Cessna and Piper trainer lineup
Hi Guys,
Back in the 70s, both Cessna and Piper had a complete lineup of reasonably modern and visually attractive training aeroplanes, in each case starting from a two seat basic trainer and moving up by degrees to decent small twins.
These days, apart from Cessna's C162 Flycatcher and the so-called Pipersport, (which is really a Czech design), neither of these companies has a complete or genuinely modern lineup of small training A/C.
I can't help thinking that they have both lost interest in the bottom end of the market. I expect there is little profit in small trainers and much more money to be made from exec-twins and biz-jets.
I think we shall end up looking elsewhere for our next generation of small trainers; probably to the newer European manufacturers such as Technam, Aquila, Mission and similar.
BP.