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Cirrus Ramps Up

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Key Takeaways:

  • Cirrus Design secured a $100 million investment from Crescent Capital, giving the Middle Eastern firm approximately 60% ownership and majority board control.
  • This significant funding will enable Cirrus to double production rates, enhance existing SR20/SR22 designs, and explore new features like FADEC, deice, and diesel power.
  • The investment will also allow Cirrus to develop entirely new aircraft designs, including plans for a personal jet, described as a "personal transportation airplane without a propeller."
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||| |—|—| | | | Cirrus Design, maker of the SR20 and SR22 piston singles, got the investment it has been seeking for the past couple of years. Crescent Capital, the U.S. arm of a Middle Eastern investment company, has funneled $100 million into Cirrus, a stake that gives it around 60 percent ownership of the company and three of the five seats on the board of directors.

Cirrus president Alan Klapmeier told Flying that Crescent’s investment will not, however, signal an end to Cirrus’s innovative design approaches. Nor will it appreciably change the decision-making process.

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