The numbers are in and in a couple of ways, 2006 was a record year for the General Aviation Manufacturers Association -- no less so than in the record $18.8 billion in sales recorded...

But 2,750 pistons, regardless of how good that sounds for contemporary times, still pales next to those five-digit years of the late 1970s...ah, for the good-old days, we have the new good-old days...

http://www.gama.aero/mediaCenter/pr.php?id=138