The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) issued its Q3 2025 billings and delivery report and the news in the jet segment was very good indeed. Mike Potts takes a closer look.
We are on track for the first 800-unit business jet year since 2019 and, going by the evidence presented in GAMA’s Q3 2025 shipment report, I believe we will exceed 2019’s total of 809 units by a significant margin. Outside of the jet market, results weren’t quite so strong.
Overall, aircraft deliveries for the first nine months of 2025 totaled 2,201 units, an increase of 1.5% over the 2024 Year to Date (YTD) total. These included 554 business jets, 409 turboprops and 1,238 piston-powered airplanes.
The jet total was 10.6% ahead, Year Over Year (YOY) of the 501 units reported in 2024. In contrast, turboprops were off 6.0% from the 435 delivered in 2024 while piston-powered aircraft were up slightly (five units) from 1,233 a year ago.
Billings for the first nine months of 2025 totaled $19.4bn in US dollars, up 13.2% from $17.1bn recorded in 2024.
Business Jet Market Specifics
With revenues up by more than $2bn, you’d naturally assume things must be doing very well in the jet market, but not perhaps as well as you might expect.
Of 10 jet OEMs reporting to GAMA, six enjoyed gains over last year, but three lagged their 2024 performance and one matched it. For Q3 2025 alone, just four OEMs saw positive gains compared to Q3 2024, three were down and three were even. Nonetheless, jet sales are proceeding at a record pace, although there’s been something of a shake-up in the usual order of things.
Textron’s Cessna unit continued to lead the market for jet deliveries, but not by the margin it has enjoyed in the past. Cessna’s YTD total of 123 jets was just four units ahead of its 119 shipments for the same period in 2024. In Q3 alone, Cessna was up by a single unit from 41 to 42.
This article was originally published by AvBuyer on December 15, 2025.