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Business/Financial

Aerospace Industry Sales May Top $200 Billion This Year, Douglass Says

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Thursday, November 1st, 2007

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Aerospace industry sales may top $200 billion this year, according to John Douglass, the outgoing Aerospace Industries Association president and CEO. That would be a roughly 9 percent advance from last year. Douglass announced last December in his annual industry review and forecast that total 2006 deliveries were estimated at $184 billion, up from a robust $170 billion in 2005, according to AIA numbers. If industry sales reach $200 billion this year, that would beat Douglass's forecast last December, when…

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