Aircraft
Pre-owned Market Solid for Eclipse 500s
While most business jet manufacturers rarely announce how many airplanes they have built before providing quarterly shipment numbers to the General Aviatio

While most business jet manufacturers rarely announce how many airplanes they have built before providing quarterly shipment numbers to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, Eclipse Aviation announced last month that it had delivered 45 aircraft in the first quarter. (“Delivered” airplanes have a bill of sale, the buyer has paid and signed the acceptance papers.)

In an early April letter to customers, Eclipse president and CEO Vern Raburn said that the company built 55 Eclipse 500s in the first quarter of this year, “fifty-four percent of last year’s production in twenty-five percent of the time.”