Aircraft
Piper Aicraft's Revenues, Sales Surge
Piper is seeing large new orders thanks to the pilot shortage.
Piper's M600 single-engine turboprop is driving growing M-class sales. (Photo: Matt Thurber)
Piper's M600 single-engine turboprop is driving growing M-class sales. (Photo: Matt Thurber)

Piper Aircraft’s move to serve the flight training market and expand its roster of high-performance M-class singles is paying off. “Obviously, the market is good,” Piper president and CEO Simon Caldecott said on Monday at EAA AirVenture 2018. “In 2011 when I took over at Piper, we decided to get back into the training market in a big way.” Caldecott joined Piper in 2009, and that year Piper delivered 14 training aircraft. This year that number will reach about 145, he said, “Ten times more than in 2009.”


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