Chad is the editor of AINalerts, AIN's daily business aviation newsletter, and is also the news editor at AIN Media Group.&nbsp;He has been writing about aviation, with an emphasis on business aviation, since 1994. Chad started his writing career at The Avion,&nbsp;the&nbsp;student newspaper at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, serving as editor-in-chief before graduating with a bachelor's in aeronautical science. After a stint as managing editor at Professional Pilot&nbsp;magazine, he joined&nbsp;AIN in late 1998. Chad holds a commercial pilot certificated with instrument and multi-engine ratings, and he also is a CFI/CFII. He lives and works from his home in Venice, Florida.

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Chad Trautvetter

Despite an order backlog covering 5,000 aircraft, turbine business aircraft manufacturers are expected to experience the steepest decline in production of any aerospace sector, according to figures revealed by management consultancy AeroStrategy at an aerospace materials conference in Pittsburgh last month. These manufacturers have already announced 20- to 30-percent production cutbacks this year, but AeroStrategy partner Kevin Michaels said this could yet grow to 40 percent. He predicts that annual business aircraft deliveries will decline to about 1,300 aircraft by 2012, eventually reaching 2,000 aircraft per year by 2019.

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Despite an order backlog covering 5,000 aircraft, turbine business aircraft manufacturers are expected to experience the steepest decline in production of 

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