The new Tiger is virtually identical to the ûmodel produced by American General from û1990 to 1993, except for updated avionics.

If a taste for nostalgia could be bottled, labeled and sold, the world of general aviation would be swimming in cash. No other industry has quite the penchant for warming up old products and taking another run at the market with designs that are decades old.

Cirrus and Lancair have broken this mold but Cessna has essentially built its entire piston product line on designs that trace their roots—if not their very type certificates—back to the 1960s, at least. Yet another example of revisited marketing comes in the form of the new Tiger, a sporty four-place design built first by American Aviation, then Grumman-American, then American General and now again by…