KANSAS, USA - Cessna announced the new SkyCatcher is to be made in China under Shenyang Aircraft Corporation.

Cessna had tied partnership with the China Aviation Industry Corp and Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) while the American company, Cessna, had emphasized that the SkyCatcher will be designed, tested, constructed, and serviced to the same Cessna quality standards.

“The benefit is it enables us to provide the SkyCatcher at a lower price,” Cessna spokeswoman Pia Bergqvist. “We looked at several different facilities in several different countries. This was the one that seemed to make the most sense.”

Cessna officials believes that producing the SkyCatcher in China will save on costs which will keep competitors in the growing light sport aircraft market and aims at pilot training and light recreation flyers.

The company unveiled the single-engine two-seat plane in July saying it expects to begin testing in the first half of 2008 and begin delivering these aircrafts in the second half of 2009. Cessna said that it already has 900 SkyCatchers ordered.