Cessna To Build Skycatcher Overseas Despite Cheap Dollar

Cessna SkyCatcher HQ to Be Announced This Week

CESSNA TO BUILD SKYCATCHER OVERSEAS
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196645)
Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has confirmed what many suspected when the
Cessna 162 Skycatcher -- and its $109,000 price tag -- were
introduced earlier this year. In an interview with The Wichita
Eagle (http://www.kansas.com/107/story/236262.html), Cessna CEO
Jack Pelton said that to make that price target "a major part of
that content has to be built someplace else." Cessna intends to
announce where the little aluminum high-wing will be made at a
news conference on Wednesday. The company has searched the world
looking for the right manufacturer.



http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071123/euro_dollar.html?.v=1
Meanwhile, Airbus CEO Thomas Enders said the euro has now "crossed
the pain threshold" and that the rate of the dollar's fall "hardly
leaves room for reasonable adapting."




http://finance.yahoo.com/charts#char...urce=undefined
Five year graph.



http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071106/dollar.html?.v=5
Dollar Falls to New Lows

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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Cessna SkyCatcher HQ to Be Announced This Week

CESSNA TO BUILD SKYCATCHER OVERSEAS
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196645)
Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has confirmed what many suspected when the
Cessna 162 Skycatcher -- and its $109,000 price tag -- were
introduced earlier this year. In an interview with The Wichita
Eagle (http://www.kansas.com/107/story/236262.html), Cessna CEO
Jack Pelton said that to make that price target "a major part of
that content has to be built someplace else." Cessna intends to
announce where the little aluminum high-wing will be made at a
news conference on Wednesday. The company has searched the world
looking for the right manufacturer.



http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071123/euro_dollar.html?.v=1
Meanwhile, Airbus CEO Thomas Enders said the euro has now "crossed
the pain threshold" and that the rate of the dollar's fall "hardly
leaves room for reasonable adapting."




http://finance.yahoo.com/charts#char...urce=undefined
Five year graph.



http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071106/dollar.html?.v=5
Dollar Falls to New Lows


I have a proforma sitting on my desk for a container that I need from Italy.
It is going to cost me 15% more than it did two years ago. I had two
containers shipped here two years ago, this year I am doing a half container
that I am sharing with another company. I only ordered what we HAD to have
instead of putting more in overstock. So I can see how much this has hurt
importing from the EU and the UK, two places where I import a lot from.

I wonder if Cessna will choose a company in China to build their plane. If
so you can count me out. If my iPod decides to die I can handle that, if a
wing falls off then I'm in deep ****.

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:19:37 -0500, "Darkwing"
theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in
:

I wonder if Cessna will choose a company in China to build their plane.

I would want to see FAA inspectors stationed on-site at the foreign
manufacturing facility, so that US consumers could be assured that the
composite construction was performed correctly. I would think it
would be difficult to inspect it after the fact.

On Nov 26, 10:31 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:19:37 -0500, "Darkwing"
theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in
:

I wonder if Cessna will choose a company in China to build their plane.

I would want to see FAA inspectors stationed on-site at the foreign
manufacturing facility, so that US consumers could be assured that the
composite construction was performed correctly. I would think it
would be difficult to inspect it after the fact.

Yes, especially with lead based paint on the wings. X-Rays don't go
through lead very well... ;-)

On Nov 26, 11:54 am, wrote:

Yes, especially with lead based paint on the wings.


Hmmm. That's really going to bring the useful load down.

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:19:37 -0500, "Darkwing"
theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in
:

I wonder if Cessna will choose a company in China to build their
plane.

I would want to see FAA inspectors stationed on-site at the foreign
manufacturing facility, so that US consumers could be assured that the
composite construction was performed correctly. I would think it
would be difficult to inspect it after the fact.

FAA isn't inspecting US built SLAs why should they inspect foreign?

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:45:04 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
:


FAA isn't inspecting US built SLAs why should they inspect foreign?


Because of the evidence provided recently of foreign made goods being
below standard.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:45:04 -0600, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
:


FAA isn't inspecting US built SLAs why should they inspect foreign?


Because of the evidence provided recently of foreign made goods being
below standard.

....and what a surprise that came to all of us.

Larry Dighera schrieb:

Because of the evidence provided recently of foreign made goods being
below standard.

Surely you mean Japanese made cars... or German made gliders... or
Austrian made airplanes (Diamond)... or Swiss made airplanes
(Pilatus)... no, wait, Airbus... whatever.

On 2007-11-26 07:21:09 -0800, Larry Dighera said:


Cessna SkyCatcher HQ to Be Announced This Week

CESSNA TO BUILD SKYCATCHER OVERSEAS
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#196645)
Cessna CEO Jack Pelton has confirmed what many suspected when the
Cessna 162 Skycatcher -- and its $109,000 price tag -- were
introduced earlier this year. In an interview with The Wichita
Eagle (http://www.kansas.com/107/story/236262.html), Cessna CEO
Jack Pelton said that to make that price target "a major part of
that content has to be built someplace else." Cessna intends to
announce where the little aluminum high-wing will be made at a
news conference on Wednesday. The company has searched the world
looking for the right manufacturer.



http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071123/euro_dollar.html?.v=1
Meanwhile, Airbus CEO Thomas Enders said the euro has now "crossed
the pain threshold" and that the rate of the dollar's fall "hardly
leaves room for reasonable adapting."




http://finance.yahoo.com/charts#char...urce=undefined


Five year graph.



http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071106/dollar.html?.v=5
Dollar Falls to New Lows

Cessna already makes many of their subassemblies in Mexico. Almost all
their jets are manufactured there and final assembly is in the US. So I
would guess that the Skycatcher, which already was going to have wings
and fuselage manufactured in Mexico, will also be assembled in Mexico.

The decline in the dollar has been a long time coming. It has been far
too strong since the 1970s at least. In particular, China's refusal to
allow their currency to trade at its real value has created huge
distortions in international trade. American-made products were far too
expensive to be competitive with anything manufactured overseas,
hurting employment at home.

The time when an American tourist could go where he wanted and buy
anything he wanted is ending, but so is the time when every American
company was shipping all our jobs overseas.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor