“Piper will go on for ever”
Not sure I agree. Piper may have made 144,000 aircraft with 90,000 still flying, but the fleet is aging. The old PA38 and PA28’s are becoming very cheap and in Euro land the cost of maintenance must be approaching the hull value. As the new ELA-1 aircraft start to come in the Piper fleet will be scraped in large numbers. Obviously the more modern airframes will continue, but the sales of parts on traditional aircraft will fall sharply over the next 10 years.
Rod1