He went on to state that Piper would no longer be able to provide
parts support for "ancient" aircraft, and tossed out a "maximum" age
of 25 years.

That's a familiar number. Isn't that the age at which liability ends,
or somesuch?

everything in their business was now dictated by
product liability.

There you go.

Mary and I will keep on keeping on, flying as often and as far as we
can, spreading the good word of aviation

How much flying would you be doing if you could not write off any of it?

Jose
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