"Jim Macklin" writes:

Beech [Raytheon] are very good because of the attitude of
the management under Olive Ann Beech. If they drill a hole
in a sheet in the wrong spot, they get a new sheet, Cessna
puts a rivet in the hole.

I understand she's been out of the picture for 25 years, though, no?

If they have a reputation for quality, I hope they keep it. I'm so
tired of companies sacrificing quality in whatever they do in pursuit
of quarterly profits.

Every company builds good and not so good airplanes. The
intended use, and who will use it may be a deciding factor.

Which companies are still likely to be around twenty years from now?
(Keeping in mind that aircraft can remain airworthy much longer than
that.)

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