RE: Will Lanier still be around
I fly with one of the guys that makes some of their planes (He also makes some ARF's for us). I know he did a run of some of their products very recently because I had to wait for them to finish those before he could do a run of planes for us (Lanier is a bigger customer for him than we are so they get precedence over us).
I think they will still be around for a while. who knows what the future holds when there is a consolidation of manufacturers.