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Cirrus Aircraft named Zean Nielsen, a former senior executive with Tesla Motors, James Hardie and Bang & Olufsen, as its new CEO. Nielsen succeeds Cirrus cofounder Dale Klapmeier, who has stepped back to take a more strategic role with manufacturer, which is the number one producer of high-performance piston airplanes for the general aviation market. […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) last week published its first quarter 2019 aircraft shipment and billings report. Results showed increases across the airplane segments of the industry, but a slowdown in rotorcraft shipments compared to the first quarter of 2018. The piston airplane market led the increase in deliveries at 248 units, a 24.0 […]

The FAA last Friday grounded all Cirrus Vision Jets through an Emergency AD prompted by Cirrus reporting three incidents on Cirrus Model SF50 airplanes of the stall warning and protection system (SWPS) or Electronic Stability & Protection (ESP) System engaging when not appropriate. Over the weekend, Cirrus senior vice president of sales and marketing Ben […]

The FAA on Thursday issued an emergency airworthiness directive (2019-08-51) against the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet that grounds the entire fleet until specified maintenance is performed on the aircraft’s angle of attack indicators. The AD was prompted by three incidents on Cirrus Model SF50 airplanes of the stall warning and protection system (SWPS) or electronic […]

The FAA’s Chicago Aircraft Certification Branch posted an aviation maintenance update late Tuesday for both the Cirrus SR-20 and SR-22 resulting from the investigation into a near-fatal accident at Houston Executive Airport in Katy Texas in May of 2018. The pilot of the Cirrus SR-20 involved in the accident reported shortly after takeoff, that he […]

The Cirrus Life. Now at jet speed. That’s the tagline Cirrus Aircraft created after the market introduction in late 2016 of the SF50 Vision Jet, a product that is positioned as an ideal step-up airplane for a competent owner of a Cirrus SR22 and who already well understands and embraces all that life entails. The […]

Cirrus Aircraft had a very good year. The manufacturer announced yesterday that new aircraft deliveries for the piston SR Series reached 380 in 2018, an increase of 7 percent over 2017, and said increased production and deliveries of the Vision Jet, with 63 delivered last year, resulted in just shy of 100 Vision Jets now […]

Cirrus Aircraft has revealed a 2019 Special Edition SR22T that is as noteworthy for its new look as for what’s included in the price. Each buyer who takes delivery of the $1.124 million airplane, dubbed the Arrivée model (French for “arrive”), will also receive complementary dining for four at a Michelin Starred restaurant and a […]

When Cirrus aircraft began entering the market around the turn of this century, some pundits were certain the new-age, glass-cockpit airplane was just what the industry needed to improve the single-engine safety record. As it turned out, the first decade or so of Cirrus operations were marred by more than a few fatal accidents, despite […]

Cirrus Aircraft wasted little time in giving its engineers the task of enhancing the Collier Trophy-winning single-engine Vision Jet, and the result of that company-wide effort is the Generation 2 version of the SF50 officially unveiled today. The biggest changes to the 2019 G2 iteration of the Vision Jet are the addition of autothrottle to […]