GAMA Numbers: Piston Deliveries Up

Stephen Pope

Tuesday, May 06, 2014 at 09:22 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

General Aviation (GA) piston airplane deliveries increased significantly by 21.4% in the first quarter, with 221 units shipped.
Overall GA shipments were up 11.9% to 500 airplanes, valued at $5.1 billion, despite a decrease in turboprop deliveries.
GAMA views the strong piston segment growth as encouraging for economic recovery but notes the mixed performance across sectors indicates the industry is "a long way from being out of the woods."

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Has the market for GA piston airplanes finally turned a corner? Maybe not just yet, but we’re starting to see welcome improvements based on numbers from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, whose latest figures show that aircraft deliveries grew by more than 20 percent in this year’s first quarter.

The 221 piston airplanes shipped in the January-March quarter was up 21.4 percent versus the 182 delivered for the same period last year. Deliveries of turboprops, meanwhile, shrank by 8.1 percent with 125 shipped compared to 136 in Q1 2013.