 5, 2003.</p>
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<p>This registration statement relates to 2,500,000 shares of Textron Common
Stock, $.125 par value (&quot;Shares&quot;) issuable under the Textron 1999
Long&#45;Term Incentive Plan, which are in addition to the 5,000,000 Shares
registered on Registration Statement on Form S&#45;8 (No.
333&#45;101180) and 8,500,000 Shares registered on Registration Statement on
Form S&#45;8 (No. 333&#45;78145), the contents of which are incorporated
by reference herein.</p>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">PART II</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER">INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE</font></td>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;</p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Incorporation of Documents by Reference</td>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;<font SIZE="2">&#160;</font>The following documents are incorporated by
reference in this registration statement:&nbsp;</p>
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      <p>(a)</td>
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      <p>Textron&#39;s Annual Report on Form 10&#45;K for the fiscal
      year ended</td>
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      <p>December 28, 2002.<br>
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      <p>(b)</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or
      15(d) of the Securities</td>
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      <p>Exchange Act of 1934 since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
      registrant document</td>
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      <p>referred to in (a) above.<br>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">(c)</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The descriptions of Textron&#39;s Common Stock and
      the associated</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Preferred Stock Purchase Rights which are contained in
      registration statements filed</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including
      any amendments or reports filed for</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">the purpose of updating such descriptions.<br>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&#160;All documents subsequently filed by Textron and the Plan pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the filing of a post&#45;effective amendment which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities
remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to
be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.</p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Descriptions of Securities</td>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;&#160;Inapplicable.&nbsp;</p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Interests of Named Experts and Counsel</td>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;<font SIZE="2">&#160;</font>The validity of the securities has been passed upon by
Michael D. Cahn, Senior Associate General Counsel&#45;Securities and
Assistant Secretary for the Company. Mr. Cahn is a full time employee of Textron
Inc. and owns and holds options to purchase, shares of Textron Common Stock.&nbsp;</p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Indemnification of Directors and Officers</td>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&#160;As authorized by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law, each director and officer of Textron may be indemnified by Textron against
expenses (including attorney&#39;s fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid
in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense
or settlement of any threatened, pending or completed legal proceedings in which
he or she is involved by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director
or officer of Textron if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner that he
or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
Textron and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if he or she had
no reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful. If the
legal proceeding, however, is by or in the right of Textron, the director or
officer may not be indemnified in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to
which he or she shall have been adjudged to be liable to Textron unless and to
the extent that a court determines otherwise.</p>
<p>&#160;Textron&#39;s by&#45;laws require Textron to indemnify each
officer and director to the fullest extent permitted by law. In addition,
Textron maintains directors&#39; and officers&#39; liability policies.</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;&#160;Article Sixth of Textron&#39;s restated certificate of
incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, directors
of Textron will not be liable for monetary damages to Textron or its
stockholders for breaches of their fiduciary duties.</p>
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      <p>Exemption from Registration Claimed</td>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&#160;Inapplicable.&nbsp;</p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Exhibits</td>
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      <p>Opinion and Consent of Michael D. Cahn, Senior Associate General
      Counsel&#45;Securities and Assistant Secretary of Textron.</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">24</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Power of Attorney.
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      <p>Undertakings</td>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;&#160;The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:&nbsp;</p>
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      <p>To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
      post&#45;</td>
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      <p>effective amendment to this registration statement:</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">(i)</td>
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      <p>To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the
      Securities Act of 1933;</td>
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      <p></p>
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      <p></p>
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      <p></p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">(ii)</td>
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      <p>To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
      effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
      post&#45;effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
      aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set for in
      the registration statement;</td>
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      <p></p>
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      <p></p>
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      <p></p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">(iii)</td>
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      <p>To include any material information with respect to the plan of
      distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
      material change to such information in the registration statement;</td>
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<p>Provided, however, </i>that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if the
registration statement is on Form S&#45;3 or Form S&#45;8, and the
information required to be included in a post&#45;effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.&nbsp;</p>
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      <p>That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
      Act of</td>
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      <p>1933 each such post&#45;effective amendment shall be deemed to be a
      new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein and
      the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
      initial bona fide offering thereof.<br>
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      <p>(3)</td>
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      <p>To remove from registration by means of a post&#45;effective
      amendment any of</td>
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      <p>the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination
      of the offering.</td>
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<p>The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each
filing of the registrant&#39;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable,
each filing of an employee benefit plan&#39;s annual report pursuant to
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;&#160;&#160;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under
the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or
otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities
and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim
for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&#160;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S&#45;8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, on this 9<sup>th</sup>
day of May, 2003.</p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">TEXTRON INC.</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Registrant)</td>
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    <td WIDTH="39%" VALIGN="TOP">&nbsp;</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Name</td>
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      Michael D. Cahn
    </td>
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  <tr>
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    <td WIDTH="9%" VALIGN="TOP">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Title:</td>
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      <p>Senior Associate General Counsel&#45;Securities<br>
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<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;&#160;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below on the 9th day of May, 2003, by the
following persons in the capacities indicated.</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;</p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">John D. Macomber</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Director</font></td>
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    <td WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="33%" VALIGN="TOP">&nbsp;</td>
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  <tr>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&#160;&#160;&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp;
      *&#160;&#160;&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></u></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Director</font></td>
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    <td WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Brian H. Rowe</font></td>
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    <td VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3">&nbsp;</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Director</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Sam F. Segnar</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&#160;&#160;&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&#160;&#160;&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></u></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Director</font></td>
  </tr>
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    <td WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Martin D. Walker</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="33%" VALIGN="TOP">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
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    <td WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><u><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&#160;&#160;&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></u></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Director</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Thomas B. Wheeler</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="33%" VALIGN="TOP">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3">&nbsp;</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&#160;&#160;&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&#160;&#160;&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></u></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Executive Vice President and</font></td>
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    <td WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Ted R. French</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="33%" VALIGN="TOP"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Chief Financial Officer</font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
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    <td WIDTH="33%" VALIGN="TOP"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">(principal financial officer)</font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
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    <td WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><u><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&#160;&#160;&#160;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></u></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Vice President and Controller</font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="67%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Richard L. Yates</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">(principal accounting officer)
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  </tr>
  <tr>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">*By:</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">s/Michael D. Cahn</font></u></td>
  </tr>
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    <td WIDTH="87%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Michael D. Cahn</font></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td WIDTH="13%" VALIGN="TOP">&nbsp;</td>
    <td WIDTH="87%" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="2"><font SIZE="3">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Attorney&#45;in&#45;fact</font></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;</p>
<p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">&nbsp;</p>
<font SIZE="4">
<p ALIGN="CENTER">EXHIBIT INDEX</p>
</font>
<p ALIGN="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Exhibit No</u>.</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Description</u></td>
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    <td WIDTH="18%" VALIGN="TOP">
      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">5</td>
    <td WIDTH="82%" VALIGN="TOP">
      <p>Opinion and Consent of Michael D. Cahn, Senior Associate General
      Counsel&#45;Securities and Assistant Secretary of Textron.</td>
  </tr>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">23</td>
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      <p>Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.</td>
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      <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">24&#160;</td>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 9
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
        on May 9, 2003
Registration No. 333-_____
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
______________
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
TEXTRON INC
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
05-0315468
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
           (I.R.S. Employer
(I.R.S. Employer.
Incorporation or Organization)
Identification No.)
40 Westminster Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
TEXTRON 1999 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
Michael D. Cahn
Senior Associate General Counsel - Securities
Textron Inc.
40 Westminster Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
401-421-2800
(Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for
        Service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities to be Registered
Amount to be Registered
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share
Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price
Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock $.125 par value
2,500,000 shares
$30.77
$76,925,000
$6223.24
(1) Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(c) solely for the purpose of
calculating the reg- istration fee, on the basis of the average of the
high and low prices per share of the Registrant's Common Stock on the
New York Stock Exchange Composite Tape on May 5, 2003.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This registration statement relates to 2,500,000 shares of Textron Common
Stock, $.125 par value ("Shares") issuable under the Textron 1999
Long-Term Incentive Plan, which are in addition to the 5,000,000 Shares
registered on Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No.
333-101180) and 8,500,000 Shares registered on Registration Statement on
Form S-8 (No. 333-78145), the contents of which are incorporated
by reference herein.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference
The following documents are incorporated by
reference in this registration statement:
(a)
Textron's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
      year ended
December 28, 2002.
(b)
All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or
      15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
      registrant document
referred to in (a) above.
(c)
The descriptions of Textron's Common Stock and
      the associated
Preferred Stock Purchase Rights which are contained in
      registration statements filed
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including
      any amendments or reports filed for
the purpose of updating such descriptions.
All documents subsequently filed by Textron and the Plan pursuant
to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that
all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities
remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to
be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.
Item 4.
Descriptions of Securities
Inapplicable.
Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel
The validity of the securities has been passed upon by
Michael D. Cahn, Senior Associate General Counsel-Securities and
Assistant Secretary for the Company. Mr. Cahn is a full time employee of Textron
Inc. and owns and holds options to purchase, shares of Textron Common Stock.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
As authorized by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law, each director and officer of Textron may be indemnified by Textron against
expenses (including attorney's fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid
in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred in connection with the defense
or settlement of any threatened, pending or completed legal proceedings in which
he or she is involved by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director
or officer of Textron if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner that he
or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
Textron and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if he or she had
no reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful. If the
legal proceeding, however, is by or in the right of Textron, the director or
officer may not be indemnified in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to
which he or she shall have been adjudged to be liable to Textron unless and to
the extent that a court determines otherwise.
Textron's by-laws require Textron to indemnify each
officer and director to the fullest extent permitted by law. In addition,
Textron maintains directors' and officers' liability policies.
Article Sixth of Textron's restated certificate of
incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, directors
of Textron will not be liable for monetary damages to Textron or its
stockholders for breaches of their fiduciary duties.
Item 7.
Exemption from Registration Claimed
Inapplicable.
Item 8.
Exhibits
5
Opinion and Consent of Michael D. Cahn, Senior Associate General
      Counsel-Securities and Assistant Secretary of Textron.
23
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
24
Power of Attorney.
Item 9.
Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
      post-
effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i)
To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the
      Securities Act of 1933;
(ii)
To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
      effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent
      post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
      aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set for in
      the registration statement;
(iii)
To include any material information with respect to the plan of
      distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any
      material change to such information in the registration statement;
Provided, however,
that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if the
registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by
those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the registrant
pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2)
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities
      Act of
1933 each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a
      new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein and
      the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
      initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3)
To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
      amendment any of
the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination
      of the offering.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each
filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable,
each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under
the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or
otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities
and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim
for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, on this 9
th
day of May, 2003.
TEXTRON INC.
(Registrant)
By:
s/Michael D. Cahn
Name
Michael D. Cahn
Title:
Senior Associate General Counsel-Securities
and Assistant Secretary
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below on the 9th day of May, 2003, by the
following persons in the capacities indicated.
NAME
TITLE
*
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Lewis B. Campbell
Director
*
Director
H. Jesse Arnelle
*
Director
Teresa Beck
*
Director
R. Stuart Dickson
*
Director
Lawrence K. Fish
*
Director
Joe T. Ford
*
Director
Paul E. Gagné
*
Director
John D. Macomber
*
Director
Lord Powell of Bayswater KCMG
*
Director
Brian H. Rowe
*
Director
Sam F. Segnar
*
Director
Martin D. Walker
*
Director
Thomas B. Wheeler
*
Executive Vice President and
Ted R. French
Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial officer)
*
Vice President and Controller
Richard L. Yates
(principal accounting officer)
*By:
s/Michael D. Cahn
Michael D. Cahn
Attorney-in-fact
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No
.
Description
5
Opinion and Consent of Michael D. Cahn, Senior Associate General
      Counsel-Securities and Assistant Secretary of Textron.
23
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
24
Power of Attorney.