“There are 16,000 registered home-built planes flying in this country, more than double the number 10 years ago. Several factors brought this state of affairs about. In the past decade, several huge adverse product liability Judgments and some ill-advised marketing decisions
vastly inflated the price of mass-produced light planes — which is to say, Cessnas, Pipers and Beechcraft. Right now, the cheapest single-engine Beechcraft sells for $256,000; a much snazzier kit plane can be had - albeit disassembled — for about $30,000. The $700,000 BD-10 is the priciest, highest-performance expression of this trend.”
(extracted from “Build Them, Fly Them” by A. Meisler — The New York Times Magazine May 22, 1994)
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