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A recent CNN story looks at how the recession and misperceptions about business aviation have devastated business airplane manufacturer Cessna, and also highlights how the resilient company has responded to the crisis and taken steps to emerge as the economy recovers. "The company lost half of its orders, half of its jobs - six thousand in Wichita alone," the CNN story reports, noting that Cessna has used the down-time "to reconsider many manufacturing methods...looking for new ideas, new savings, new efficiencies..." in order to "protect jobs on the ground and planes in the sky." Cessna Aircraft Company CEO Jack Pelton, who serves on the Board of Directors for both NBAA and GAMA, tells CNN: "We said let's go re-examine how we build airplanes and how we can become better at it." View the segment in its entirety.