GAMA Highlights Rise in Business Jet Deliveries

摘要

DELIVERIES OF business jets in the first three quarters of 2019 increased by 15.4% in comparison to the same period last year. Figures released by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) on November 15 listed 516 business jets handed over during the period, the highest number since 2009, against 447 in the initial nine months of 2018. Turboprops and rotorcraft deliveries declined by 11,6% and 22.2% respectively, but piston-engined examples were up by 12.3%. Overall, 2,460 aircraft were delivered in 2019 by GAMA members, 804 in the third quarter. Of these, 193 were jet powered: from Airbus Corporate Jets (one ACJ319neo); Boeing Business Jets (a 787-9 BBJ); Bombardier, 31 (five Learjet 75s, 17 Challenger 350s and 650s, nine Global 5000/6000/7500S); Cirrus, 21 light SF50 Vision Jets; Embraer, 27 (one Phenom 100 and 14 300s, four Legacy 450s and one 500, and seven Praetor 600s); Gulfstream, 38 (nine G280s and 29 G500/600/550/650s); Honda, eight HondaJets; Pilatus, 11 PC-24s; and Textron, 45 Citations (five M2s, 10 CJ3+S, seven CJ4s, six XLS+s, two Sovereign+s and 15 Latitudes). No third quarter figures for Dassault's Falcon series were available at the time because the company only reports deliveries in the middle and the end of each year.