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The General Aviation Manufacturers Association and Build A Plane opened registration earlier this week for the 2018 Aviation Design Challenge. The annual competition promotes science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills through aviation to U.S. high school students. This year, 93 schools from 31 states and Washington, DC, registered for the competition, an 18 percent […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association and Build A Plane‘s annual Aviation Design Challenge for high school students has come to a close, culminating in the selection of Olney High School from Olney, Texas as the winner. Four students from the school, along with one teacher and one chaperone, will soon travel to Arlington, Washington, to […]

The European Union at long last has approved commercial operations using single-engine turbine airplanes at night or in instrument meteorological conditions in Europe. The operations take effect today with publication in the EU’s Official Journal. The publication of the new rules marks the the culmination of a 20-year effort by industry and regulators as Europe […]

With the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s freezing its funds on July 1, the results of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association’s third quarter shipment and billing report was mixed. There was an overall loss over last year’s report for billings during the first three quarters of $600 million, from $19.1 billion in 2014 to $18.5 billion this […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association yesterday released worldwide 2014 year-end aircraft sales and delivery numbers, and not only are the figures encouraging for the future health of the industry, they very nearly shattered records. GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce reported that, for the year, total worldwide general aviation airplane shipments rose 4.3 percent, from […]

At the General Aviation Manufacturer’s Association state of the industry press conference GAMA president Pete Bunce and GAMA chairman Steve Taylor, who is president of Boeing Business Jets, shared a promising picture of the health of the GA manufacturing sector in 2013, with overall sales experiencing a modest bump in activity and sales of high-end […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association has released its figures for aircraft delivered in the first half of the year, and the numbers are mostly good. The only red mark was on business jet sales, with deliveries down 4 percent compared with last year’s first half (283 this year versus 295 in 2012). On the other […]

In an economic climate where “flat is the new up” for general aviation manufacturers, there was plenty of good news to report at GAMA’s annual state of the industry media briefing in Washington, D.C., this morning. You guessed it, 2012 was another flat year for makers of GA airplanes. Total billings last year were nearly […]

As President Obama made the rounds in Iowa during his Midwestern bus tour earlier this week, hundreds of general aviation advocates gathered in the state to send a political message of their own, one that fought back against the administration’s recent criticism of aviation tax breaks. The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) organized a rally […]

Economic hardship continues to challenge general aviation aircraft manufacturers, and a disappointing first six months of 2011 underscored that point. According to aircraft shipment and billing figures recently released by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), airplane shipments worldwide dropped 15.5 percent during the first half of 2011 compared to the same time frame last […]