The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has released its First Quarter 2025 statistics for aircraft shippings and billings. Results are positive, with double-digit increases in all categories for fixed-wing aircraft compared with Q1 last year.

Turboprops led the charge with a 23.1% jump to 133 aircraft shipped compared with 108 last year. Pistons weren’t far behind, up from 296 deliveries to 353, a 19.3% gain. With business jets rounding out the numbers with an 11% boost (141 deliveries vs. 127 in Q1 last year), total aircraft deliveries increased by 18.1%. But billings, boosted by the pricy bizjet deliveries, increased by a whopping 25.7% to $5.04 billion from $4.01 billion.

The often-volatile helicopter market couldn’t match the double-digit fixed-wing advances but still did well. Pistons edged out turbines with 1.5% (54 deliveries vs. 53 last year) and 1.9% (133 in Q1 2025 vs. 131 for 2024) increases in deliveries, respectively. Billings in the rotorcraft sector edged forward to $769 million from $685 million for the same period last year.