Gig 601XL Builder
November 26th 07, 05:01 PM
According to AVweb
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1004-full.html#196645
Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has confirmed what many suspected when the Cessna 162
Skycatcher - and its $109,000 price tag - were introduced earlier this year.
In an interview with The Wichita Eagle, Cessna CEO Jack Pelton said that to
make that price target "a major part of that content has to be built
someplace else." Cessna intends to announce where the little aluminum
high-wing will be made at a news conference on Wednesday. The company has
searched the world looking for the right manufacturer. Cessna spokesman Bob
Stangarone told the Eagle the company has looked at companies in Argentina,
Australia, China, the Czech Republic, India and Poland to build the
aircraft, which is expected to fly in 2008 and begin deliveries in 2009. "We
have looked literally everywhere in the world," Pelton said. Cessna says it
has firm orders for 850 Skycatchers. Just what, if any, market impact the
outsourcing will have is anyone's guess but it does cast Cirrus's decision
to adapt an already-flying European design into its Light Sport entrant in a
different light. The SRS will be based on the Fk Lightplanes Polaris but
will have Cirrus-style modifications, including a parachute, toe brakes and
other refinements aimed at the U.S. market.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1004-full.html#196645
Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has confirmed what many suspected when the Cessna 162
Skycatcher - and its $109,000 price tag - were introduced earlier this year.
In an interview with The Wichita Eagle, Cessna CEO Jack Pelton said that to
make that price target "a major part of that content has to be built
someplace else." Cessna intends to announce where the little aluminum
high-wing will be made at a news conference on Wednesday. The company has
searched the world looking for the right manufacturer. Cessna spokesman Bob
Stangarone told the Eagle the company has looked at companies in Argentina,
Australia, China, the Czech Republic, India and Poland to build the
aircraft, which is expected to fly in 2008 and begin deliveries in 2009. "We
have looked literally everywhere in the world," Pelton said. Cessna says it
has firm orders for 850 Skycatchers. Just what, if any, market impact the
outsourcing will have is anyone's guess but it does cast Cirrus's decision
to adapt an already-flying European design into its Light Sport entrant in a
different light. The SRS will be based on the Fk Lightplanes Polaris but
will have Cirrus-style modifications, including a parachute, toe brakes and
other refinements aimed at the U.S. market.