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GAMA has released their 2018 year-end results at its “State of the Industry” press conference, this week. GAMA Chairman and Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. President Mark Burns announced that globally, airplane shipments increased 4.7 percent, to 2,443 units in 2018. Airplane billings increased 1.5 percent, from $20.2 billion to $20.6 billion. Worldwide rotorcraft shipments rose 5.4 percent, from 926 to 976 units. Rotorcraft billings decreased slightly, by 0.7 percent. Aerobatic pilot Spencer Suderman was unsuccessful in his attempt to break his own record for inverted flat spins last week. Suderman set the current record at 98 turns in March, 2016, breaking his own previous record