Right on the Marque
As motoring enthusiasts look upon Chevrolet, Ford, and Chrysler as the U.S. Automotive Industry’s Big Three, so aircraft aficionados revere Cessna, Beechcraft, and Piper as the holy trinity of America’s General Aviation aircraft marques. Cessna and Beechcraft, though active, still, in the production of light G.A. airplanes, have devoted the larger parts of their design and manufacturing faculties to their CitationJet and King Air aircraft families respectively. Piper, despite offering impressive turbine machines the likes of the M500 and M600/SLS, has remained, at its heart, a builder of piston-engine airplanes e