NAFA member General Aviation Manufacturer’s Association (GAMA) issued its Q3 2025 billings and delivery report and the news in the jet segment was very good indeed. Mike Potts takes a closer look.
The piston market could hardly be more flat, with just five units separating this year’s total from last year’s.
Of the 16 companies reporting piston deliveries, five are ahead of last year’s totals, seven and lagging behind and four are even. Looking at just the third quarter, six are ahead, six are behind and four are even.
While this suggests a balanced market, there is a pretty wide disparity among just how some of the individual companies are doing. Some are doing quite well while others are far off their prior year pace.
Cirrus continues to be the single-engine piston market leader, but by a margin that is narrowing as the year plays out. They finished the third quarter with 483 deliveries, up more than 15.27 percent from the 419 units they reported last year.
Oddly, their third quarter results were very close, with 178 units this year against 175 in 2024, or a gain of just 1.7 percent. Cirrus is so far ahead of the rest of the field that this difference hardly seems to matter, but it is interesting to watch.
This report was originally published by AvBuyer on January 28, 2026.