On Apr 26, 2016, at 1:16 PM, Mike Borgelt <[email protected]> wrote:
> That is probably highly classified. They’re a sold commodity. I’d have thought there’d be a revenue line-item in the annual financial report. http://www.glidingaustralia.org/Admin/financial_report_2012.pdf <http://www.glidingaustralia.org/Admin/financial_report_2012.pdf> 2011/12 airworthiness revenue was $133,302 (page 11, repeated on page 20). If all of that was accumulated by selling form-2 kits @ $200 ea, that’s 666 form-2 kits. The airworthiness section of the GFA site also sells other products though, so some of that revenue probably came from selling repair manuals, DI handbooks, design approval management services, $950 “initial packages” for imported gliders, etc. Maybe a finger-in-the-air estimate band of 500 - 650 airworthy gliders in Australia in 2012? My not-very-diligent, possibly-miscounted tally of icons on the map here: http://www.admin.glidingaustralia.org/index.php?option=com_googlemaplocator&view=location&Itemid=132 <http://www.admin.glidingaustralia.org/index.php?option=com_googlemaplocator&view=location&Itemid=132> yields 48 gliding sites in Australia, so that’s maybe a bit over ten gliders per site. Does that sound about right as an average? Dunno: There are a lot of small clubs, but there are some pretty big ones too which might even out the numbers. - mark
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