1.   Agusta was a longtime fixed-wing aircraft builder until stripped of that right after World War II.

2.   Cessna then turned to making corporate jets, said Dave Franson, spokesman for the Wichita, Kan.-based aircraft builder.

3.   Even now, so long after his job disappeared, he thinks of himself as an aircraft builder.

4.   Ignoring the battleground fiercely contested by established commercial aircraft builders, Suharto defended the project as the consummate national morale builder.

5.   In mid-December, Airbus Industrie, the multinational European aircraft builder, announced it would start production of a new class of airliner, the superjumbo.

6.   In the longer term, though, the move also may signal the end of McDonnell Douglas as a commercial aircraft builder.

7.   McDonnell Douglas Corp., the third-biggest aircraft builder in the world, has not yet sold an airplane to General Electric.

8.   The aircraft builder also has mounted a public relations campaign.

9.   Today, personal computers enable home aircraft builders to design their own models.

10.   Although U.S. aircraft builders have to contend with the same market conditions, their labor costs, paid in weak dollars, are comparatively lower.