Interview – David Irons

The General Aviation industry throughout Australia and the world is currently in a state of crisis. Falling sales, a third of what they were during the halcyon days of the late seventies, have reduced America’s ‘big three’ to much smaller concerns beginning to concentrate on the higher end of the market in order to survive. The Australian situation is even worse as a falling dollar, high interest rates and a deeply rooted recession have all combined to take their toll. To find out where the GA industry is headed Australian Aviation interviewed the General Manager for Rex Aviation and National President of the General Aviation Association, Mr David Irons, to ascertain the future of GA in Australia.

JS: The general aviation industry obviously has serious problems. How much of this is directly related to the general economic downturn and rural drought and how much to external factors such as over-regulation and adverse perception by the general public and business community who are potential users of GA as to its cost-effectiveness, safety and so on?

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