Cessna considering India too for plane building facility

Cessna Aircraft Co. plans to announce next week where its new light sport aircraft will be manufactured.
One place it likely won't be is the United States. To offer the new plane, called the Model 162 SkyCatcher, at a competitive price, "a major part of that content has to be built someplace else," said Jack Pelton, Cessna's chief executive.
Cessna spokesman Bob Stangarone said company officials traveled to Argentina, Australia, China, the Czech Republic, India and Poland to search for a place to build the plane.
"We have looked literally everywhere in the world," Pelton said.
Cessna has taken more than 850 orders for the SkyCatcher since formally launching the program in July. The first 1,000 will sell for $109,500 before the price rises to $111,500.
The plane's first flight is scheduled for the first half of 2008 with deliveries to begin in the second half of 2009.
At full production, expected by 2011, Cessna plans to produce up to 700 of the aluminum planes a year.
Demand for Citation business jets is prompting Cessna to add about 1,500 jobs in 2008, about 1,200 of them in Wichita, officials told The Eagle earlier this week.
24/11/07 Molly McMillin/The Wichita Eagle/Kansas.com, US

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