Talk:Grumman American AA-5

This article received the WikiWings award for May 2005 --Rlandmann 11:43, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Number of aircraft built

"All told, 3,282 AA-5s and AG-5s were produced by the five manufacturers between 1971 and 2005."
Are you sure? Let's count: "834 Travelers had been produced when production of this model ceased in 1975" + "A total of 900 Cheetahs were produced" + "highly successful Tiger design went out of production after 1323 aircraft had been delivered" + " American General produced Tigers for model years 1990-93 and delivered 181 aircraft in that time" + "Between 2001 and 2006 Tiger Aircraft produced 51 AG-5Bs" = 834 + 900 + 1323 + 181 + 51 = 3289, not 3282 aircraft.
And O.K., you may say that "by the five manufacturers" if you count like: American Aviation (1st), Grumman American (2nd), Gulfstream (3rd), American General Aviation Corporation (4th), and Tiger Aircraft (5th), but if you do count so you cannot say as you do that "If True Flight Holdings does put the Tiger into production, they will be the fifth manufacturer to do so" because they would be the sixth manufacturer of the type.193.93.217.17 (talk) 16:28, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

You make a good point on the numbers.  Fixed.

The count of manufacturers all depends on how they are counted. Grumman sold the division to Gulfstream, who just renamed it, so it could be counted as either a new company of the same as the previous one. I think for clarity, though you are right and it should count as five companies to date, not four.  Fixed. - Ahunt (talk) 17:15, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

Certification data

Certification data, such as the minimum and maximum propeller diameter or the maximum structural cruise speed (V_NO), are not aircraft performance specs and don't belong in the specs section. Because Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia and not an airworthiness specification document, we normally don't list these at all, but if it is thought that some of these numbers are particularly unusual or noteworthy for a light aircraft then they could be described in the article text and referenced to the TCDS. In other articles we have done this for unusual certification limitations, such as "airframe life limit".- Ahunt (talk) 13:02, 24 March 2023 (UTC)