> Personally, I think it's a great pity that Cessna is not
> providing an "All American" LSA.
> (and I believe at the price they asking, they could have)
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
Hehehe... saying you believe it doesn't make it so!
I believe they can't, or they would have done it.
I would estimate that there is probably more than 1000 hours of labor per airplane. That includes the fabricater, assemblers, riggers, avionics techs, machinists, painters, cafeteria workers, and janitors. I'm sure I missed a few ;)
I think you posted a message the other day saying that Cessna saved $71,000 per aircraft by building offshore. That number sounds realistic.
Cessna pays their union workers around $25 an hour in wages, that would translate into $100 an hour when you add up the overhead (wages, retirement, health insurance, supervision, parking lot repaveing, training, loss from theft, etc...)
A LOT more goes into the production cost than just the $25 an hour the assemblers make. When I was building airplanes as a memeber of the same union (IAMAW) the company paid me ~$30/hr and charged the customer ~$150/hr for my services.
Rick
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