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April 10, 2019

We Fly The Cirrus Vision Jet Generation 2
A couple of big improvements make the latest single-engine jet from Cirrus a whole new experience.

On the ramp in the mist, the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet, which many still call the “Cirrus Jet,” is a figure of some mystery. When I posted a photo on my Facebook page of the plane viewed from the rear, its distinctive V-tail prominent, a friend asked if it was a “Bugatti.” Now, the Bugatti, more »
January 22, 2019

We Fly The Cirrus Vision Jet Generation 2
A couple of big improvements make the latest single-engine jet from Cirrus a whole new experience.
Cirrus Vision Jet Generation 2

Several upgrades to the Cirrus Vision Jet Generation 2 make the latest single-engine jet a whole new experience.

May 24, 2018

The State Of The Art And The Unlikely Rise Of Cirrus Aircraft

Are you an aviation enthusiast or pilot? Sign up for our newsletter, full of tips, reviews and much more! When Cirrus Aircraft launched its G6 model last January, I was impressed, and I’m not the kind of pilot to get easily impressed by an SR22. But the G6 was something different. Even with many of its more »
July 18, 2017

Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet
An epic flight in the first truly personal jet

Up where we were, it was smooth, cruising along at Flight Level 270, Utah’s Painted Desert, swaths of reds, browns and golds panning behind us as we flew. Just like the light, we were, as they say, golden, with pilots in other planes at altitudes both below us and above squawking nonstop about the rough more »
May 26, 2017

We Fly The Cirrus Jet: Five Surprising Takeaways

You’ll be reading a lot about the Cirrus Jet (officially, the SF50 Vision Jet) in the weeks and months to come, but nowhere except in Plane & Pilot will you read the real story behind the story. Look for our coverage of this remarkable little jet in our upcoming August issue. And for now, a quick more »
January 19, 2017

G6: We Fly It First
Perspective+: Brand-new Garmin glass for 2017

When visions of glass cockpits dance in our heads, we personal aviation pilots usually think of the Garmin G1000 avionics suite, which for more than 15 years has been the de facto standard avionics package in the vast majority of new production Part 23 light planes. With the introduction of its best-selling SR22 G6 high-performance more »
January 5, 2017

Sneak Peek: We Fly The Cirrus SR22 G6!
The latest SR22 is fast and slick like its predecessor, but it sports an impressive addition.

The SR22 is the most produced light plane in the world, and many of Cirrus’s sales are to return customers. Cirrus is just really good at adding enough new features to its latest models that a lot of existing Cirrus owners find they just have to upgrade to get the latest cool stuff. The G6 more »
April 23, 2013

Down & Dirty
The Cirrus SR22 tries out the Idaho backcountry and redefines airplane camping

How would the fancy SR22 perform on a mountain strip, dueling in the dirt with more rugged distant cousins?
April 24, 2012

Cirrus SR22 GTS: The Perfect Plane?
Why Cirrus Aircraft’s successful single might be the ultimate cross-country machine

Some aircraft change the game. Looking back, designs like the Cessna 172, the Beechcraft Bonanza, Piper Cub, Mooney M20 and a handful of others have changed the way aviators—and outsiders—perceive general aviation.
April 26, 2011

2011 Cirrus SR22T: Commemorating 10 Years Of GA Innovation
Cirrus refines the SR22T with a 2011 Limited Edition

It’s hard to believe it has been 10 years since Cirrus launched the SR22. It’s doubtful that many people had any idea that, from its humble beginnings in 1984, the company that brothers Alan and Dale Klapmeier built would produce what would become the world’s best-selling single-engine piston aircraft.
March 1, 2011

Cirrus Merges With CAIGA
The pioneering aircraft maker to be acquired by a Chinese company

In a milestone development, Cirrus Industries Inc. officials announced on Feb 28th that Cirrus Aircraft will be sold to China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co. (CAIGA).
July 20, 2010

Cirrus SR22T: Turbo Without the STC
Cirrus Design now offers a turbocharged model with a factory Continental

Has it really been a full decade since Alan and Dale Klapmeier introduced the first version of the airplane that would eventually conquer the general aviation world?
April 21, 2009

A New Cirrus With A New Boss
Flight Into Known Icing is added to the SR22
cirrusWorking under the code name “Project Kiwi,” Duluth, Minn.–based Cirrus Design has been laboring over the last 20 months in relative secrecy to certify its first FAA-approved Flight Into Known Icing (FIKI) system on its flagship aircraft, the SR22.

May 20, 2008

Cirrus Perspective
A Garmin-based glass-cockpit revelation
cirrusWhen the engineers at Cirrus Skunk Works branded the company’s Garmin-based, next-generation glass-panel system, Codename Fighter, the moniker was more apropos than they might have thought.

January 1, 2008

Cirrus SR22-G3: Brazil Or Bust!
After our first flight in the newest Cirrus over San Francisco, we couldn’t wait to fly one all the way to Brazil

cirrus sr22-g3Wow, now that’s a lot of trees. I’m 9,500 feet over the Amazon rain forest, and the only thing I see from horizon to horizon is a bumpy carpet that’s toned British-racing green. A couple days ago, I set off from the Cirrus plant in Duluth, Minn., for what was then a distant port, pointing the nose of this spanking-new Cirrus SR22-G3 south and saying to myself, as I climbed to my initial cruise altitude, “São Paulo or bust.”
December 1, 2004

Cirrus SR22-G2
The Klapmeiers’ vision enters the second generation
cirrusFor those of you who haven’t heard, Cessna was just recently dethroned as one of the top-selling general-aviation companies in the world. For the first two quarters of this year, the total number of Cessna Skyhawks and Skylanes was bested by Cirrus Design’s combination of SR20 as well as SR22 sales. In fact, the vast majority of Cirrus’ sales came from its showpiece, the new SR22-G2.

September 1, 2004

The Cirrus SR22-G2
The evolution continues in the Monument Valley

cirrusThe Navajo Indians believe that everything has its own rhythm, its own beat, its own time to birth, to flourish, to change, to adapt. That’s how the land and its native people originated, they say. The story goes that the world began in darkness, but the people weren’t happy in that place. They gradually moved up through three more worlds before coming to where they are now, a sacred land known as the Monument Valley.

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