They are the same, but they only show a fraction of manufacturers or sales. There are many LSA (read: certified aircraft) manufacturers, glider and motorglider manufacturers, microlight manufacturers and of course the Kit manufacturers that go unnoticed. There are even a couple CS23 aircraft manufacturers not mentioned. So a decline in GAMA reported sales has only limited value to the evaluation of aircraft sales as a whole because a shift to LSA or microlight, motorgliders or homebuilt aircraft goes unnoticed.
LeSving wrote:
What is GAMA anyway.
It doesn’t matter who they are or who they represent in this context. The production/sales figures they publish are the same for everybody.
What is GAMA anyway. Except from bizjets and helicopters they represent 10-20 % of GA. Very much irrelevant for most pilots and most of the associated GA industry (with the exceptions above).
