{"id":899,"date":"2012-05-08T06:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T06:19:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-08T06:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T06:19:57","slug":"piper-aircraft-european-sales-stronger-anticipated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/news-release\/piper-aircraft-european-sales-stronger-anticipated\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Piper Aircraft European Sales Stronger Than Anticipated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vero Beach, Fla., May 7, 2012 &#8211; Piper Aircraft dealers in Europe have noted a sales trend toward new, more fuel-efficient business aircraft.<\/p>\n<div>&quot;We are seeing more buyers opt for new, more fuel-efficient aircraft as they downsize from twin-engine aircraft,&quot; said Peter<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Cherokee 180_8919PHedit1_0.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" \/> Winters, General Manager of Winters Aviation, with Piper sales responsibility in France and Belgium. &quot;At the same time they are keeping their cabin-class preferences intact with the single-engine Piper Meridian and Piper Mirage. They are just flying more efficiently now in response to changes in aviation fuel prices,&quot; he said.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Early in 2012, Piper delivered three new Piper Meridian turboprops into France and a Piper Mirage pressurized single in Switzerland. Additionally, the company has five more M-Class single-engine aircraft set for delivery to retail customers in Europe this year.<\/div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&quot;This performance is higher already than we expected for the entire year,&quot; said Enrico Evers, Piper&#8217;s Director of Sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. &quot;Winters Aviation has been particularly effective,&quot; Evers said. &quot;But indeed the whole EMEA Piper dealer network has been strong.&quot;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Piper&#8217;s international aircraft deliveries continued to outpace those in the United States, led by the vigorous sales in Europe. The company&#8217;s international success clearly demonstrates the wisdom of its aggressive globalization strategy.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&quot;All of our dealers are fielding more customer inquiries and the recently ended AERO Friedrichshafen aviation trade show generated considerably more leads and aircraft demonstrations than past years,&quot; he said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vero Beach, Fla., May 7, 2012 &#8211; Piper Aircraft dealers in Europe have noted a sales trend toward new, more fuel-efficient business aircraft. &quot;We are seeing more buyers opt for new, more fuel-efficient aircraft as they downsize from twin-engine aircraft,&quot; said Peter Winters, General Manager of Winters Aviation, with Piper sales responsibility in France and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Cherokee 180_8919PHedit1_0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}