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Old April 26th 07, 11:16 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Nathan Young
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Default NY Times Story on Pilot Population Decline

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:53:18 -0400, "Marco Leon"
wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/fa...=1&oref=slogin


One thing that story has wrong is that there are no $100k airplanes to
support Sport Pilots.

The LSA industry certainly appears to be booming. Every flying
magazine I get has a new LSA listed each month. Most of the LSAs are
~$100k.