An ongoing challenge for Mooney is to make an older factory more efficient.

By Coy Jacob

Like high-dollar annuals and premature overhauls, factory bankruptcies seem to be a fact of life in the world of GA manufacturing. With few exceptions, every major brand has faded into Chapter 11 at least once or, at the least, taken a production hiatus, only to re-emerge with new owners, new promises but, alas, often the same old product. …