>
> > 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
Thanks for setting me straight.
I imagined it would be possible to make LSAs in USA,
selling them at 120k, and making 10k to 20k profit.
If we can't do that, we'll need to be grateful
to the Chinese Folk for helping us out.
Cheers,
Mike
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