Piston Airplanes Grow More Than 20 Percent, But Turboprops Declined
There was some very good news in GAMAs first quarter report for 2014. In the first three months of the year, total worldwide general aviation (GA) airplane shipments increased 11.9 percent, from 447 units in 2013 to 500 units in 2014. Billings for GA airplanes totaled $5.1 billion in the first quarter, up 9.0 percent from the same period last year.
Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV), chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Senator John Thune (R-SD), the committee's ranking Republican, offered different views of the Transportation Security Agency at an oversight hearing held by the committee Wednesday.
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