SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC/ (Last) (First) (Middle) 85 BROAD STREET (Street) NEW YORK NY 10004 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol HEXCEL CORP /DE/ [ HXL ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 12/29/2005
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) Form filed by One Reporting Person X Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	12/29/2005		C		14,107,999(3)(4)	A	$3(4)	14,114,979	I	See footnotes(1)(2)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock	$3(4)	12/29/2005		C			42,324	03/19/2003	01/22/2010	Common Stock	14,107,999	$0(3)(4)	0	I	See footnotes(1)(2)(15)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC/ (Last) (First) (Middle) 85 BROAD STREET (Street) NEW YORK NY 10004 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GOLDMAN SACHS & CO (Last) (First) (Middle) 85 BROAD ST C/O GOLDMAN SACHS & CO (Street) NEW YORK NY 10004 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GS CAPITAL PARTNERS 2000 LP (Last) (First) (Middle) 85 BROAD STREET (Street) NEW YORK NY 10004 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GS CAPITAL PARTNERS 2000 EMPLOYEE FUND LP (Last) (First) (Middle) 85 BROAD ST (Street) NEW YORK NY 10004 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GS CAPITAL PARTNERS 2000 GMBH & CO BETEILIGUNGS KG (Last) (First) (Middle) MESSE TURM 60308 FRANKFURT AM MAIN (Street) GERMANY 2M 00000 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GS CAPITAL PARTNERS 2000 OFFSHORE LP (Last) (First) (Middle) MESSE TURM 60308 FRANKFURT AM MAIN (Street) GERMANY 2M 00000 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GOLDMAN SACHS & CO OHG (Last) (First) (Middle) 85 BROAD STREET (Street) NEW YORK NY 10004 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GOLDMAN SACHS MANAGEMENT GP GMBH (Last) (First) (Middle) MESSETURM 60308 FRANKFURT AM MAIN (Street) GERMANY 2M 00000 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GS EMPLOYEE FUNDS 2000 GP LLC (Last) (First) (Middle) 85 BROAD ST (Street) NEW YORK NY 10004 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* STONE STREET FUND 2000 LP (Last) (First) (Middle) 85 BROAD ST (Street) NEW YORK NY 10004 (City) (State) (Zip) Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer Director X 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)

Explanation of Responses:

1. This statement is being filed by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ("GS Group"), Goldman, Sachs & Co. ("Goldman Sachs"), GS Advisors 2000, L.L.C. ("GS Advisors"), Goldman, Sachs & Co. oHG ("GS oHG"), Goldman, Sachs Management GP GmbH ("GS GmbH"), GS Employee Funds 2000 GP, L.L.C. ("GS Employee 2000"), Stone Street 2000, L.L.C. ("Stone 2000"), GS Capital Partners 2000, L.P. ("GS Capital"), GS Capital Partners 2000 Offshore, L.P. ("GS Offshore"), GS Capital Partners 2000 GmbH & Co. Beteiligungs KG ("GS Germany"), GS Capital Partners 2000 Employee Fund, L.P. ("GS Employee"), Stone Street Fund 2000, L.P. ("Stone Street" and, together with GS Capital, GS Offshore, GS Germany and GS Employee, the "Limited Partnerships"), LXH Holdings Corp. ("LXH Corp."), LXH Holdings, L.P. ("LXH L.P."), LXH, L.L.C. ("LXH"), and LXH II, L.L.C. ("LXH II" and, together with LXH, the "LXH Entities"), (continued in next footnote)

2. (GS Group, Goldman Sachs, GS Advisors, GS oHG, GS GmbH, GS Employee 2000, Stone 2000, the Limited Partnerships, LXH Corp., LXH L.P., and the LXH Entities, collectively, the "Reporting Persons"). Due to the electronic system's limitation of 10 Reporting Persons per joint filing, this statement is being filed in duplicate.

3. On December 29, 2005, at the request of Hexcel Corporation (the "Company"), the Limited Partnerships converted an aggregate of 42,324 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, without par value (the "Series A Preferred Stock"), of the Company into an aggregate of 14,107,999 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), of the Company (the "Conversion"). On December 29, 2005, the Company announced that all holders of its Series A Preferred Stock elected to convert all of their shares of Series A Preferred Stock into shares of Common Stock.

4. The conversion rate of the Series A Preferred Stock is determined using a conversion price of $3.00 (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances as specified in the applicable Certificates of Designations relating to such series of preferred stock). On this basis, each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible into a number of shares of Common Stock equal to $1,000/$3.00.

5. Goldman Sachs may be deemed to beneficially own directly and GS Group may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 720 shares of Common Stock. GS Group and Goldman Sachs may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 74 shares of Common Stock by reason of the beneficial ownership of such shares by the LXH Entities. LXH may be deemed to beneficially own directly 42 shares of Common Stock. LXH II may be deemed to beneficially own directly 32 shares of Common Stock. In addition, GS Group may be deemed to beneficially own 6,186 shares of Common Stock which were granted pursuant to the Hexcel Corporation 2003 Incentive Stock Plan, consisting of 3,093 shares of phantom stock granted to each of Sanjeev K. Mehra, a managing director of Goldman Sachs, and Peter M. Sacerdote, an advisory director of Goldman Sachs, in their capacity as directors of the Company.

6. Affiliates of GS Group and Goldman Sachs are the members or managing members of the LXH Entities. Affiliates of GS Group and Goldman Sachs are the general partners or managing partners of the Limited Partnerships. Goldman Sachs is the investment manager of the Limited Partnerships. Goldman Sachs is a direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of GS Group. Each of Goldman Sachs and GS Group disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock owned beneficially and directly by the LXH Entities and owned beneficially and indirectly by the Limited Partnerships, except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein.

7. Each of (i) GS Capital, the managing member of LXH, the managing general partner of LXH L.P. and the sole stockholder of LXH Corp., and (ii) GS Advisors, the general partner of GS Capital, may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly an aggregate of 42 shares of Common Stock by reason of LXH's beneficial ownership of such shares. Each of GS Capital and GS Advisors disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein. LXH Corp., the limited partner of LXH L.P., may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 1.45 shares of Common Stock by reason of LXH's beneficial ownership of such shares. LXH Corp. disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock described herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein.

8. LXH L.P., a member of LXH, may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 1.69 shares of Common Stock by reason of LXH's beneficial ownership of such shares. LXH L.P. disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock described herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein. LXH may be deemed to beneficially own directly 42 shares of Common Stock. Each of (i) GS Offshore, the managing member of LXH II, and (ii) GS Advisors, the general partner of GS Offshore, may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 15 shares of Common Stock by reason of LXH II's beneficial ownership of such shares. Each of GS Offshore and GS Advisors disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein.

9. Each of (i) GS Germany, a member of LXH II, (ii) GS GmbH, the sole managing partner of GS Germany, and (iii) GS oHG, the sole stockholder of GS GmbH, may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 2 shares of Common Stock by reason of LXH II's beneficial ownership of such shares. Each of GS Germany, GS GmbH and GS oHG disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein. Each of (i) GS Employee, a member of LXH II and (ii) GS Employee 2000, the general partner of GS Employee, may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 14 shares of Common Stock by reason of LXH II's beneficial ownership of such shares. Each of GS Employee and GS Employee 2000 disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein.

10. Each of (i) Stone Street, a member of LXH II and (ii) Stone 2000, the general partner of Stone Street, may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 1 share of Common Stock by reason of LXH II's beneficial ownership of such shares. Each of Stone Street and Stone 2000 disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein.

11. GS Group and Goldman Sachs may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly 14,107,999 shares of Common Stock by reason of the beneficial ownership of such shares by the Limited Partnerships. GS Capital may be deemed to beneficially own directly 8,034,913 shares of Common Stock. GS Offshore may be deemed to beneficially own directly 2,919,392 shares of Common Stock. GS Germany may be deemed to beneficially own directly 335,933 shares of Common Stock. GS Employee may be deemed to beneficially own directly 2,552,816 shares of Common Stock. Stone Street may be deemed to beneficially own directly 264,945 shares of Common Stock. (continued in next footnote)

12. Affiliates of GS Group and Goldman Sachs are the general partners or managing partners of the Limited Partnerships. Goldman Sachs is the investment manager of the Limited Partnerships. Goldman Sachs is a direct and indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of GS Group. Each of Goldman Sachs and GS Group disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock owned beneficially and directly by the Limited Partnerships, except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein.

13. GS Advisors may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly (i) an aggregate of 8,034,913 shares of Common Stock by reason of GS Capital's beneficial ownership of such shares and (ii) an aggregate of 2,919,392 shares of Common Stock by reason of GS Offshore's beneficial ownership of such shares. GS Advisors disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein. Each of GS GmbH and GS oHG may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly an aggregate of 335,933 shares of Common Stock by reason of GS Germany's beneficial ownership of such shares. Each of GS GmbH and GS oHG disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein.

14. GS Employee 2000 may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly an aggregate of 2,552,816 shares of Common Stock by reason of GS Employee's beneficial ownership of such shares. GS Employee 2000 disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein. Stone 2000 may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly an aggregate of 264,945 shares of Common Stock by reason of Stone Street's beneficial ownership of such shares. Stone 2000 disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of Common Stock reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein.

15. As a result of the Conversion, the Reporting Persons no longer beneficially own, either directly or indirectly, any shares of Series A Preferred Stock.

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