On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:31:59 -0700, Jay Honeck
wrote in om:

In my opinion, Mr. Bass was either floating a trial balloon idea about
cutting off support for old, out-of-production aircraft, or he just
got carried away during his speech and injected his own personal
opinions. Either way, this reaction -- sudden, vociferous, succinct,
loud, and unanimous -- from the pilot community has effectively and
surely shot it down.

From his statement, it seems to me that nothing could be further from
the truth. He is merely saying Piper has no date certain for cutting
off the supply of spare parts. Likely they just won't be
manufactured, and existing stocks of parts will be allowed to run out
as they are shipped to customers over time.