Another American aviation company sold to China!

[Jimbabwe]

Glasair Aviation has just been sold to an investor in China.

http://glasair.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/glasair-aviation-acquired-by-mr-fang-tieji-chairman-of-jilin-hanxing-group-co-ltd/

I HAD been considering building a Sportsman 2+2, but, not anymore. Van's, here I come! RV-14?

Glasair joins this partial list of other American aviation companies sold to the Chinese or building planes, engines or parts in China:

Cessna
Cirrus
Continental Motors
Hawker Beechcraft
Mattituck Services (a unit of Continental, subsequently closed)

[Kyle Boatright]

My answer doesn't fit either category. Ownership does influence my choice, but is only one of many factors in my purchase decision.

[wyoranch]

I have to be honest and say that I was extremely disappointed at another US company sending their product overseas. It does impact my decisions, quite heavily.
Rick

[PaulDow]

I'm not in the market for a plane, but I would need to think twice before making such a large purchase.
I think you missed Superior Air Parts from that list.
It looks like the way to save American manufacturing is to take out the labor with robotics and 3D printing. That way the advantage is negated.

[vaflier]

Guess we had better all learn to speak Chinese. They will own this country shortly. Damn shame our politicians have allowed us to get to this state of affairs. But we keep voting for the useless peices of crap so I guess we should not complain.

[Kyle Boatright]

Guess we had better all learn to speak Chinese. They will own this country shortly. Damn shame our politicians have allowed us to get to this state of affairs. But we keep voting for the useless peices of crap so I guess we should not complain.

I don't want to come across hard nosed about this, but if people chose American made products over imports this wouldn't be an issue. You and I can make a difference by buying American when the products and prices are similar, or even when the US products are slightly more expensive. In the end, that slightly higher short term expense will pay for itself several times over if the money recirculates in the US economy as opposed to going overseas.

[Joe Delene]

One needs to back up a few steps & understand WHY the climate is such in the USA that a manufacturing business has a hard time staying viable? When it comes to aviation a good part are liability issues, any reform is impossible right now. The same people who push restrictive rules sit in wonder as a plant closes & moves out of the country. There are only a few dots to connect to see the process. Unlike Gov't, a business has to make money once in a while. Sen. Harry Reid grandstanding about Olympic uniforms made in China is just as silly. Extremely silly because he's one who helped push U.S. manufacturers out.

[Bill Greenwood]

Let's say you are a consumer and go to Walmart to buy clothes for you kids back to school. Do you buy the $39 jacket made in China or maybe Phillipines or do you wish you could pay twice as much for that jacket made by American union labor, making perhpaps 3 times what the teenager in Asia gets?

Most everyone is a patriot until it comes time to pay for it. For the most part, products made in the U S are much more expensive, not just slilghtly. Will you or you kids go work a 12 to 15 hour day in a factory for a few $ an hour, and no pension or other benefits?

It's easy to blame Sen. Reid or whomever is not the party that you favor, but how was it for the 12 years that Bush 1 and 2 were in office? Was there any outsourcing then? Is only one side doing it?
How about other countries, are they doing it also? If so , must not be just on Sen. Reid's shoulders.

I too, like to buy American when I can,and sometimes the quality is better.