Opinion ID: 1451584
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Heading: piper aircraft corporation

Text: Piper Aircraft is engaged in the manufacture of aircraft at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and Vera Beach, Florida, and was the manufacturer of the plane which crashed. In the Rocky Mountain area its products are distributed by three independent corporations: The Atlas Corporation of Denver, which has a dealer in Cheyenne; Piper Montana Distributors of Billings, which services Big Horn Airways of Sheridan and Powell Aviation; Intermountain Piper, Inc., of Salt Lake City, which has a Wyoming dealer in Rock Springs. The total sales in the area during the five-year period from 1967 through 1971 varies from $4,069,152 in 1968 to $1,309,760 in 1967. The amount of its business transactions in 1969, the year of this accident, was $2,703,360. However, there is no way from this record that the amount of sales in this State can be determined, as these figures are for the entire area. The company does advertise its products nationally, supplies newsletters and service bulletins to owners, mechanics, and service centers, and will, if requested, supply any interested party with its newsletters and service bulletins. There were at the time of the hearing 202 registered Piper owners in the State. At the time Moncur purchased his plane from Ox Bow, Ox Bow delivered a bill of sale to Moncur. Piper, sixty-six days after the sale to Moncur, executed an instrument confirming title in Ox Bow, which was delivered to Moncur. There is no showing that Piper had any property in Wyoming or of any direct business activity in this State, nor that Piper ever made any direct sales or deliveries in this State.