BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
 One Bankers Trust Plaza
New York, New York 10006
Clarke S. Edgar Mailing Address:
Vice President P.O. Box 318
Telephone: 212-250-9399 Church Street Station
New York, NY 10008
February 14, 1995
Securities and Exchange Commission
 SEC Document Control
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20549
 Attn: Filing Desk
Dear Sirs:
Re: Filing of Schedule 13G on
Textron Inc.
Pursuant to Rule 13d-1 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the following is one copy of the Schedule 13G with respect to the common stock of the above referenced corporation.
Please acknowledge your receipt of the Schedule 13G filing submission through the EDGAR-Link System software, by E-Mail confirmation.
Sincerely,

/s/Clarke S. Edgar	

Enclosures

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 Washington, D.C. 20549
SCHEDULE 13G
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(Amendment No. 6 )*

Textron Inc.
 NAME OF ISSUER:
 Common Stock (Par Value $0.1225)
 TITLE OF CLASS OF SECURITIES
 883203101
     _______________________________________
                  CUSIP NUMBER

Check the following box if a fee is being paid with
this statement [ ].  (A fee is not required only if
the filing person: (1) has a previous statement on
file reporting beneficial ownership of more than five
percent of the class of securities described in Item
1; and (2) has filed no amendment subsequent thereto
reporting beneficial ownership of five percent or less
of such class.) (See Rule 13d-7.)

*The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out
for a reporting person's initial filing on this form
with respect to the subject class of securities, and
for any subsequent amendment containing information
which would alter the disclosures provided in a prior
cover page.

The information required in the remainder of this
cover page shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the
purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the
liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be
subject to all other provisions of the Act (however,
see the Notes).

        (Continued on following page(s))

                Page 1 of 6 Pages	

CUSIP No. 883203101                     Page 2 of 6 Pages

1.NAME OF REPORTING PERSON
  S.S. OR I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NO. OF ABOVE PERSON

  Bankers Trust New York Corporation and its wholly-owned
  subsidiary, Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee for various
  trusts, and employee benefit plans, and investment advisor,
  and its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Bankers Trust
  International PLC 13-6180473

2.CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP *
          (A)  [ ]
          (B)  [X]

3.SEC USE ONLY

4.CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION

  Both Bankers Trust New York Corporation and Bankers Trust
  Company are New York Corporations; Bankers Trust International
  PLC is a London corporation

 NUMBER OF     5. SOLE VOTING POWER

  SHARES            769,453

BENEFICIALLY   6. SHARED VOTING POWER

 OWNED BY           6,500

  EACH         7. SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER

REPORTING           1,362,724

 PERSON        8. SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER

  WITH              6,500

9.AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH REPORTING PERSON

                    1,369,224

10.CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW(9) EXCLUDES CERTAIN
   SHARES *

                    X

11.PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW 9

                    1.6%

12.TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON *

     Bankers Trust New York Corporation - HC
     Bankers Trust Company - BK; Bankers Trust International
     PLC - CO	

3
DISCLAIMER OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
THE FILING OF THIS SCHEDULE G STATEMENT SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED AS AN ADMISSION THAT BANKERS TRUST NEW YORK CORPORATION OR BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE (THE "BANK") OR BANKERS TRUST INTERNATIONAL PLC ("BTI") IS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECTION 13(g) OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, OR FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE, THE BENEFICIAL OWNER OF THE SECURITIES SET FORTH IN ITEM 4(a)(i) HEREOF.
Item 1(a) NAME OF ISSUER:
Textron Inc.
Item 1(b) ADDRESS OF ISSUER'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES:
40 Westminster Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Item 2(a) NAME OF PERSON FILING:
Bankers Trust New York Corporation, and its wholly- owned subsidiary, Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee for various trusts, and employee benefit plans, and investment advisor, and its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Bankers Trust International PLC.
Item 2(b) ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OFFICE:
280 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Item 2(c) CITIZENSHIP:
Bankers Trust New York Corporation and Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee for various trusts, and employee benefit plans, and investment advisor, are both corporations incorporated in the State of New York with their principal business offices located in New York; Bankers Trust International PLC is incorporated in England with its principal business office located in London.
Item 2(d) TITLE OF CLASS OF SECURITIES:
Common Stock (Par Value $0.1225) of Textron Inc., a Delaware corporation.
Item 2(e) CUSIP NUMBER:
883203101

4
Item 3 THE PERSON FILING IS A:
For Bankers Trust New York Corporation,
(g) [X] Parent Holding Company, in accordance with
Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G)
For Bankers Trust Company, and Bankers Trust International PLC
(b) [X] Bank as defined in section 3(a)(6) of the Act.
Item 4 OWNERSHIP:
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned:
(i) As of December 31, 1994, Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee for various trusts, and employee benefit plans, and investment advisor (the "Bank"), was the beneficial owner of 1,368,124 shares of common stock. Bankers Trust International PLC ("BTI"), was also the beneficial owner of 1,100 shares of common stock.
(ii) It was also the record owner of 15,334,291 shares held by the Bank as Trustee of the Textron Savings Plan (the "Plan") with respect to which the bank disclaims beneficial ownership. The Plan states that each Plan participant shall have the right to direct the manner in which shares of common stock shall be voted at all stockholders' meetings. The Department of Labor has expressed the view that, under certain circumstances, ERISA may require the Trustee to vote shares which are not allocated to participants' accounts and unvoted shares. Since, in the view of the Bank, BTI and Bankers Trust New York Corporation, such voting power is merely a residual power based upon the occurrence of an unlikely contingency and is not a sole or shared power to vote the securities, the Bank, BTI and Bankers Trust New York Corporation hereby disclaim beneficial ownership of such securities.

5
(b) PERCENT OF CLASS:
The common stock described in Item 4(a) above as to which the Bank and BTI acknowledges beneficial ownership constitutes 1.6% of the Issuer's outstanding Common Stock. The Common Stock as to which the Bank and BTI disclaims beneficial ownership constitutes 17.4% of the Issuer's outstanding Common Stock.
(c) Number of shares as to which the Bank has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct the vote - 769,453
(ii) shared power to vote or to direct the vote - 6,500
(iii) sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of - 1,362,724
(iv) shared power to dispose or to direct the disposition of - 6,500
Item 5 OWNERSHIP OF FIVE PERCENT OR LESS OF A CLASS:
[X]
Item 6 OWNERSHIP OF MORE THAN FIVE PERCENT ON BEHALF OF
ANOTHER PERSON:
The Issuer's Investment Plans, and various trusts, and employee benefit plan for which the Bank serves as Trustee, and accounts for which the Bank serves as investment advisor and BTI, have the right to receive and/or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, such securities.
Item 7 IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE SUBSIDIARY
WHICH ACQUIRED THE SECURITY BEING REPORTED ON BY THE
PARENT HOLDING COMPANY:
See Item 3 above.
Item 8 IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MEMBERS OF THE
GROUP:
Not applicable.

6
Item 9 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF GROUP:
Not Applicable
Item 10 CERTIFICATION:
By signing below I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the securities referred to above were acquired in the ordinary course of business and were not acquired for the purpose of and do not have the effect of changing or influencing the control of the issuer of such securities and were not acquired in connection with or as a participant in any transaction having such purpose or effect.
SIGNATURE:
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Date:       as of December 31, 1994

Signature:  Bankers Trust New York Corporation

By:           /s/James T. Byrne, Jr.
Name:            James T. Byrne, Jr.

Title:           Secretary

Signature:  Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee for various trusts,	

and employee benefit plans, and investment advisor.

By:           /s/James T. Byrne, Jr.
Name:            James T. Byrne, Jr.

Title:           Secretary	

Signature: Bankers Trust International, PLC

              /s/Brian E. Walsh
By:              Brian E. Walsh

Title:           Managing Director