We are especially thankful to Rob and Pat Moler as well as Barrett Brummett for the use of their airplanes in our display area, as well as to SNF Acro Chairman Jim Taylor for his assistance.

It almost goes without saying that there are literally thousands of people who have to do a lot of hard work every year to make an event like Sun 'N Fun happen, and though we can't thank each of them individually and personally, if you are one of these fine folks, please accept a heartfelt THANK YOU from our entire organization for your work. Sun 'N Fun is truly an enjoyable and worthwhile event, and we have a great appreciation and admiration for those folks who give back to the aviation community by helping to make it happen. You guys and gals have again done an excellent job and we had a truly enjoyable and productive time. Though it's a long, hard, and tiring week in so many ways, it's also an energizing, educational, and wonder-filled week as well. We're tired, but it's that good kind of tired. We are already looking forward to next year... SNF 2006 will be here before you know it, and we bet it's going to be even better!

Attendance was fairly good throughout the week... though the numbers have been down a bit since 9/11, all in all the industry has clearly regained its strength and is continually improving even more. While we don't directly manufacture personal jets, light sport aircraft, or various other types of aircraft whose potential and popularity are exploding, these things are definitely helping us and everyone else in the general aviation industry. The Sport Pilot rule, the dawning age of less-expensive executive/corporate transportation, and to some extent even the realization that some of the post-9/11 aviation policies did more harm than good are all coming together into a tangible renewal of General Aviation. Yes, there are many wolves howling at our door: the industry-killing threat of user fees, the crumbling aviation infrastructure, the myriad of mis-guided security policies, the pop-up, permanent, and commercially-purchased TFRs, idiotic press reports slandering aviation, the rising costs of aviation in general, etc. While it would be easy to get down about these things, we believe that they can and will be dealt with appropriately by the aviation community. We're quite optimistic that these issues can legitimately be seen as the growing pains that must be dealt with by a thriving industry, and industry that's moving rapidly forward and not looking back. SNF seems to back that belief up... there's a whole lot of good news right now in the aviation world and a lot of momentum. It's a good time to be an aviator.

See you in Oshkosh!