Deliveries, Billing Down Across The Board GAMA has released worldwide aircraft shipment and billing figures for the first half of 2016, and the news is not pretty. Industry airplane shipments declined 4.5 percent to 970 units, and airplane billings fell 11 percent from $10.4 billion to $9.3 billion. Rotorcraft shipments also dropped 16.1 percent, from 467 units during the same period a year ago to 392 units in 2016. Billings for rotorcraft fell 32.5 percent, from $2.1 billion to $1.4 billion.
Source: aero newsGAMA Publishes 2016 Second Quarter Aircraft Shipment Data