Cirrus Aircraft, for one, continues to defy market trends by selling out production of its piston models year in and year out while focusing much of its attention this year on deliveries of its newest product, the SF50 Vision Jet, for which the company has taken more than 600 orders. Other manufacturers of piston models aren't faring quite as well, but Cessna and Piper have been buoyed by fleet sales to flight-training organizations, which continue to account for a large portion of production of piston-powered airplanes nowadays.
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