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Dale Klapmeier is stepping down as chief executive officer of Cirrus Aircraft next year, but he will stay on with the company in a senior advisory role, allowing him to focus on “long-term strategic opportunities.” A search is underway for a successor. Klapmeier co-founded Cirrus with his brother Alan in 1984, and led the company […]

With the understanding that building airplanes is just one facet of its overall business, Cirrus Aircraft has launched what it calls Cirrus Services, a division “created to build lifetime relationships with customers by addressing their needs before, during and after initial aircraft ownership,” the company said. The new business unit combines flight training, service and […]

Fresh off its Collier Trophy win this spring, the Cirrus Vision Jet nabbed yet another accolade, this time taking home the 2018 Flying Innovation Award, presented Monday night at Oshkosh. Flying editor-in-chief Stephen Pope handed over the Innovation Award trophy to Cirrus Aircraft senior vice president of product development Ken Harness, who accepted it on […]

As we do at the end of each year, the editors of Flying have compiled a list of the most important, compelling and industry-shaping news stories to emerge in the preceding 12 months. As always, the year was jam-packed with major news stories, from the political battles that gripped Washington to new airplane introductions and […]

An anonymous bidder who offered $2.615 million last Friday was named the winner of Sporty’s Vision Jet auction at AirVenture, a partnership idea between the world-famous pilot shop and Cirrus Aircraft. Sporty’s offered its early delivery position of a Cirrus Vision Jet with a plan to hand over any dollar amount above the airplane’s $1,927,653 […]

In the first program of its kind, Cirrus Aircraft is offering up to three days of training to anyone who buys a Cirrus airplane, even a used plane purchased through a private transaction. The goal of the Cirrus Embark program, launched yesterday, is to improve the Cirrus safety record even further. Since Cirrus launched its […]

Only rarely does a benchmark airplane come along that demands the creation of an entirely new category in which to place it, one that shatters conventional thinking with radical leaps in design and operating efficiency. The SF50 Vision Jet from Cirrus Aircraft is one of these uncommon airplanes. As such, the typical spin around the […]

“Only rarely does a benchmark airplane come along that demands the creation of an entirely new category in which to place it, one that shatters conventional thinking with radical leaps in design and operating efficiency.” That’s just the first sentence of our review of the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet in the July issue of Flying, […]

Lufthansa Airlines is the latest company to take advantage of Cirrus Aircraft‘s SR series for its training program. This week, Cirrus announced that Lufthansa Aviation Training purchased 25 SR20s for its facility in Goodyear, Arizona, where pilots have trained for decades in the favorable desert weather. In addition to Lufthansa’s pilots, airlines like Swiss Air, […]

The Cirrus Vision Jet is one of those rare airplanes that doesn’t fit neatly into any established category. Priced at around $2 million, it burns half the fuel of light jets that cost twice as much, and sells for less than even single-engine turboprops that don’t fly as high or as fast. Then there’s the […]